The Actors Group / Playwright David Mamet is known for three things: writing powerful dramas about disreputable people; creating engagingly syncopated interplays of terse dialogue; and inserting into his productions more profanity per minute than most HBO specials can squeeze into an hour. Of late, Mamet’s even developed a flair for comedy (or could it be farce?).
Mission Houses Museum / It is the time of year when the pressure of holiday gift shopping is upon us, and who wouldn’t want to avoid the chaos of a crowded shopping mall, support local artists and find gifts that are a little more personal than the stuff advertised on TV? The Mission Houses Museum helps out by putting on its annual two-day Craft Fair.
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS / Living on an island, it’s easy to feel isolated from the rest of the world. Taking a tip from John Donne, the Honolulu Academy of Arts is bringing the world to Hawaii at the 28th Annual World Art Bazaar.
Manoa Valley Theatre / We know we’re supposed to wait until after Thanksgiving to pull out the Santa hat and mistletoe, but is anyone else whistling Bing Crosby tunes yet? OK, so maybe it’s just us.
Atherton Performing Arts Studio / On Saturday, venture to the sonic realm of “New Age on steroids” with percussionist von Baron and an acclaimed jazz quintet at the Atherton Performing Arts Studio. Baron, who teaches drumming lessons to Hawaii’s keiki when he’s not recording, blends new age and world music on tracks with names like “Tranquil Destination” and “Passion for Peace.” Joining him on the spiritual journey through jazz and pop will be bassist Mark Tanouye, who’s played with Cecilio & Kapono for eight years, Jeff Peterson, a Grammy-award winning slack key-guitar player, keyboardist Dan Del Negro, who played in Miss Saigon during its run in Honolulu, and Tim Tsukiyama, a saxophonist who’s jammed with Ray Charles.
Pipeline Cafe / With a name like Multi-Sensory Aesthetic Experience, fans are sure to thank their lucky stars for the acronym MAE. The Virginia-based group makes its return to Honolulu this month, pushing the independently released CD/DVD (m)orning.
Loft / Most proms are in the spring, when the sun shines, the flowers bloom and the birds chirp–perfect mating season for the young ’uns. Plus pastel colors.
I just can’t wait for a Democrat to take over the Governor’s office–for Pritchett’s sake. There needs to be a bit of truth for a cartoon to have some sting to it, and Pritchett’s cartoons haven’t had much zip to them since his favorite character, Jeremy Harris, left office.
This letter is in response to the Weekly’s transportation story, “On the fast track,” (10/28). For the naysayers, it is all very well to claim that the Honolulu Rail system as planned is a bit of a fraud.
The amalgamation of Channel 8 (KHNL) and Channel 9 (KGMB) news now comes with giggles and some of the old theatrical posturing. One young lady looks into the camera with a kind of steely defiance.
As if gentlemen estates, GMOs and urban encroachment aren’t enough of a threat to our agriculture lands, now we have five City Council members advocating for expanding the hospitality market into our agriculture lands via Bill 7. Agriculture lands should not be opened up to the accommodation industry and have no place in the conversation relating to Bed & Breakfasts.
The Weekly’s cover story by Chris Pala, “Rat’s Nest: WESPAC’S Fishy Funding” (11/11) got it mostly right. While the recent investigation of Simonds and WESPAC by the U.S.
Hawaii Organic Farmers Association (HOFA) has launched its spiffy new Web site at [www.hawaiiorganic.org]. Look for a solid guide to organic products grown or made in our state.
Daniel Anthony says I’m the reason he’s in trouble. A few weeks ago, I took a picture for another publication of Anthony pounding taro at the Ward Farmers’ Market, prompting a visit from a health inspector who informed Anthony that he was in violation of health codes by selling poi “off the board.” Not that Anthony really operates under the radar– clothed only in a malo, with his sometime-mohawk, he’s hard to miss–the outspoken celebrity chef of the taro-pounding circuit.
I used to do shows. That’s a plural but barely.
There are a lot of proverbs out there about how one’s life ought to be lived. Most are cheesy, some are apt, but there’s no cliché we like so much as “work hard, play hard.” It’s the simplest way to sum up the ever-important balance between buckling down and letting loose.
