Got tips on the best places to take kids in Hawai‚i? www.HawaiiMoms.com is compiling a top-50 list. Log on to nominate your favorites. The Advertiser Web site is also where moms talk story on everything from dealing with defiant kids to strategies for scoring a spot in a private school. Here's an excerpt from one discussion: "Do you think it really matters which preschool I send my child to if I want her to get into Punahou or �Iolani at kindergarten? What are these schools looking for when they evaluate for acceptance? I'm so confused. "I know we all want the best for our children, and it's difficult not to get caught up in the private school hype."

- SHOCKED, in the Preschool forum.

MCCARTNEYTHON

AN ALL-DAY PLAY

Get wired. Get McCartney. All day. Tracks from Paul McCartney's critically well-received new disc "Memory Almost Full" will be played all day today in more than 10,000 Starbucks shops in 29 countries worldwide. It began with today's sunrise in New Zealand and ends when doors close here tonight - after an estimated 6 million listeners have been force-fed McCartney with their joe. Macca's new label Hear Music is a partnership between Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Music Group.

— Derek Paiva

FINAL WORD

"You have to be able to take a joke. I almost felt obliged to get my clothes as tight as they could possibly be and do the girl job."

Ellen Barkin, the actress, on being the only woman in the cast of "Ocean's Thirteen," in Entertainment Weekly