Bring your wallet, a can of something from your pantry, or both. Today's Nu'uanu Avenue Open House, dubbed "Gratitude!" is a fundraiser and food drive for the Hawaii Foodbank. Downtown merchant and arts organizations such as The ARTS at Marks Garage are sponsors. Refreshments, entertainment and lots of gift ideas are promised.

Pick up a pass from Nu'uanu Avenue merchants and galleries today with a donation, get it stamped when you visit five of 'em, and you'll be eligible for cool swag from downtown businesses. From 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Nu'uanu Avenue.

STOCKING STUFFER

CRAFTY 'PILLS' WILL MAKE TUTU LAUGH

Craft master Irene Kawaguchi came up with a grandma booster in time for the holidays. Check the label on her $1 "Makule Pills" — really a packet of M&Ms: Green — for sore joints. Red — charges up your sex drive ... Orange — helps your digestion ...

Available at Wabi-Sabi in Kaimuki.

FINAL WORD

"Cheney's gone in a couple of years. Alito will be around for decades. And I'm not sure if the guy we see on TV is the real Dick Cheney, anyway. I think he's being stored underground, hundreds of miles away, in some vault with a lot of pacemakers and extra hearts."

Morgan Spurlock | director of "Super Size Me," when asked who's scarier, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito or Vice President Dick Cheney, in New York magazine