Loose Screws, Honolulu's best- known improvisation comedy group, will mark its 14th anniversary with a performance at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Kumu Kahua Theatre. On The Spot will be a guest act. The Val-Day bill will showcase Loose Screws' mix of fast-clipped mini plays, taking relationship cues from the audience. It's Loose Screws' last Island show before it performs its acclaimed "Screwbuki" on Friday and Saturday at the Seattle Improv Festival. Tickets: $10 at the door or by phone, 536-4441.


— Advertiser staff

ARCHITECTURE

BIG ISLAND'S EXEMPLARY EDIFICE

To celebrate its 150th anniversary, The American Institute of Architects held a poll to find out America's favorite architecture, and the Big Island's Mauna Kea Beach Hotel came in 55th. The resort, which opened in 1965, won an AIA Honor Award in 1967. It's currently closed because of damage from October's earthquakes. The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel joins such architecture icons as New York's Empire State Building (No. 1) and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin (30) in Spring Green, Wis., and other hotels such as Miami's Delano Hotel (39) and Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego (18). For the complete list, see www.aia150.org.

— Advertiser staff

FINAL WORD

"Everyone's like the rest. That's why they're 'the rest.' "

The Invisible Man | a character played by Christopher Eccleston in the NBC show "Heroes"