Posted on: Tuesday, February 8, 2005

TGI Monday

Advertiser Staff

The indicates admission is $5 or less, or free. Full-price admission is listed; the * denotes discounts (or free) for students, seniors, military, members and/or children, or advance purchases. Call the venue for details.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Mardi Gras 2005, with New Orleans jazz, Southern blues, zydeco, Cajun cooking, 5:30 p.m., Aloha Tower Marketplace and restaurants; free. 566-2337.

5th Annual Nu'uanu Mardi Gras Block Party, with entertainment, New Orleans cuisine, "liquid tents" and costume contest, 6:30-10 p.m., Nu'uanu Avenue; free.

MIXED BAG

Pearl Harbor Action Figures Signing and Public Talk-Story, with USS Arizona survivor Donald G. Stratton, 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center; talk-story sessions, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.; continues Thursday, and Feb. 12, 13, 15 and 16; free admission (action figure $29.95). 422-5664.

"Beaten, Twisted, Flowing: Creating in the Diaspora," seminar with poet, artist and costume designer Rosanna Raymond, noon, UH-Manoa, Korean Studies Center auditorium; free. 956-7700.

ONE-TIME GIGS

Darrell Aquino, 4-7 p.m., Mai Tai Bar, Ala Moana Center; also Hot Rain, 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. 947-2900.

Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Celebration, with jazz band, go-go dancers and beads, 4:30 p.m.-4 a.m., Ocean Club; 23 and older. 531-8444.

Mardi Gras Madness Festival, with mudbug boil, New Orleans Jazz and Zanuck Lindsey and Friends, 5:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Gordon Biersch; free. 599-4877.

Mardi Gras, with Inoa'ole and Son Caribe, 6 p.m.-12:30 a.m., Kapono's. 536-2161.

Mardi Gras, with the Chris Vandercook Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Dixie Grill, 'Aiea. 485-2722.

Mardi Gras, with JP Smoketrain and Dominic Leonard, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Dixie Grill, Ward Avenue. 596-8359.

Dean Taba's New CD Release, with Dean Taba, Noel Okimoto, Tim Tsukiyama and Rich Crandall, 8 p.m., Studio 6. 596-2905.

Tiki Malua Experience, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., O'Toole's Irish Pub. 536-4138.

DANCE VENUES

Hot Latin Tuesdays, salsa, merengue and reggaeton, 8 p.m.-3 a.m., Zanzabar Night Club; free salsa lesson, 8-9 p.m.; 18 and older. 924-3939.

DJ Dancin' Adam, 9 p.m.-4 a.m., Nashville Waikiki; country dancing from 4 p.m. 926-7911.

Pussycat Lounge, with Mardi Gras, 9 p.m.-4 a.m., Wave Waikiki; 21 and older. 941-0424.

The Bounce, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., 260 Lewers St.; 21 and older. 923-0202.

Bombasstic Tuesdays, with DJs Sandman and Mixmaster B, 10 p.m.-4 a.m., Pipeline Cafe; 21 and older. 589-1999.

Tipsy Tuesdays, hip-hop and R&B, 10 p.m.-4 a.m., Venus Nightclub; 21 and older. 951-8671.

DJ Marz, 2-4 a.m., Fusion Waikiki. 924-2422.

CLUBS

Thirsty Tuesdays, open-mike comedy, 8-9 p.m., and open-mike jams, 9 p.m.-midnight, Onstage Drinks and Grinds. 306-7799.

Stardust, with Rocky Brown, John Valentine and Brian Robertshaw, 7:30-10:30 p.m., Sheraton Waikiki hotel, Hanohano Room. 922-4422.

Imai and Friends, 8 p.m.-midnight, Coconut Willy's. 923-9454.

Top 40 Tuesdays, with DJs Rene and Romero, 9 p.m., Hula's Bar & Lei Stand. 923-0669.

Country Western Dancing, with Charlie Garrett, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Panama Hattie's. 485-8226.

The Newjass Quartet, New York-style jazz, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., thirtyninehotel; 21 and older. 599-2552.