Get happy and antioxidized at NextDoor's new SmartBar. The menu of cocktails (with and without booze) includes ingredients such as POM blueberry soda, Big Island agave lemonade and yerba mate. The SmartBar's signature spring drink: the Smarttini, a mix of PacifiKool ginger syrup (made with locally grown root), above, Grey Goose vodka and lemon-ginger echinacea juice. NextDoor: 43 N. Hotel St., 548-6398.
— Lesa Griffith

LET THE HEALING BEGIN

Walk into the new Orchid Room Wellness Center (941 River St., 566-8008) and you forget you're a few feet above the gritty intersection of King and River streets. The ORoom offers 12 types of massage as well as acupuncture, nutritional and herbal consultations, herbal heat packs and moxabustion. Owner Guenevere Johnson offers a walk-in acupuncture clinic from noon to 5 p.m. Sundays and Mondays. Drop-ins can get a full session on a sliding-scale fee of $15 to $50, based on income and injury. "We want to offer affordable therapeutic alternatives to pharmaceuticals," says Johnson. The ORoom also partners with Kapi'olani Breast Center to give free breast exams for women, 40 and older, with little or no insurance. Next session: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 14.

MEET 'POLYFANTASTICA'S' PAPA

What's going on in Moananui? Find out at Toys n' Joys (3620 Wai'alae Ave., 735-4546) from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, when "Polyfantastica" creator Solomon Enos will talk about his serialized graphic novel and sign collectible "Polyfantastica" posters (they're free!). What do you think about "Polyfantastica"? Send an e-mail to islandlife@honoluluadvertiser.com (subject: "Polyfantastica") and tell us if you think it's an instant winnah or not. Include your age and hometown.
— Advertiser staff