THE LEFT LANE
Museum seminars go from bugs to boatmen

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The free seminars are offered at 4 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the museum's Paki Conference Room. Upcoming seminars include "Something About Beetles: Hawai'i and Beyond," with Allan Samuelson (pictured above) on April 13, and "I Ka Moana Lipolipo, Into the Vast Ocean: Hawaiian Seamen on American Whaling Vessels," with Susan Lebo on May 8.

For more information, call 847-3511.

Pop-punkers Sum 41 perform here May 5

Formed in Ajax, Ontario, out of sheer, high school boredom, the foursome's 2001 debut CD "All Killer No Filler" was a multimillion-selling smash. And with the "All Killer" single "Fat Lip," a Blink-182-by-way-of-Beastie-Boys No. 1 hit, Sum 41 hit something of a punk-pop pinnacle.

Last year's follow-up CD "Does This Look Infected?" didn't sell as well, but "Still Waiting" was a radio hit. Tickets for the 7 p.m., all-ages show go on sale tomorrow for $20 at the Blaisdell Center box office, UH Campus Center, Pearl Harbor's Bloch Arena, MWR Kunia and all Foodland stores. Buy tickets by phone at (877) 750-4400, or at www.ticketmaster.com.

Humane society needs some fluffies for Fido

You can drop off towels at the Hawaiian Humane Society, 2700

Wai'alae Ave., at the incoming-animals desk (closest to the freeway). It's open 24 hours a day. The humane society has a wish list for other donations at www.hawaiianhumane.org. (And if you live on another island, towels are a need shared by all such agencies.)