It's the largest sake-tasting event outside of Japan. It visits only three cities. And tonight, Honolulu hosts it for a sixth time.

Joy of Sake at the Hawai'i Convention Center from 6 to 8:30 p.m. will feature more than 250 sakes from this year's fall collection, along with appetizers from 13 city restaurants. Included in the tasting will be the gold and silver award winners from this year's U.S. National Sake Appraisal. Brewers from Japan will be on hand to explain the variations between their daiginjo, ginjo and junmai selections.

Tickets are $65 at Fujioka's Wine & Spirits, Marukai Wholesale Mart or www.joyofsake.com.

— Derek Paiva

LEARN ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, CORAL REEF DISTRESS

Islands will be among the earliest victims of climate change — island states such as Vanuatu know it and have been lobbying the United Nations for years to strengthen climate change agreements like the Kyoto Protocol (still not ratified by the U.S.).

According to The Hawai'i Conservation Alliance, most reef areas have only a few years before most of the remaining corals die of overheating, and many of the richest fisheries areas are seeing changes that will cause the food chain to collapse.

At 7:30 tonight, Thomas J. Goreau, president of Global Coral Reef Alliance, talks about "Global Warming and the Future of Coral Reefs" — and offers solutions. At the Hawai'i Convention Center, Lili'u Room 310. Free.

— Lesa Griffith

FINAL WORD

"If you're not betting on me, then nobody should get money. I've made profit a mathematical certainty."

M. Night Shyamalan | director of "Lady in the Water", on how even his flops make money, in Time magazine