Remember Honolulu-opoly? It was one of what I’ve since learned were countless localized versions of the iconic capitalist board game, but back in small kid time I found it amazing that Milton-Bradley knew so much about our islands. A lot more than I did at age 7, anyway…. [»Read]
The William S. Richardson School of Law graduated its 2009 class on Sunday, under the happy countenance of its eponymous and emotional leader and in a wash of good old “Manoa Mist.” It was more of a Manoa downpour, really, and as the heavens opened up those of us… [»Read]
We’re introducing a new nightlife columnist this week, though her byline will be familiar to many of you. Christa Wittmier, known to her thousands of online readers, followers and fans as “Super CW,” will be writing on the entertainment and nightlife scene in Social… [»Read]
At some point in the next 36 hours, a final effort will be made in the Hawaii Senate to bring House Bill 444, the civil unions bill, to a vote. The move will likely come either in the form of a motion by Sen. Les Ihara to pull the bill from the Judiciary Committee… [»Read]
Regular readers may recall with some sadness the recent arson that destroyed the hale at Hoa ‘Aina O Makaha, the Waianae organic farm and community center which serves students and visitors from the area and from around the island every day. Sadly,… [»Read]
No one ever accused a newspaper of being above self-promotion—just look at the New York Times coverage of its five Pulitzer Prize awards this week—and Honolulu Weekly is game, especially when it’s for a good cause. If you’re reading… [»Read]
This week we offer our Sustainability Guide, Honolulu Weekly’s annual look at people, organizations and institutions working to make our community more, well, sustainable. In the past, that’s often meant a focus on environmentalism specifically, but as… [»Read]
Against long odds, it appears the civil unions fight will go at least one more round. The Honolulu Advertiser reported this week that senators are considering an amendment put forward by gay rights advocates to remove the word “marriage” from House Bill… [»Read]
Guessing at the outcome of U.S. Supreme Court cases is a fool’s errand. Common sense rarely enters into it. When they aren’t being decided by reference to obscure and decades-old precedent, Constitutional cases often hang on things like the placement of a comma,… [»Read]
On Monday, a group of interfaith clergy and lay leaders gathered at the foot the Capitol’s Queen Liliuokalani statue to make their case for the equality of same-sex partnerships. Rabbi Peter Schaktman of Temple Emanu-El was first to speak. “What we know… [»Read]
Good to see Local 5’s Eric Gill taking a stand on civil unions this week. The treasurer of Hawaii’s powerful hotel and restaurant workers union led a group of community leaders in calling for the Senate to pass HB 444. Tuesday’s statement was co-signed… [»Read]
The pono police are at it again, and this time they’ve got badges. “We cannot let such distortions go unchecked,” Lt. Gov. James Aiona intoned. “I find it very offensive,” State Tourism Liason Marsha Weinert said. “That’s just not… [»Read]
Here we are again, Hawaii, arguing once more over who gets to love whom. One of the women profiled in our cover story this week, UH-Manoa American studies professor Kathleen Sands, has more patience for this stuff than I do, which is really something when you… [»Read]
It wasn’t a surprise, but then again it’s always a surprise, isn’t it? No matter how many three-dot items or nostalgic columns you read over the past couple of years, if you had a television in Hawaii during the 1970s and ’80s, the news that… [»Read]
Like many of us, I’ve been fooling around with social networking sites for a while now. Somehow, though, I never really got the whole Web 2.0 thing. It seemed fun, but a lot less important than the Wired magazines of the world made it out to be. More… [»Read]
