Entertainment
Art

Face to face

Schaefer Portrait Challenge

Schaefer Portrait Challenge / From the first imprinting of infancy to the constancy of long-term intimacy, interacting with someone (even oneself) face-to-face remains one of the most immediate and complex acts of human communication. Portraits–those works of art that mediate the face-to-face relationship–create… [»Read]


Comedy

Whose venue is it anyway?

Comedy
Comes with video

Comedy / It’s heresy to some, but for me, growing up as a teen in Minnesota, improv began with–and owes its dues to–Dudley Riggs and the Brave New Workshop on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. Oh sure, some will cite Viola Spolin and Del Close and the whole Chicago thing, some… [»Read]


Dance

Dance for the Earth

Skygate at Honolulu Hale
Comes with video

Skygate at Honolulu Hale / At the center of the Skygate statue of Honolulu Hale stands a woman draped in an aqua gown. Water pours forth from her headdress and gloved fingertips. She is a living fountain–and the centerpiece of IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre’s latest creation “The Living Earth.”… [»Read]


Entertainment

Things to do on First Friday when you’re broke

First Friday

First Friday / Turner overdrive Bethel Street Gallery celebrates one of its own-ers this weekend with a show featuring Mark Turner. The painter and gallery partner’s solo exhibition bursts with the vibrance and power befitting its summertime opening. “I tried to take the pressure… [»Read]


Music

A new classic: Britsh-style Reuben

Motion Music Festival

Motion Music Festival / A day before setting off on a European tour earlier this month, Ladytron cofounder and DJ Reuben Wu talked with the Weekly via phone, speaking calmly and with his Scouser lilt. While it’s common for international citizens to look down on decidedly unworldly Americans,… [»Read]


Film

Taste the rainbow

Film

Film / For its 20th anniversary celebration, the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival breezes back into town this week with films from l2 countries, dance, music, a “gayla” with tiki bar and two special guests: Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) and writer-performer… [»Read]


Art

Superpower on canvas

The Architecture of Change: Exploring the Past Within the Present

The Architecture of Change: Exploring the Past Within the Present / Artists Hawkins Biggins and Scott Groeniger share a China connection, made explicit in their exhibition at the HPU Art Gallery at the Kaneohe campus. Both focus on the many associations that circulate around Chinese culture and each has a distinctly different but still… [»Read]


Community

Dance dance revolution

Community

Community / There’s a party going down this weekend at Loft, the Hotel Street hipster hangout-of-the-moment that’s also the current tenant at what was once Wo Fat, one of Chinatown’s most archetypal addresses. It’s the perfect setting, says artist/attorney/activist/party… [»Read]


War is hell

The endless fascination with Francisco Goya’s body of work is, for many, founded in the Spanish painter’s ability to surprise, tease and horrify all at once. A famous and favorite prototype of his playful wickedness is “Se repulen,” (they spruce… [»Read]


Words

Oral fixation

Moonlight Storytellers

Moonlight Storytellers / Victoria Dworkin’s home in Kailua is a comfortable one. The outside walls are a soft cream color accented with a light blue trim. The ubiquitous piles of shoes and slippers wait outside the front door. The interior walls are filled with photographs and carved ducks…. [»Read]


Music

Don’t change your number

Music

Music / Proust Questionnaire excerpt: What is your favorite sound? Pose this question to those familiar with indie rock band Rilo Kiley or snippets of certain Postal Service songs, and the answer may be, “Jenny Lewis’ voice.” That voice is like a hypnotic bell… [»Read]


A HIFF of fresh air

Hawaii International Film Festival

Hawaii International Film Festival / This year’s Spring Showcase edition of the Hawaii International Film Festival, which opens Friday and runs through April 9, features more than 20 films, with the usual mix of culture and eclecticism. In addition to the films scheduled ([www.hiff.org]), there… [»Read]


Theater

Through a glass, darkly

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie / A delicate piece, fragile, haunting, simultaneously concealing and revealing, powerful and devastating, uplifting in an odd sense—that humans will suffer yet survive, but at a cost—Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is a distinctly American… [»Read]


Community

Off to the races

Community
Web Exclusive

Community / Two recliners are shoved into the front corner of the Irish Rose Saloon’s stage. They are overstuffed, brown and white, old and tattered at the corners. I have no doubt that after last call, when the final patron has stumbled off to home or a hotel or some assignation,… [»Read]