ISLAND HOPPING
Decorative bowls include food
Eat the noodles, keep the bowl at the Sixth Annual Cool Fusion: The Festival of 1000 Bowls, Aug. 25 at the Donkey Mill Art Center in Holualoa on Hawaii Island.
A $20 donation buys lunch of Japanese somen in a handmade pottery bowl that you get to take home. Entertainment is by slack-key artist John Keawe.
The event is from noon to 3 p.m. on the center’s lawn. Proceeds benefit the center’s ceramics program.
Call 322-3362 or visit www.donkeymillartcenter.org.
Get new Volcanoes Park quarter
The Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park quarter will be available for the first time at a public ceremony and coin exchange from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 29 at the park.
The new coin is part of the America the Beautiful Quarters program.
A day in advance, on Aug. 28, the park holds a coin forum as part of its After Dark in the Park program. The event starts at 7 p.m. in the Kilauea Visitor Center.
Both events are free.
GLOBE TROTTING
McGraw, Hill play Vegas together
LAS VEGAS » Country music power couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are heading to Las Vegas.
They will be doing a 10-weekend run of shows at The Venetian starting Dec. 7. The show is called "Soul2Soul," named after their hugely successful co-headlining tours in 2000 and 2006. The Vegas shows will mark the first time in six years that McGraw and Hill have performed a full concert together in the United States.
Handbill rule targets sidewalk smut
LAS VEGAS » Officials have adopted an anti-littering ordinance aimed at cleaning semipornographic ads from Las Vegas Strip sidewalks.
Clark County commissioners unanimously approved a rule last week that makes handbillers responsible when people toss their ads to the ground.
The ordinance calls for cleanup every 15 minutes within a 25-foot radius of the handbiller.
Commissioners have been considering ways to spruce up the tourist district, where portions of the sidewalk and streets are covered with business card-size ads for escort services. Handbillers often slap the cards against their hands and push them toward passers-by.
Fans nominate best of Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. » Connecticut tourism officials say Facebook fans have made their favorite tourism destinations known.
The Mark Twain House, New England Air Museum, Connecticut Historical Society and Coventry Regional Farmer’s Market are among 160 destinations that Connecticut’s fans say best represent the state’s brand celebrating the Revolutionary War and Industrial Revolution.
More than 1,800 nominations were registered. Fans of Connecticut on Facebook can vote through Aug. 20 for their favorite among the top 10 in a Facebook poll.
Others among the top 10 destinations and attractions nominated by residents and visitors are Curtain Call Inc., the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Hartford Stage, Hill-Stead Museum, Levitt Pavilion and Westport Country Playhouse.
