The art and architecture of China's Long-xing Monastery will be the topic of a free lecture by Puay-Peng Hoof of the Chinese University in Hong Kong, 7:30 tonight in Doris Duke Theater, Honolulu Academy of Arts. The event is sponsored by the Society of Asian Art of Hawaii. The 1,000-year-old monastery represents the apex of the Song Dynasty, when buildings were built exclusively from wood.

— Advertiser Staff

CATCH MASTERS OF BEAT AND SPIT

Underground hip-hop artist Joe Dub, who made a name for himself as half of California's LA2thebay collective and now lives in Kane'ohe, is headlining a tour with Canadian indie label Sideroad Records' owner/operator and hip-hop producer Factor, California's Kirby Dominant and Canadians Def3, Kay The Aquanaut, and Forgetful Jones. They're on at 6 p.m. today at Prototype (Pearlridge Uptown), and the masters of beat and spit join the Trip The Lights Beat Root Championships at 8 p.m. tomorrow at rRed Elephant; www.lightsleepers.net, 222-9284.

— Kawehi Haug

FINAL WORD

"I just want to be the Marvin Gaye of rap. ... I done made you party my whole career. Now I want to see if I can get you to cry."

Snoop Dogg | in Billboard. His new Cd, "Ego Trippin'," is due March 11.