THE LEFT LANE
Better brown-bagging
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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"Healthy Lunchbox: The Working Mom's Guide to Keeping You and Your Kids Trim" (LifeLine Press, August 2003, $19.95) includes a top-10 fun lunch ideas section with such tips as: Make a theme lunch that matches a country or state they're studying, send favorite leftovers or foods that all begin with the same letter (pizza, plum, pretzels and pudding).
Kiddie IDs offered
In less than five minutes, parents can take one more step to protect their children.
The Pearl Harbor Masonic Lodge and Masonic Charities in Hawai'i will offer a free child identification program — with digital photograph and fingerprints printed on a card — 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Longs Drug Stores in Mililani Town Center, Windward City Shopping Center and Kamehameha Shopping Center.
The service will also be offered from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 23 at Longs Drugs in Kailua, Pearl City and at Manoa Marketplace; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 30 at Longs in Salt Lake Shopping Center, 'Ewa Beach and Kaimuki. For details: 373-7867.
The mob movement
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| About 100 people took off their shoes at a "flash mob" event on one of the main drags of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Case in point: Recently about 200 people, mostly in their 20s and 30s, crowded into the card section of the Harvard Coop bookstore, pretending to look for a card for "Bill."
On cue, they burst into spontaneous applause.
Hence, the latest craze. It's "flash mob," wherein a crowd, organized by e-mail lists and Web sites, converges at a pre-arranged location and performs a wacky, harmless stunt for a few minutes in public.
The crowd then abruptly disappears, leaving bystanders befuddled.
Centennial concert
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Doors open at 1 p.m. at the Hawai'i Theatre, and the music runs from 2 to 5 p.m. Tickets are $30-$45. Call the box office at 528-0506.
