This Week's Honolulu Weekly

Wednesday, March 19 - 25, 2008

National Monument, watery grave?

  • Critics say, the Monument Management Board (MMB) that oversees Papahanaumokuakea is standing idly by while the monument faces perhaps its biggest threat: Military activities staged by the U.S. Navy.

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Recent Cover Stories

Hawai’i Island issue

Slaughterhouse. For most people (carnivores and vegetarians alike), the word brings visions of a huge animal processing factory teeming with exploited immigrants working in dangerous... [Read me]

03-12-2008

Turning Turtle

Kahuku, Oahu's northernmost reach, used to feel like the end of the world. The sound of the name evokes the dark nights of the Country,... [Read me]

03-05-2008

The Final Coup

A proposed ceded lands payback agreement signed Jan. 17 between the state and Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has triggered an impassioned public debate over... [Read me]

02-27-2008

Hawaiian Healing

Traditional learning There are three methods used in traditional Hawaiian medicine: lomilomi, popularly known as massage; la'au lapa'au, treatment with medicinal herbs; and ho'oponopono, conflict... [Read me]

02-20-2008

Sprawl vs. Farms

In her State of the State address last month, Governor Linda Lingle made waves with her proposal that the state buy the Turtle Bay Resort... [Read me]

02-13-2008

Blue Hawai’i

Last week, the United States gathered representatives from 17 industrial nations in Honolulu to discuss global warming, excluding the public and press from the official... [Read me]

Target Iran?

On January 6, nearly 9,000 miles away from their homeport in Pearl Harbor, U.S. Navy warships USS Port Royal and USS Hopper were buzzed by... [Read me]

01-30-2008

Hawaii’s Carbon Footprint

Editor's Note: At first glance, Hawai'i's greenhouse gas output appears low to middling compared with the rest of the country. We rank 43rd among the... [Read me]

01-23-2008

U.S.S. Superferry?

Hawai'i Superferry--now running (weather permitting) between O'ahu and Maui, thanks to a gubernatorial and legislative override of a State Supreme Court ruling--has been officially touted... [Read me]

01-16-2008

Spring Arts

Visual Arts With Hawai'i's art scene booming brighter than it has in years, it's no wonder that spring holds so much to look forward to... [Read me]

01-09-08

Lucky we live Hawaii?

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01-02-2008

The Next Trillion

Having been complicit, as a U.S. citizen, in the spending of what might be considered the worst $1 trillion in history, a geopolitical petro-fundamentalism-driven military... [Read me]

12-26-2007

Native Front

Policymakers are finally starting to recognize that Native Hawaiians, who managed these Islands for centuries, have traditional knowledge that could be useful in caring for... [Read me]

12-19-2007

iPower to the people

< Grinning like a rock star, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards strides out to a lighted platform in the center of a townhall gathering at... [Read me]

12-12-2007

Energy Field

In Hawai'i, generations long past provided all their own food and fuel without help from beyond these shores. But that was prior to 7 million... [Read me]

12-05-2007


03-19-2008

whatevahs

T-time Who says art galleries are non-interactive and boring? Nu'uanu Gallery at Marks Garage will show you something else. You're invited to a T-Party :...

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Entertainment

When Irish eyes are bloodshot

Back in January, we reported on the Guinness Toast Contest at O'Toole's Irish Pub. For those who can't remember that far back (hell, we even... [Read me]

03-19-2008

lululemon athletica

Some stores sucker you into buying exorbitantly expensive products that you think you need. Then you wonder what you're doing with a $70 scrub when... [Read me]

03-19-2008

Mixx Bistro Bar

A place can be considered truly established when everyone in town calls it by the same--slightly wrong--name. Just as the Old Kona Airport is 'Old... [Read me]

03-12-2008

citywise

Oasis Skateboard Company From the humble beginnings of brewing curb wax at home to owning a skate company, Dan Madsen not only puts out a... [Read me]

