“Spring Footholds: Echoes,” a dance concert, opens at 8 tonight and continues through Sunday at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa’s Earle Ernst Lab Theatre.

“Restore and renew.” “Significantly reduces the loss of cells in the epidermis.” “Regenerate cells and repair tissue.”

To become a mega-movie star these days, a man must don the tights. With a few notable exceptions like Leonardo DiCaprio, who had the good fortune to be in the highest-grossing movie of all time (that would be “Titanic”), almost every $20 million man has done his time as a caped crusader, masked marvel or some popcorn equivalent, such as a pirate or extraterrestrial G-man.

OSAKA, Japan — Udon noodle exports in 2007 were more than double that of 10 years ago, apparently because of a growing fondness overseas for Japanese food and the growing ranks of Japanese baseball players plying their trade overseas.