Sat/Oct 31
If you’re tired of popcorn balls, blow-up scarecrows and kids stealing the buckets of candy from your front porch, then dust off your rhinestone belt, slip on your sequined pants, and head down to the Outrigger Reef for a “Blue Hawaii” Halloween party. Or just come as you are and enjoy a beachside performance of one of New… [»Read]
An alternative rail plan for Honolulu that promises to save taxpayers an estimated $1.7 billion in cost, shave 1.5 years… [»Read]
Sat/Oct 31
The winter season is in the air. Clouds appear more frequently to cool down the beaches, the first swells of the season have… [»Read]
WIDE RELEASES Nine (Dec. 25) A singing, dancing Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the screen in this $50 million… [»Read]
The rain season arrived this week, just in time to save our Winter Books issue from hitting the streets in 90-degree weather. Suddenly, it’s curl-up-under-a-blanket time, the best time of all for books. As we always do,… [»Read]
Locked in too-cold rooms, often water-stained, moldy and otherwise cloaked in homeliness, hide some of the most unusual specimens of literary beauty in the world. The last remnants of vanished worlds exist on the pages of… [»Read]
The Bone Hook Ian MacMillan Mutual Publishing, 2009 201 pages, $13.95 Can we get a Pidgin immersion school? Not to replace the Hawaiian immersion movement, which… [»Read]
Talking Hawaii’s Story: Oral Histories of an Island People Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren S. Nishimoto, Cynthia A. Oshiro University of Hawaii Press, 309… [»Read]
Voices from Okinawa F. Stewart and K. Yamazato, eds. University of Hawaii, $20 In Jon Shirota’s play, Lucky Come Hawaii, the dining room where most… [»Read]
Hawaiian Idyll: The Prints of John Melville Kelly Natasha Roessler Drucker, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2009, 158 pages, $39.95 In a small-scale but profound exhibition… [»Read]
A Woman In The South Pacific Sherée Lipton Belknap Publishing & Design, 2009 162 pages, $29.95 “I came of age in the islands of Oceania. The South Pacific is… [»Read]
Na Mea Hunahuna o ka Nuhou:Selected Articles from Hawaiian Language Newspapers Malcolm Naea Chun First People’s Productions 63 pages, $12.95 We couldn’t resist–this… [»Read]
Paul Malmont Simon & Schuster, 2009 386 pages, $15 Paul Malmont’s 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, an homage to period-piece pulp fiction, established… [»Read]
Going Against the Grain:When Professionals in Hawaii Choose Public Schools Instead of Private Schools Ann Shea Bayer University of Hawaii Press 294 pages,… [»Read]
Since its inception in 1995, Tinfish Press has consistently been a spunky purveyor of local writing. Susan Schultz, a professor of English at UH–Manoa, started… [»Read]
We’re a long way from the 2007 University of Hawaii football season, in which the Rainbows–sorry, the Warriors–went undefeated through the regular season and appeared in the Sugar Bowl. The entire state joined along… [»Read]
In the wake of any massive disaster, after the death toll is tallied and emergency shelter found for the newly homeless, the affected community begins to measure what else has been lost. There is infrastructure damage to… [»Read]
Don’t look at me for anything fun to report to you this week. I had to move, and it was the worst weekend ever to do it. I mean really, the day after Halloween? Halloween in Honolulu, even? Horrid. What’s cool is the… [»Read]
Decreasing your carbon footprint can involve tedious tasks (like sorting recyclables) and dirty jobs (like tending a compost heap) but a new boutique located behind Big City Diner Kaimuki is helping consumers reduce, reuse… [»Read]
For most of us, a significant–almost scary–portion of our lives exist on our computers. We use our laptops for work, school, socializing and slacking off. Sure,… [»Read]
Fri/Nov 6
The Daughters of Hawaii will host the 4th Annual Book Day featuring local authors, refreshments and music by the Queen Emma Summer Palace ‘Ukulele Club. Admission… [»Read]
The guy, 20-something and fresh out of college, is working overnights at a hotel. It’s that quiet time of dark where it’s both too late and too early, and the… [»Read]
Don’t let American, French or German film-buffs know that the Weekly has outed a movie truth: the first story-line movie was devised by Italians, which makes the scrappy little Italian movie-scene the most durable… [»Read]
Robert Zemeckis’s first foray into motion capture CGI didn’t go too well with The Polar Express. The humans looked lifeless and their eyes were dead;… [»Read]
Natalie McKinney smiles broadly, remembering the beginnings of ‘Ohia Productions. Founders Lisa Matsumoto and her cousin Michael Furuya had named the company after the native tree, McKinney says, “because the ‘ohia… [»Read]
Through Fri/Nov 20
“Drawing” is one of those words that carries particular weight and resonance, and a wide range of connotations. The word itself suggests both process and product,… [»Read]
I’m an unabashed meat eater. So how do I find myself at Hale Macrobiotic, a mostly vegan restaurant? Not for a need to jump on the health food, veggie bandwagon or for a sudden desire to curtail my soaring cholesterol levels…. [»Read]
Through Sat/Dec 5
To be Okinawan in Hawaii is to be…not Japanese. To be Okinawan-American in Okinawa… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 7
“Are you ready for some visual stimulation?” asks the flier. Well, sure. And maybe… [»Read]
Sun/Nov 8
The earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Samoa a month ago left families displaced and… [»Read]
Fri/Nov 6
Ong King will have its final First Friday in November–word is the Chinatown tribal… [»Read]
Tue/Nov 10
If you see a bunch of cardboard box houses outside of the State Capitol lawn in the early… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 7
Psst. Can you hear that? The carols, the sleigh bells, the sound of millions of heathens… [»Read]
Thu/Nov 5
For 15 years now, Na Palapalai has been making beautiful Hawaiian music, singing… [»Read]
Fri/Nov 6
If it’s sympathy you’re seeking, humorist David Sedaris famously reminds us,… [»Read]
Through Sun/Nov 8
The 6th annual Cinema Italiano film fest breezes back into town this week, with… [»Read]
As a resident of this state (43 years) and a retired public school teacher (20 years)… [»Read]
I found Mr. Johnson’s letter “Correctional Matters” (Letters, 10/21) very interesting…. [»Read]
Adrienne LaFrance’s article, “Television Troubles” (10/14), has nothing to say about… [»Read]
Critical letter writers should take a closer look at the working conditions on Guam before… [»Read]
The news media is getting misinformation from the National Weather Service about a supposed… [»Read]
The State Department of Human Services continues to streamline the process for obtaining… [»Read]
I am writing to say hello from the seventh grade class of the smallest state in the union,… [»Read]
The Hannemann administration says rail will reduce traffic congestion. What they are saying… [»Read]
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."
