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Posted on: Monday, February 9, 2004

THE LEFT LANE
Surfers ride success

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Laird Hamilton

Variety is reporting that Laird Hamilton, the surfing great whose "Riding Giants" created a buzz at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, is setting up his own production company called BamMan Productions, with offices in Malibu — and on Maui.

Look for feature and IMAX films about the surf culture for a mass audience from Hamilton and partner Dave Kalama, another surfer. Yes, they plan to produce.

Entangled in haiku

My hair entangled
In your lei of pikake
Do not unknot it

— Glenda Young, Honolulu

Calling all poets: The Valentine's Day haiku contest is back at Nohea Gallery.

For the third year running, the gallery will award prizes for prose composed in the Japanese style of 17 syllables divided 5-7-5, written in the present tense and creating emotion with its imagery.

First-place winners in each category ("Most Romantic," "Most Humorous," or "17 years and younger") will receive a gift certificate for $50. Second-place winners will receive a cast glass heart.

Entries must be received at either Nohea Gallery at Ward Warehouse or Ward Centre by 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. Please include your name, address and phone numbers. (Only G-rated entries will be accepted.) Prizes will be awarded on Valentine's Day.

For information, call 596-0074.

Straight-guy music

Slovenly straight guys, listen up! The chances of the Fab 5 sidling up to your Mililani homestead in their gargantuan black SUV are probably about as slim as Carson Kressley's tolerance for department-store couture. But the boys can do something about your stereo. "What's That Sound?" is the first in a series of CDs featuring music approved for heterosexual use by the "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" guys. It's out tomorrow.

Featuring a mix heavy on club-ready tracks by Basement Jaxx, Kylie Minogue, Liz Phair, Sting, and Junior Senior, the CD also contains a CD-ROM video of the "Queer Eye" theme "All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)" by Widelife.

Our favorite track? A mash-up of Fischerspooner's "Emerge" and Billy Squier's "Everybody Wants You." Even "Queer Eye" food and wine connoisseur Ted Allen might describe that combo as the shiitake.

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