THE LEFT LANE
For women's health
Advertiser Staff and News Services
September in Hawai'i has been proclaimed Women's Health Month, and to mark it, a Women's Health Month Fair is sponsored by the state Commission on the Status of Women. The free fair, this year titled "Celebrate Women: A Healthy Discovery," will be held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 21 at Kapi'olani Community College. The Pacific Blast will be there; the women's football team has invited women of all ages to come work out from 11 to 11:45 a.m.
Dress comfortably, wear exercise shoes, and bring a towel and your curiosity. For more information on the Commission, check out www.state.hi.us/hscsw.
More Bad Religion
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| Bad Religion will perform a concert on Oct. 10 at the World Cafe.
Advertiser library photo • Aug. 25, 1999 |
Bad Religion's popularity has cooled since its late '80s heyday, but the So-Cal-based band continues to churn out discs full of chunky, no-frills hard core for its dedicated fan base. And as a bonus, back with the six-member band since last summer is founding guitarist Brett Gurewitz, who left in 1994 to guide his much-respected punk label, Epitaph.
Tickets, at $20 each, go on sale Saturday at Tower Records, Cheapo Music, 808 Skate Kailua, the UH-Manoa Campus Center, the World Cafe, Foodland stores and all military ticket outlets. Call 526-4400.
More music news: Indie-rock "buzz" band Dashboard Confessional is touting a Nov. 5 concert at the World Cafe on its Web site, www.dashboardconfessional.com. No other information is available yet, but we'll let you know.
'Sopranos' thinks big
Don't bet the clubhouse yet, but odds are that "The Sopranos" will hit the big screen after its TV run.
"I think there's a real good possibility we'll do it," says Brad Grey, executive producer of HBO's smash mob drama. "We're having really serious conversations. I think we're getting close."
Since the first season of "Sopranos," "we've been approached by pretty much every major (film) studio," Grey says. Warner Bros. will get first dibs, "because it's all in the family." (AOL Time Warner owns HBO.)
Creatively, "there's a way to continue these characters and have them grow in a new form," Grey says. "David (series creator David Chase) and I just met to talk it through."
Production on the movie wouldn't begin until after the fifth — and final — season, Grey says. Shooting on those episodes is to start next February, with a September '03 debut.
A call for tolerance
A group of Hollywood producers and studio executives has released the first in a series of public service announcements reaching out to the Arab community.
The 90-second spot, distributed recently to international television networks, features Olympian hurdler Nawal el Moutawakel-Bennis of Morocco.
The voice-over, in English and Arabic, is a general message urging tolerance in a world that changed since the Sept. 11 attacks and touting sports as a way to "eradicate so many barriers and so many taboos."
It doesn't mention the United States or terrorism.
The ad was made as part of a larger entertainment industry effort to aid the war on terrorism.
