It's dance. It's improvisation. It's downtown tonight at The ARTS at Marks Garage. Upside-Down Dance presents "An Evening of Choreography and Improvisation" with guest performances by Maile Okamura of New York's Mark Morris Dance Group, and Onium Ballet Project artistic director Minou Lallemand. Members of contemporary dance troupe Upside Down also will be spotlighted. At 8 p.m., $15, 550-8457, www.honoluluboxoffice.com.

— Derek Paiva

GET SCARED

CHICKEN-SKIN STORYTELLING

Get chicken skin listening to Lopaka Kapanui share stories from his spooky-tale collection. The storyteller and actor will perform at Borders , Ward Center, at 2 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 591-8995.

— CATHERINE E. TOTH

FINAL WORD

"Now things are completely different. I'm pretty sure I've just dined at some of the finest restaurants in America."

Jeffrey Steingarten | food writer, on his latest trip to Las Vegas, in Vogue