Opens Fri/Nov 20
One pair of enormous, industrial-strength work boots and three dancers who fancy them serve as the focal point for “In These Shoes,” one of eight pieces crafted around the idea of stress by the Convergence Dance Theatre (CDT). What makes dancing in boots stressful? These shoes are fettered to a chunk of wood. This new… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 21
It would be an understatement to say that Richard Thompson is a famous British folk-rock legend. It would be an even bigger… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 21
Showdown in Chinatown, a platform for local independent filmmakers to showcase short films seven minutes or less,… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 21
Dear Bella, We totally get why you have a crush on Edward Cullen. There’s his teenage brooding, his perfectly mussed bedhead,… [»Read]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Opens Fri/Nov 20
One pair of enormous, industrial-strength work boots and three dancers who fancy them… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 21
It would be an understatement to say that Richard Thompson is a famous British folk-rock… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 21
Showdown in Chinatown, a platform for local independent filmmakers to showcase… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 21
Dear Bella, We totally get why you have a crush on Edward Cullen. There’s his teenage… [»Read]
Opens Thu/Nov 19
Hey Trekkies, wanna experience the monumental sci-fi achievement that was JJ Abrams’… [»Read]
Fri/Nov 20
Whatever formula dance-oriented bearded male DJ duos use, it seems to be working like… [»Read]
Sat/Nov 21
Skate punks never die. They just get bruised up and keep on rolling. These days, skate… [»Read]
Thu/Nov 19
If you like to nod your head to good beats, you have no other choice than to come to Wormwood… [»Read]
John Brizdle’s anti-rail letter [11/4] begs a response. Brizdle, a member of Stop Rail… [»Read]
I am a Hawaii inmate at the Red Rock Correctional center in Eloy, Ariz. I am responding… [»Read]
There are serious questions that have been raised by qualified professionals about the… [»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."
