Extras / In the aftermath of the Walmart-ization of the country, we’ve seen a lot of really great small shops with big character disappear. For instance, big box stores paired with the advent of digital downloads brought on the cataclysmic decrease of record stores across the nation.
Do you have a collection of tie-dye attire stashed away in the back of your closet just waiting for the right occasion? Well, here’s your chance.
I’ve got eight-and-a-half problems, but a Fellini film screening ain’t one. Thanks to La Cinematheque, an enriching soirée that gathers cinephiles together to swoon over new wave, avant-garde and cult-classic films on the second Thursday of every month, there’s a new and inspired reason to pry yourself away from The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Extras / Last year’s hit film The Descendants based here in Hawaii, won a slew of accolades, including the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. Though the movie can stand tall on its own by virtue of its emotive plot and stellar acting, those of us who recognize the setting of the film as home see it as an inspired overture of our destiny.
Music creates a range of emotions with the capacity to send you outside of space and time. On April 14, four internationally known artists will come together to overwhelm you with beats and melodies that will make you wish you never had to come back to planet Earth at Clash of the Titans.
Concerts / RayJahs, get hyped. The 2012 MayJah RayJah concert tour is set to floor attendees with another night of local and reggae beats.
Literary / Roll out your laptops for the latest in a series of typescripting parties for ‘Ike Kuokoa: Liberating Knowledge — The Hawaiian Newspaper Initiative, a local movement of volunteers seeking to completely digitize century-old newspaper archives and keep those printed words alive. Steamroll your way through this innovative project, which seeks to create the first online database of historical records and materials which are able to reveal new insights into Hawaii’s days of yore for generations past, present and future.
Concerts & Clubs / Besides the release of Justin Bieber’s brand-new single, there are few musical acts that leave fans howling at the moon like . .
Literary / It’s been building since September of 2011. The anticipation.
‘Ohana / Voyager Charter Schools hosts its third annual Voyager Concert Fundraiser on the Great Lawn of the Bishop Museum April 7. Children can enjoy the array of activities in the Kids Zone, including carnival games, basketball and face painting (which the adults are free to enjoy, too).
Extras / We all crave adventure. Sometimes I’ll eat cake–or if I’m feeling extreme, cake batter–and then, not even wait 30 minutes to go swimming.
Stage / Mix together a spoonful of high-societal hypocrisy, a dash of jeering tongue-in-cheek repartee, frosted with sumptuous cotton candy hues and voila! You’ve got the decadent revival of Oscar Wilde’s 19th-century classic play The Importance of Being Earnest.
Extras / The sky is the limit for fashion at Passport–a star-studded evening hosted by designer, model, actress, singer and socialite Kea Ho. Jet set over to Aloha Tower this Friday to catch Ho (daughter of “Tiny Bubbles” singer Don Ho) as she world-premieres her new line of bikini swimwear LOVECHILDE–her first public launch in homegirl’s beloved city of Honolulu–in a showcase of high fashion, music, drink, celebrities and entertainment.
From a female-dominated profession to the land of funnymen, pro football cheerleader-turned-comedian Anjelah Johnson has managed to stay at the top of her game in every field. Need proof?
Learning / It’s time to unwind those tuning keys. Master slack-key guitarist Brother Noland will be leading a one-day, three-part series of workshops, Lessons of Aloha, that will enable participants to meet the man and mind behind the ‘ukulele.
Learning / In just a few years, the computer generated (CG) world of film has made great, nearly steroidal, strides. Just take one look into those sad and enormous gleaming pupils of Puss in Boots.
Literary / You could say there are two kinds of writers in the world: men and women. And while both are welcome to attend the upcoming Biennial Writers’ Conference, you women especially need to drop your pens, close your laptops and read on.
Concerts / Speaking with Drew Shirley, the guitarist from the feel-good religious rock quintet Switchfoot, kind of feels like that moment you put on a cozy hand-knit sweater straight from the dryer. Shirley sounds remarkably warm, and also eager to share his enthusiasm about coming to Hawaii, even though he’s no stranger to the Islands.
Stage / For those with a white Bjork swan dress still hanging in their closet collecting dust (just Bjork?), there’s haute couture luck: The Tau Dance Theater’s White Knight Party is calling all of Honolulu to don their most outrageous shining armor at this 16th anniversary fundraiser event. “It’s going to be really funky,” says event producer and board member Leni Knight.
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Concerts Aloha Stadium (South End Zone), Sat., 3/24, 6:30pm, $45--$85, [ziggymarley.com], (800) 745-3000 / What’s not to love about Ziggy Marley? Five-time Grammy winner, prolific singer-songwriter, zealous humanitarian, contemporary reggae pioneer, eldest son of the legendary Bob Marley… If that wasn’t enough, add performing in the heart of Oahu this weekend to the ever-growing list.
Learning / We’re often hard on conspiracy theorists, those who don’t believe we’ve ever set foot on the moon, or in the case of British author, David Icke, that the human mind is manipulated by the moon. The Moon Matrix theory isn’t the only thing that makes Icke particularly interesting.
![Extras MA‘O Organic Farms, 86-210 Puhawai Rd., Wai‘anae, Sat., 3/24, 5pm, $20, $50, discounts for youth, keiki 5 and under free, [kahea.org], [email: info]g, 696-5569](/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/_icon+HP-Underwater-Glimpse.jpg)
Extras MA‘O Organic Farms, 86-210 Puhawai Rd., Wai‘anae, Sat., 3/24, 5pm, $20, $50, discounts for youth, keiki 5 and under free, [kahea.org], [email: info]g, 696-5569 / Dinner and a movie for $20 or three dinners and three movies for $50? And the dinner made by willing hands from food raised right alongside the outdoor ampitheatre where you’re sitting?
Caw-calling all Parrotheads: The King of Marvin Gardens is already a Waikiki strip presence in his own right. Only this weekend, we’re not simply talking the Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise dine-in chains.
Literary / It’s been nearly 15 years since Gary Snyder, the award-winning American poet and writer, has graced the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus. “He’s a very personable and straightforward person [with] a lot of Zen training,” says Victor Kobayashi, former dean of UH’s Outreach College and friend of the poet.
Extras / Put on those Naruto headbands and break out your Ichigo Kurosaki masks! It’s time to flock with thousands of fans to the 8th annual Kawaii Kon, Hawaii’s only anime convention.
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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