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Winter Books 2009

Winter Books 2009 / 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]


Paper treasures

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]


To dust

The Bone Hook / 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]


Ka moolelo hou

Talking Hawaii’s Story / 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]


Near voices

Comes with video

Voices from Okinawa / 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]


Idyll dreaming

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Hawaiian Idyll / 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 unbound

A Woman In The South Pacific / 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

Na Mea Hunahuna o ka Nuhou / 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]


Jack London In Paradise

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Jack London in Paradise / 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

Going Against the Grain / 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]


Tinfish triptych

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TinFish 19 / 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]


Editor’s Note 11-4-2009

UH football / 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]


Frozen in time

Samoa / 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]


Hallo, hallo, hallo

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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]


Give me some sugar

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Sugarcane / 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]


In with the old

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Tech tracks / 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]


Psst! The Daughters of Hawaii Book Day

Fri/Nov 6

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4th Annual Book Day / 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]


Waikiki, Thursday, The wee hours

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]


Gusti vari: flavors of cinema

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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]


Lump of Carrey coal

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A Christmas Carol / 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]


Hat trick

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Coco Before Chanel / Creating a biopic on one of the fashion world’s biggest icons can prove troublesome, because even those who might not know who Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was… [»Read]


Web Exclusive

Chop shop

Ong Bak 2 / Fan of Ong Bak can bear one sigh of release: The sequel has once again features Tony Jaa and his incredible martial arts and acrobatics. As for the rest,… [»Read]


X-Woman

Through Sat/Nov 14

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Kathryn “Kathy X” Xian, Girl Fest Hawaii / When Kathryn “Kathy X” Xian isn’t busy as a filmmaker or performing duties as Legal Aid Society of Hawaii’s director of communications and development, she is the “non-executive director” of Girl Fest Hawaii–an… [»Read]


After the volcano

‘Ohia Productions / 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]


That’s gonna leave a mark

Through Fri/Nov 20

The Drawing Show at Windward Community College / “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]


Punk life

Sat/Nov 7

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HAWAIIAN HOUSE PARTY / Punk promoter Jason Miller has a history with Asian Man Records founder Mike Park. While in the California-based band Skankin’ Pickle, Park says that Miller, then… [»Read]


Hale good offerings

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Hale Macrobiotic / 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]


Voices of Okinawa

Okinawa sweet potation

Through Sat/Dec 5

Comes with video

Voices of Okinawa / To be Okinawan in Hawaii is to be…not Japanese. To be Okinawan-American in Okinawa… [»Read]


Black Diamond

Diamond head

Sat/Nov 7

Black Diamond / “Are you ready for some visual stimulation?” asks the flier. Well, sure. And maybe… [»Read]


“Saving our Samoa” benefit concert

Saving Samoa

Sun/Nov 8

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“Saving our Samoa” benefit concert / The earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Samoa a month ago left families displaced and… [»Read]


Ong King

Going, going, Ong

Fri/Nov 6

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Ong King / Ong King will have its final First Friday in November–word is the Chinatown tribal… [»Read]


Out of the box

Tue/Nov 10

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Cardboard City Campover / If you see a bunch of cardboard box houses outside of the State Capitol lawn in the early… [»Read]


Keeping it street

Sat/Nov 7

Celebrate Kaimuki Kanikapila Craft Fair and Street Festival / Psst. Can you hear that? The carols, the sleigh bells, the sound of millions of heathens… [»Read]


Na Palapalai

Kekahi mau mele ma Kou

Thu/Nov 5

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Na Palapalai / For 15 years now, Na Palapalai has been making beautiful Hawaiian music, singing… [»Read]


David Sedaris

Me talk funny one day

Fri/Nov 6

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David Sedaris / If it’s sympathy you’re seeking, humorist David Sedaris famously reminds us,… [»Read]


Cinema Italiano

Cinema paradiso

Through Sun/Nov 8

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Cinema Italiano / The 6th annual Cinema Italiano film fest breezes back into town this week, with… [»Read]


Keiki shmeiki

As a resident of this state (43 years) and a retired public school teacher (20 years)… [»Read]


By the numbers

I found Mr. Johnson’s letter “Correctional Matters” (Letters, 10/21) very interesting…. [»Read]


Bad reception

Adrienne LaFrance’s article, “Television Troubles” (10/14), has nothing to say about… [»Read]


The Neil deal

Critical letter writers should take a closer look at the working conditions on Guam before… [»Read]


On the trail

The news media is getting misinformation from the National Weather Service about a supposed… [»Read]


Snap!

The State Department of Human Services continues to streamline the process for obtaining… [»Read]


From one “island” to another

I am writing to say hello from the seventh grade class of the smallest state in the union,… [»Read]


Traffic report from the future

The Hannemann administration says rail will reduce traffic congestion. What they are saying… [»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."