Eat out today for Oahu Dines and you'll be helping people who are battling HIV/AIDS. Restaurants include 12th Avenue Grill, Le Guignol Restaurant, Wedding Café (right), Spices, Town, JJ Bistro & French Pastry, Volcano Joe's, Wally Ho's Garage and Grill, and nine other eateries that will donate 20 percent of the proceeds earned today to Life Foundation, Hawai'i's AIDS organization. Platinum Plate sponsors Big City Diner, Boots & Kimo's Homestyle Kitchen, Chai's Island Bistro, Diamond Head Market and Grill and Tiki's Grill & Bar have pledged a minimum $1,500. For all participating restaurants, see www.oahudines.org. Bon appetit.

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FREE CLASS

VIDEO GAMES, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS

Are video games an art form? The University of Hawai'i's Academy for Creative Media is hosting a free master class with University of Wisconsin-Madison professor James Paul Gee, who will talk about that in "Stories in Video Games: Toward a New Art Form" from 3 to 4:30 p.m. today at Kuykendall Hall, room 410. It's open to the public. Gee, the author of "Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul," will also "argue that a key to how to deal with narrative in video games can come from work on human thinking and problemsolving in cognitive psychology," he said in a written statement. Information: www.hawaii.edu/acm.

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FINAL WORD

"I feel bad for the people dancing in between (the presentations)."

Peter Sarsgaard | the actor, overheard at the Academy Awards on Sunday, in USA Today