Kanu Hawai’i, the volunteer organization founded on three questions–what do we love about Hawa’i, what concerns us about the future, and what can we do about it?–is leading local participation in Saturday’s National Day of Action. The goal is to demonstrate commitment… [»Read]
It’s somewhat curious that we often treasure most the artifacts that we can never fully understand. It’s true on many scales and from many eras, from Easter Island’s staid mo’ai to the so-called Sator Square and, from more recent history, the locally treasured hale pili…. [»Read]
Last Friday, the gutters flanking Merchant Street were dotted with cigarette butts, a squashed Styrofoam cup, shards from a broken CD, a flattened empty pack of Kool cigarettes and other bits of trash. All, sadly, par for the course. On this afternoon, however, the familiar… [»Read]
More than two months after photographer, artist and entrepreneur Sergio Goes’ death in July, one still hears talk of his inspiring embrace of life and art, and of his ability to share those passions with everyone from friends to the most casual acquaintances to his beloved… [»Read]
Hawai’i’s primary election takes place Sat., September 20. Polling places will be open from 7am–6pm. Hawai’i conducts a single-party primary, meaning that voters must declare a party affiliation in order to receive a ballot. Neither of the two biggest issues facing… [»Read]
The line outside of Coffee Talk was benefit-buzzing on Friday, Sept. 5, in celebration of the return to Honolulu of Jo Kapololu, former proprietor of Kapahulu’s Java Java Cafe and the experimental Lizard Loft. Teenagers with enthusiasm worked the door and the art of persuasion…. [»Read]
A group of concerned citizens is one step closer to its goal of saving the historic sailing vessel Falls of Clyde after meeting with Bishop Museum officials last week. Bruce McEwan, president of the Friends of Falls of Clyde, says he is optimistic that a deal can… [»Read]
Waikiki Nei, the Las Vegas-style showroom and production, finally opened in August after numerous delays, along with its nightclub Level 4. The venue, built in the remnants of the Aloha Showroom, has been lauded for its technical wizardry. But several workers,… [»Read]
It wasn’t too long ago that repairmen started disappearing. Like telephone booths, Polaroid cameras and drive-in movie theaters, they were nearly gone before we had a chance to notice their absence, because most of us had already stopped looking for them. But a handful of… [»Read]
On December 5, 1981, 15 Vietnamese men, women and children from Phu Khanh, Nha Trang set out on a boat 35.5 ft. long, 3.5 ft. high and 8 ft. wide to escape the communist government established in their country after the fall of Saigon. This particular boat, which soon after… [»Read]
Speeding across the waters off Kaua’i’s west coast in a Zodiac raft, the morning breaks silver and pink. The inflatable 17-passenger watercraft skims over the flat sea past the cane fields of Kaumakani and a pod of spinner dolphins before we reach Polihale Beach at the western… [»Read]
At a meeting tonight in Kaunakakai, community leaders will outline a plan to end decades of acrimonious relations between the island’s residents and its main landowner, the Moloka’i Ranch, by forcing it to sell–at a fair market price–to a local non-profit organization…. [»Read]
For the thousands who stood calmly in line under a light breeze and an afternoon sun at Ke’ehi Lagoon Beach Park last week to welcome presidential candidate Barack Obama back to Hawai’i, the electricity of the grassroots campaign that shot the Illinois senator to the heights… [»Read]
When more than 1,000 ancient burials were unearthed in 1989 to make way for the Ritz-Carlton resort at Honokahua, Maui, it caused such a public uproar that the state Legislature passed a bill in its very next session that changed the way Hawaiian burials would be handled…. [»Read]
On the last day of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council’s June meeting, when most of the big items had been heard and most members of the public had gone elsewhere, the council approved a directive that sounds nearly identical to the state’s newly created ‘aha… [»Read]
