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In celebration of the Korean centennial in Hawai'i, the literary journal Bamboo Ridge plans a special issue featuring the writing of Korean Americans born, raised or living in Hawai'i, and they're seeking contributors now through Aug. 31.

Guest editors for the issue are Nora Okja Keller, Brenda Kwon, Sun Nam Kung, Gary Pak and Cathy Song. Accepted: up to seven poems or songs or up to three prose pieces (plays, short stories, essays, memoirs, fiction or nonfiction) for a total of 15 pages maximum. Also, historical writings dating back to 1903. Send to Bamboo Ridge Press, PO Box 61781, Honolulu, HI 96839-1781 with self-addressed, stamped envelope for a reply. Manuscripts will not be returned.

Planning on chowing down at this summer's Hawai'i State Farm Fair? When you're done with all those bur-gers, hot dogs and candied apples, you might want to stretch out those sticky fingers and pick up a copy of a walking and fitness fun map by Kaho-'omiki (Hawaii Council on Physical Activity).

The maps, collected in a fold-up pamphlet, offer detailed directions for a host of walk-, run-, and skate-friendly routes around O'ahu.

They'll be available at the state Department of Health's "Start Living Healthy" booth at the fair. The Farm Fair runs on consecutive weekends (Fridays through Sundays) July 19-Aug. 4 at the Aloha Stadium parking lot.

No more Lava Rock

Lava Rock, the alternative rock format on KAHA (105.9 FM) has bitten the dust.

On Wednesday, the radio station launched a temporary all-American music rotation, to tie in with the Fourth of July holiday, but a new musical format is expected to be launched this evening. Tip: If you like oldies, you'll probably like the "new" sound.

Most of us don't spend time wondering what the president would look like in his underwear. But that is the way he is depicted in Dover Publications' re-release of "George W. Bush and His Family Paper Dolls" (2001).

It's hard not to smile when you see him, a two-dimensional president, the leader of a superpower, wearing nothing but his white undershirt, white briefs and black cowboy boots stamped with a design in the shape of Texas.

What was artist Tom Tierney thinking? "Underwear has been chosen as the basic clothing for the dolls," he writes. The book, along with its release of Americana stickers, postcards and temporary tattoos, is designed to celebrate the birth of the nation and reflect its "humor and spirit."

"George W. Bush and His Family Paper Dolls" (Dover Publications, $5.95) is now available online from www.doverpublications.com and at bookstores.