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Posted on: Monday, February 2, 2004

THE LEFT LANE
'Mas' at Iolani School

Advertiser Staff and News Services

David "Mas" Matsumoto is a hero in "real food/slow food" circles, author of the elegiac "Epitaph for a Peach," an award-winning and eye-opening book about his efforts to rescue a particular, succulent peach variety, and along with it a style of farming and a way of life. Matsumoto, who continues to work his family's organic farm in Fresno, Calif., is in the Islands to share his life and his writing with students at Iolani School.

He's been featured in numerous magazine articles and on a PBS TV series on California farming. A frequent keynote speaker, he'll give a free public talk, "A Taste of Mas," at 7 p.m. Tomorrow at Iolani's Seto Hall, followed by a book-signing. Parking is available by entering the Kamoku Street parking garage. Information: 943-2383.

Cynical sweets

So your heart's not all aflutter this Valentine's Day?

Cynics rule online on sites such as www.miccah.com/xiaoxin/lie.htm ("dedicated to the brokenhearted, the single" and the celibate), as well as www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Bay/9010 (home of the "I hate Valentine's Day because..." page).

If you're really feeling bitter, you can always go to a Web site called freestuff.bansheeweb.com/letter.html and fill in the blanks of the "Love/Lust/Loser letter." It generates an, um, "love" note based on your choices.

Spiritual guides

Amber Tamblyn

This week's TV Guide notes in a headline, "spiritual matters suddenly matter," and channel-surfing is finding a heavenly being at plenty of clicks on the dial. Beyond "Joan of Arcadia," whose star, Amber Tamblyn, not only graces the magazine's cover but also was nominated for a Golden Globe, there's "Dead Like Me" on Showtime, "Six Feet Under" on HBO and "Tru Calling," on Fox, all with otherworldly issues.

Granted, none are overtly denominational in spirituality, but suddenly, higher powers are hot.

Still, one can't help but wonder, perhaps "Joan" star Tamblyn could have used some divine intervention at the recent Golden Globes? She lost to Frances Conroy of "Six Feet Under."

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