03-12-2008

Beautiful Margaret

Tell me a little bit more about the theme of your new show, Beautiful . I was on this radio show and the DJ asked... [Read me]

03-05-2008


Features

Conversations with the artist

The writer Annie Dillard once noted, in her essay 'Teaching a Stone to Talk,' that 'Önature's silence is its one remarkÖ' In relating to nature,... [Read me]

03-05-2008

We don’t want no war

Colonel Ann Wright served 29 years in the U.S. Army, including 16 years as a diplomat. In December 2001, she was part of the team... [Read me]

01-30-2008

21st Century Healing

If health is not merely the absence of disease, than what is it? Health is wholeness. It is the loss of the fear of death.... [Read me]

01-23-2008

Myth-terious Island

It's the little kids who will enjoy this show the most. I mean, with a title like Maui vs. Hercules , it's not meant to... [Read me]

01-23-2008

In love with words

In addition to being the author of two books (Beads, Boys and the Buddha and The Bodhisattva Club) and the head of Lotus Moon in... [Read me]

01-09-2008


01-16-2008

Affordable housing front

More than 100 people jammed Hau'ula Elementary School Cafeteria last Wednesday night to hear a half-dozen developers discuss their plans for thousands of new homes,...

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Restaurant Reviews

Chef-owner Ted Fulmer has had some trouble with 'Pau,' the name of his new bistro in Waimea. Customers have walked in the front door and... [Read Reviews]

03-12-2008

Pau Restaurant

Chef-owner Ted Fulmer has had some trouble with 'Pau,' the name of his new bistro in Waimea. Customers have walked in the front door and... [Read me]

03-12-2008

Marilou’s captive flavors

In spite of a large Filipino population in Hawai'i, advertisements for Filipino restaurants compared to other Asian restaurants (at least in English-language media) are few,... [Read me]

03-05-2008

The Rise of the Teishoku

There have been many great showdowns in recent months: 50 Cent vs. Kanye West, Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD, Barack vs. Hillary Ö Locally speaking, in restaurant... [Read me]

02-27-2008

Tio’s is the New Mex

Occupying the old Dixie Grill space on Ward Avenue is Tio's Grill, but as the menu is quick to point out, their cooking isn't quite... [Read me]

01-30-2008

Shopping list

Smooth jazz in the background, the murmur of Japanese voices, tasteful minimalist setting, handmade serving pieces--surely you're in an elegant Tokyo bistro. But step outside... [Read me]

01-23-2008


Film Reviews

Iron Man

Iron Man is the best superhero movie since Batman Begins . This is saying a lot due to recent horrors like Ghost Rider and Spider-Man... [Read Reviews]

05-07-2008

Iron Man

Iron Man is the best superhero movie since Batman Begins . This is saying a lot due to recent horrors... [Read me]

05-07-2008

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden

W here in the World ... is (a lot) better than it sounds. If you saw Morgan Spurlock's first documentary,... [Read me]

05-07-2008

Rock stars

The success of 300 has turned the beginning of March into a period for half-naked men to run free and... [Read me]

03-12-2008

Full frontal

Tel Aviv, present-day. Our main characters--attractive, middle-class, of various sexual persuasions--live in a kind of bubble: the real world--old-line Israelis,... [Read me]

03-12-2008

Music From A War Zone

In Northern Uganda, where 30,000 children have been abducted to serve in the rebel army, the government has built camps... [Read me]

03-05-2008

The Boleyn whores or The sluts of Reformation

In a strange sort of cultural trend, King Henry VIII's sex life has moved into vogue, becoming the trendy stuff... [Read me]

03-05-2008

In the Valley of Elah wuz robbed

Months ago, when Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah opened here, the Weekly called it 'one of the best... [Read me]

03-05-2008

Movie of Blinding Lights

For moviegoers dying to see a concert in 3-D but who refuse to be spotted buying a ticket for Hannah... [Read me]

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Political skullduggery. Conniving henchmen. Honor. Hubris. And it's all centered around a short Italian man with a mustache rendered in... [Read me]

02-06-2008


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