Natalie McKinney smiles broadly, remembering the beginnings of ‘Ohia Productions. Founders Lisa Matsumoto and her cousin Michael Furuya had named the company after the native tree, McKinney says, “because the ‘ohia lehua–after the lava flow–it’s the first… [»Read]
“Drawing” is one of those words that carries particular weight and resonance, and a wide range of connotations. The word itself suggests both process and product, action and outcome, and many artists feel that while they may be constantly looking, they do not truly see… [»Read]
Punk promoter Jason Miller has a history with Asian Man Records founder Mike Park. While in the California-based band Skankin’ Pickle, Park says that Miller, then a young kid living across the street, used to come by peek into the garage to watch them practice. Miller… [»Read]
We’ve gotten so used to living in a “dot-com” world that we often forget to consider what that means for the nature of human connections. ComPRESS, the exhibition now at The ARTS at Marks Garage, asks us to rethink the implications of the way we connect, and… [»Read]
Adult FunHulaween 2009✸Art Of The Living Dead✸Legends Of Hip-Hop Masquerade BallGraveyard CuriositiesHalloween At The HyattHalloween Masquerade PartyTiki’s Halloweenee Bikini PartyMoulin Rouge Halloween PartyCross Dress Night✸Hallowbaloo Music & Arts… [»Read]
Sensual and celebratory, hula is a form of devotional performance that totally engages performers and audiences alike, and inspires a search for meaning on multiple levels. Given the performance dimension of this art, creating an exhibition about hula could have presented… [»Read]
They’re melodic, easy to remember, and they won’t let you forget their hooks. Layered with harmonies that declare importance, choruses and transitions will have you stuck with The Vivian Girls in your head even after one quick run through their frenetic yet soothing… [»Read]
To get at the truth, you sometimes have to stand it on its head. So in response to the old “truism” that “news travels fast,” artists participating in Slow News International have used snail mail to send news from their various international sites of life… [»Read]
The year was 1989 and the gold chain era of hip-hop was in full effect. Rap was still a separate entity from the mainstream music and artists like LL Cool J, Run DMC, Eric B. and Rakim, EPMD and Big Daddy Kane ruled the scene. Then three teens out of Long Island by the names… [»Read]
Kevin Chong, Lindsey Ozawa, Wade Ueoka. Their names may be unfamiliar, but these cooks helm three of Honolulu’s most recognizable restaurants in upscale dining: Chef Mavro, Nobu and Alan Wong’s, respectively. In this era of celebrity chefs, the relative anonymity of… [»Read]
If this were any other exhibition, one could more easily judge it solely on the basis of the works: a very well-bred, healthily diverse selection of works that combine a formal maturity with varying degrees of conceptual engagement. But the fact that this is an exhibition… [»Read]
Ask anyone who has spent hours staring at the trail of words behind a blinking cursor, repainted repeatedly over the same canvas or strummed clumsily through the chord progression of a song-in-progress, and she’ll tell you how solitary an artist’s pursuits can be. For… [»Read]
For some artists, art-making is about way-finding, a means of navigating a path through the complexities of life. The paths of four such artists converge in the exhibition Existential Pilgrims, now current at the Academy Art Center Gallery at Linekona. As the artists… [»Read]
When Nicholas Mason moved from Australia to New York City as an aspiring actor and filmmaker in the mid-1990s, he came to the inevitable realization–as so many young film students do–that making a movie audiences would actually see was a near-impossibility without studio… [»Read]
Sergio Goes, who died last summer at the age of 43, was one of Honolulu’s brightest lights. His work as a photographer, which appeared in these and many other pages, helped us to see ourselves as we are, and his remarkable gift for teaching, his spirit of adventure and… [»Read]
