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Week 1: The Season of Giving

Every year around this time, the Weekly tries to help readers sort through the consumerist frenzy that descends each winter like a vaguely benevolent heart attack, one that can’t quite kill us but nevertheless does… [»Read]


Giving to Honolulu

For our first guide of the year, we’ve decided to take the holiday season up on its moniker as the “season of giving” and are happy to present our first Holiday… [»Read]


Bundle your time and money

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Working a soup line at Christmas or chipping in at a shelter on Christmas Eve–these are generous acts. What service groups desperately need, however, are more long-range… [»Read]


Take time for a senior

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Some seniors–especially those living alone–need a little help here and there. If there’s someone in your ‘ohana who fits that description, consider making… [»Read]


Hope for homelessness

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Despite signs that Hawaii is finally willing to open up about our homelessness problem, there are still far too many families in need. Aleck provides these two… [»Read]


Other ways to give

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Ask a local shelter about its wish list. Aleck reminds us to remember domestic violence shelters when donating clothes, blankets and other items. Their addresses… [»Read]


Railroaded

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Honolulu Rail / Imagine an elevated concrete train viaduct rising from abandoned sugarcane fields just east of Kapolei and barreling through Waipahu, Pearl City and ‘Aiea, past Pearl Harbor and the airport and into downtown. It… [»Read]


Editor’s note

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We have a piece on rail by Curt Sanburn this week. Sanburn, a former Weekly editor who famously penned a blistering profile of then-Councilman Mufi Hannemann years ago, contacted the publisher last month with the thought… [»Read]


Really Real

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So there’s really going to be a reality show about a bunch of people in Honolulu. I wasn’t completely buying it until Emmy Award-winning LOST Director of Photography John Bartley brought it up when we were… [»Read]


Decent exposure

Diverse Art Center / The women look ready to attack. Clad only in push-up bras and tasseled underpants, they’re poised to pounce off the wall at the new Victoria’s Secret location at Ala Moana mall, ready to jump from the screens of our television… [»Read]


Take a look, it’s in a nook

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Tech tracks / The Kindle has been the king of electronic readers for the past couple of years. Its users have been able to wirelessly download digital copies of their favorite… [»Read]


Apocalypse again

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2012 / By now, we’re all a bit jaded when it comes to the end of the world. Perhaps Al Gore’s inconvenient truths killed our fun, so when Roland Emmerich’s 2012 reared its destructive head in preview trailers, it was… [»Read]


Are you ready for some football?

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The Damned United / In The Damned United, Michael Sheen portrays his third major historical Brit figure, after playing Prime Minister Tony Blair in The Queen in 2006 and… [»Read]


When the giving gets tough

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Hawaii People’s Fund / Last week, the Weekly spoke with Nancy Aleck, executive director of Hawaii People’s Fund, an umbrella social service organization that helps to fund non-profit groups actively working for social justice. We asked Aleck… [»Read]


Hot dog!

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Aloha Stadium looks like a spaceship as you approach it from a distance. This is funny, mostly because once you get inside, the aesthetic–not futuristic in the least–makes it hard to remember it’s not still 1979. But… [»Read]


Convergence Dance Theatre

Boot camp

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Opens Fri/Nov 20

Convergence Dance Theatre / One pair of enormous, industrial-strength work boots and three dancers who fancy them… [»Read]


Richard Thompson

Thompson wins

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Sat/Nov 21

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Richard Thompson / It would be an understatement to say that Richard Thompson is a famous British folk-rock… [»Read]


Nextdoor

Showdown showcase

Sat/Nov 21

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Nextdoor / Showdown in Chinatown, a platform for local independent filmmakers to showcase… [»Read]


FASHIONISTAS MARKET

Moonstruck

Sat/Nov 21

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FASHIONISTAS MARKET / Dear Bella, We totally get why you have a crush on Edward Cullen. There’s his teenage… [»Read]


Movie Museum

Boldly recline

Opens Thu/Nov 19

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Movie Museum / Hey Trekkies, wanna experience the monumental sci-fi achievement that was JJ Abrams’… [»Read]


Loft

Scenic boom

Fri/Nov 20

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Loft / Whatever formula dance-oriented bearded male DJ duos use, it seems to be working like… [»Read]


Once-A-Month Punk

Punk in the box

Sat/Nov 21

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Once-A-Month Punk / Skate punks never die. They just get bruised up and keep on rolling. These days, skate… [»Read]


ANNA BANNANAS

Rapping earworm

Thu/Nov 19

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ANNA BANNANAS / If you like to nod your head to good beats, you have no other choice than to come to Wormwood… [»Read]


Stop propaganda now

John Brizdle’s anti-rail letter [11/4] begs a response. Brizdle, a member of Stop Rail… [»Read]


Corrections corrections

I am a Hawaii inmate at the Red Rock Correctional center in Eloy, Ariz. I am responding… [»Read]


By George!

In a letter [“Shark bait,” 10/21] to Honolulu Weekly, George Downing wrote,… [»Read]


Partisan pride

There are serious questions that have been raised by qualified professionals about the… [»Read]



Green Market 2009

On Earth Day 2009 Honolulu Weekly held its first Green Market. We brought together over 40 local businesses and organizations, took over Fort St. Mall, and for an afternoon showed how easy it is to "go green."