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Posted on: Sunday, November 9, 2008

5-day coffee festival offers tours, parade, contests, concert

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

The Kona Coffee Cultural Festival Grand Parade is set for Saturday, on the Big Island.

Photo courtesy of Kona Coffee Cultural Festival

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Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

JEFF CHIU | Associated Press

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Kona's celebration of all things coffee brews up this week with the 38th anniversary of the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival. The annual Gevalia Kona Cupping Competition — a festival highlight — kicks off Wednesday; on Thursday judges will select the finest Kona coffee of 2008. Visitors get to sample the brews while learning how to critique a high-quality winner.

Events and workshops are planned along the Kona Coffee Belt through Nov. 16, such as a recipe contest that gives amateurs, culinary students and professional chefs an opportunity to enter stellar creations using gourmet Kona coffee plus tours of working and historical coffee farms and a festival parade on Saturday. The Kona Coffee Concert in the Park at 4 p.m. Nov. 16 wraps up the event. 808-326-7820, www.konacoffeefest.com.

— Chris Oliver

SAN FRANCISCO

YVES SAINT LAURENT FASHIONS SPOTLIGHTED IN DE YOUNG EXHIBIT

What makes a frock rock? A new exhibit celebrates the work of visionary designer Yves Saint Laurent in a retrospective at San Francisco's de Young museum that opened this month. The designer died this year at age 71.

"We think that he is the great modern master and that his voice was unique and singular among many," said John Buchanan, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which include the de Young.

Bathed in soft light, the clothes are displayed on mannequins grouped together in a manner of people at a very well-dressed party.

In addition to 130 outfits, the show includes sketches by the designer, accessories, audio recordings and video of Saint Laurent's last show in Paris in 2002. "Yves Saint Laurent" is through April 5 at the de Young Museum, in Golden Gate Park. 415-750-3600. www.famsf.org/deyoung.

— Associated Press

HONOLULU

BISHOP MUSEUM ON FROMMER'S LIST OF EARMARKED TOURIST SITES

Government earmarks — those little bits of local color stuck onto federal funding bills — have been much in the news this election season. Tourist attractions are only a tiny percentage of the earmarking going on in the U.S. — well under $100 million out of $18 billion — but after poking into the huge earmark database run by

Citizens Against Government Waste, Frommer's found plenty of federally funded sites not to miss, including our own Bishop Museum. Here's their take:

"Not only does this multibuilding museum have the world's greatest collection of natural and cultural artifacts from Hawaii and the Pacific, but recently it has added a terrific new 16,500-square-foot Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center, specializing in volcanology, oceanography and biodiversity." The main hall is undergoing renovation to update its 19th-century look with high-tech, 21st-century exhibits using money from the state and private donors.

— Advertiser staff