There’s nothing quite like lacing up your sneakers, breaking a sweat and coming back home with a grass stain or two to show for it. Here’s some of the equipment you can gift that’s sure to drag your friends off of their beach towels to join you.
Of course, there’s plenty of fun to be had as a grown-up as well. While ping-pong itself is all well and good, we like the idea of buying that boozy athlete on your list a ping-pong table and custom-painting it for beer pong.
For the slightly more serious athlete on your list, we like Polar heart-monitor watches, available at any number of local sporting-good stores. Heart monitors are an incredible tool to track training progress–and it’s fun to see how many calories you burn for various activities.
KICKS/HI / Custom-designing your own shoe from mega-corps like Nike is so 2005. The sneaker freak’s latest must-have?
You can find all kinds of crafty homemade goods–some of them made by local talents, so search by region–on [etsy.com]. We like the bracelets and earrings made from recycled bicycle chains, and pendants with sporty charms like skateboards and sneakers. There are also plenty of earrings, buttons, headbands and all kinds of homemade accessories featuring various team logos.
So we’re all for playing outside and working up a sweat, but we’re also big fans of being big fans. One of the easiest presents for a sports fan is a team jersey.
We also recommend looking for ways to pad a sports fan’s bookshelves. Bill Simmons’ new book, The Book of Basketball is a no-brainer for regular Page 2 readers–and the perfect thing to read on the beach Christmas day.
Ninja Assassin / Ninja Assassin should have been the coolest movie of the holiday season (besides, possibly, Sherlock Holmes). It had a simple concept, ninjas slicing the crap out of each other.
Given the city’s crumbling infrastructure and rail controversy, it’s hard to believe anyone would want to be the next mayor of Honolulu. But a few do want the job, including the incumbent, Mayor Peter Carlisle, the former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney who won a 2010 special election to fill the remainder of Mufi Hannemann’s term.
I’d never been to a Honolulu City Council meeting until a few weeks ago. Features, not politics, was my beat.
Victoria Holt Takamine is a kumu hula, a cultural activist and a teacher and has an impeccable pedigree to back up all these titles. Born of an alii family whose kuleana was in Moanalua, she graduated as a hula teacher under the legendary Auntie Maiki Aiu Lake and taught hundreds of students in her own halau (Pua Alii ‘Ilima) and at the University of Hawaii.
On April 25, a state judge dismissed trespassing charges against a Kauai man after finding that he had been exercising traditional native Hawaiian rights hunting wild pigs on private land. Kui Palama, 28, was arrested on Jan.
The city plans to dish out $3.5 million from its Affordable Housing Fund and either purchase or renovate a structure to provide transitional housing for Honolulu’s special needs homeless population. “Our community has invested considerable effort and resources in addressing homelessness,” Mayor Peter Carlisle said in a statement, “but there remains a population whose disabilities or chronic conditions make it difficult for them to participate in traditional shelter programs.” Carlisle is referring to those homeless with mental illnesses, addictions and physical disabilities.
Makaweli Poi faces an uncertain future after its owner, a corporate subsidiary of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) ordered the West Kauai mill to suspend operations May 23. Mona Bernardino, chief operating officer of the corporation, Hiipoi LLC, says the move to shut down Makaweli Poi was prompted mainly by financial concerns.
A resolution adopted by the City Council will solidify an agreement between the City and County of Honolulu and the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center (UH-WRRC) to conduct an analysis of impacts from ocean sewer outfalls on the marine environments off of Oahu. The city will pay UH-WRRC as much as $2.5 million for biological and sediment studies in portions between now and June 30, 2017 .
Along with the deep, verdant growth of spring sprouts an unyielding desire to spend more time in the open air. That’s why it should come as no surprise that National Bike Month falls in the sun-drenched time of May.
Of the many letters you publish against rail, how many offer an alternative that won’t send us into further economic demise? Billions of gallons of oil are imported for us from every oil-producing nation on this planet so that we can buy billions of gallons of gasoline.
TheBus is taking a back seat to rail. At the May 3 Downtown Neighborhood Board meeting, an audience member asked city Transportation Director Wayne Yoshioka when we could expect the bus route cancellations and changes to be reversed.
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