Celebrate our favorite Willie when Terence Knapp hosts two days of songs, sonnets, soliloquies and scenes for the Bard's Birthday Bash, beginning tonight. It's all part of the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival's season. The free bash takes place at 7:30 p.m. (plus, it continues tomorrow) at the ARTS at Marks Garage; 256-6657 or www.hawaiishakes.org.

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FINAL WORD

"Once I wrote a book with an unhappy ending. The bad girl won and the good girl was accused of murder. Kids hated the book. They hated it. And I got all this mail: 'Dear R.L. Stine. You moron, are you going to write a sequel?' They could not accept it."

Children's spooky-tale author R.L. Stinw, in Time magazine