Thanks to the efforts of some very enthusiastic — and charismatic — individuals, O'ahu is in the grips of a rhythm from a world away. Six nights a week, there are salsa dance parties happening in Honolulu. Go to Metromix, www.honolulu.metromix.com, to find out where you get in on this action.

NEW SHOW

CHO RETURNS TO TV ON VH1

Comedian Margaret Cho is making another stab at television — "The Cho Show" premieres on VH1 at 8 tonight (repeating at 9:30). Her last experience with ABC was not so successful. "It was very difficult, and one of the things that I remembered was after I did my first screen test, one executive freaked out and said, 'Please never, ever, ever show your stomach in public ever again. Never.' So that's why I'm, like, naked in the show all the time, as you'll see," she says. In the first episode, Cho's (fictionalized) character is named "Korean of the Year"; find out more at www.margaretcho.com.

— McClatchy-Tribune News Service

FINAL WORD

"Moral dilemmas are the same now as they were in the beginning of time. People are predatory and competitive."

Woody Allen | in Reader's Digest