Film / On a big summer wave at Point Panic, regular Barry Holt drops in on 56-year-old bodysurfing legend Mark Cunningham, who’s already deep in the barrel. “Ho!
Holiday Gift Guide / The Art of Experience We can’t think of anything better to give this holiday season than the gift of experience. It’s a chance to enable someone to learn another language, or take an overdue art class, or to investigate the art of beer, wine, poetry or the sustainable scarf.
Q&A / Last week, fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg visited her brand new haute spot in Hawaii–the first DVF store in the Islands. She spoke to the Weekly about her signature wrap dresses, Hillary Clinton, the secret to confidence and why she doesn’t find it in plastic surgery.
Holiday Gift Guide / Techie Toys & Joys The techie: one of the hardest humans to gift for. With their e-encyclopedia droid-like knowledge on the latest and greatest electronics, it’s not enough to simply purchase the most popular item on the market–they either already own it, intentionally don’t (as they try to stay ahead of the curve), or to them it’s yesterday’s news.
Loud and Clear Color Urbanears Techies live in their own dark world. Whether in the corner of crowded Wi-Fi coffee shops or their mother’s basements (JK!), you often see them zoning out on a mysterious machine wearing a blank expression and the universal Do Not Disturb sign: a set of earphones.
S-E-E It to B-E-L-I-E-V-E It Nintendo 3DS This is not your dad’s Nintendo. In fact, it’s not even your Nintendo.
OMG, Honest to Blog?! Sony Bloggie MP4 Cameras Everyone has one: The Friend Who Blogs.
Email interviews are usually impersonal, dry, lacking in zzha zzha zzhoo. So when I had the “opportunity” to exchange e-mails with one of my all time favorite songwriters, I was a little bummed and a bit skeptical that some publicist was going to insert agenda-inspired comments as a boring reply.
Raining Gifts of Fortitude Let’s take a look at the weather outside now. It’s currently raining and cloudy in southern Honolulu while northern Honolulu is warm and clear.
Black Friday can be a nightmare. Overcrowded parking lots and shopping centers, self-entitled shoppers hustling over the final item of that hot mass-produced gift.
Big Island Goat Cheese The age old gift that never loses our affection is cheese. But since Big Island Goat Cheese (which offers two types of soft cheeses in flavors that range from garlicy dill to macadamia nut basil pesto) isn’t available for retail on Oahu, we suggest a gift certificate to a restaurant that serves their gourmet curds.
Music / Once the downtown sunlight becomes sufficiently dim, the three members of Shopping List wander one by one into the Mercury Bar. Besides communicating through what seems to be their internal Chinatown sundials (the trio only seems to surface at night), they also unwittingly match their outfits to run the gamut of plaid.
Theater / It’s the age-old tale of boy meets girl, boy loves girl, but then runs into trouble because of his man-eating plant. Little Shop of Horrors comes to Manoa Valley Theatre and the comedy-musical is a horror hoot.
Outside / I’m a guy with a mind/body problem. A bookworm as a child, I loved hiking trips but suffered literary withdrawal pangs.
Q&A / Daybreak, birds, hunting horns, prayers to Allah, the ethereal stillness in the mind of the Buddha, reflecting pools, airy Moorish archways, flute notes prefiguring Close Encounters, human voicings, echoes, sundown, starlight, OM . .
Star-Advertiser columnist Lee Cataluna just released her first novel Three Years on Doreen’s Sofa. She took some time out from studying for her MFA in Creative Writing at UC-Riverside Palm Desert Campus to talk with the Weekly about the book, her writing process and her impending cult status in prisons.
Halloween has been perpetually around the creaky corner for weeks now. Odds are if you’re scouring this issue of the Weekly, you’re probably prepared.
There is something extremely attractive about a person who, immersed in the art of her father during her years of youth, decides to take up the craft herself. Aren’t we all helplessly enchanted by the story of the torch being passed from Dylan to Dylan, Coppola to Coppola, Marley to Marley(s)?
“I’m very excited about the chronic,” says rapper Wiz Khalifa about his upcoming trip to Honolulu for a show at the Blaisdell. With an album named Rolling Papers out earlier this year on Atlantic Records, the Pittsburgh-raised military brat is not kidding about his love for the green.
In this age of economic downturn, it’s awe-inspiring when something–anything–in the local arts community lasts for 31 years. Hell, it’s shocking when something in the arts and entertainment sector lasts for even 31 days.
Internet / In this age of Internet Equality, it’s somehow surprising that a half Okinawan, half Japanese kid from Hilo can chuck his college career to become a star simply by cracking jokes in front of a computer at the ripe old age of 21–which is exactly what happened to Ryan Higa. “I started in Hilo with my neighborhood friends,” says Higa.
Music / The anti-war movement has an associated body of protest songs that, arguably, illuminated with Beethoven and detonated with Dylan. But it was black convict and social outcast Lead Belly who may have started the tradition as we know it today–disguising “Goodnight Irene” as a folk song and taking his lead from expertly crafted slave songs.
Film / Adopting an Italian attitude, let’s cut to the chase: the 8th Annual Cinema Italiano in Hawaii Film Festival’s opening night film Welcome to the South (Benvenuti al sud) and Fortapàsc are the obvious crowd favorites. The first is a broad feel-good cultural comedy-of-errors pleaser; the latter a based-on-a-true story ‘85 period crime drama where rivaling Camorra clans come up against an investigative journalist at a small local newspaper.
Book / I am listening to Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. You know the main theme: flutes, drums, chants and war cries, and then the mariachi-surf guitar comes in.
Music / No one enjoys interrupting a musician’s Skype chat with his one- and five-year-old daughters. However, deadlines approach, and this interview must go on.
After retiring from public service in 2002, Ben Cayetano seemed to be taking it easy on the political scene–until 2005, that is, when then-Mayor Mufi Hannemann revived the long-lapsed idea of a Honolulu heavy rail project. Needless to say, Cayetano did not concur.
Last Thursday, the House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection had a busy session hearing several controversial bills relating to geothermal energy. Chairman Denny Coffman introduced HB2689, which seeks to exempt slim-hole, or exploratory, geothermal test wells from any sort of environmental review as is currently required under Chapter 343 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
On Feb. 1, the Hawaii State House Agriculture Committee heard testimony on HB2703, dubbed the Food Self-Sufficiency Bill.
Mega-developer Castle & Cooke has re-filed an application with the Land Use Commission (LUC) seeking to convert approximately 768 acres of Ag land–currently in cultivation–into a “master-planned community” entitled Koa Ridge. If successful, the project will consist of two parcels–Koa Ridge Makai and Castle & Cooke Waiawa.
Office of Hawaiian Affairs holds a second round of community meetings to discuss the latest updates on the Kakaako land settlement. Stevenson Middle School, 1202 Prospect St., Wed., 2/8, 6:30pm; Waimanalo Community Center, 41-253 Ilauhole St., Thu., 2/9, 6:30pm City Council committees on Zoning and Planningand Transportation will take public testimony on agenda items.
[Feb. 1: “Kinda Kona”] The trade secret argument would fall to the wayside if it would read “10 percent Kona Coffee 90 percent Foreign Coffee,” or something to that effect.
If they are choosing the cheapest coffee from anywhere, then the “trade secret” is that they are adding crap and not a sp
[Feb. 1: “Rail Boss Wanted”] $300,000?
[Jan. 4: “Boss GMO] Dean Okimoto is a sell out and a criminal.
Monsanto is a major component of the NWO drive to reduce the world’s population in a global genocide program that includes the poisoning of the water, air and food. This criminal activity must be stopped.
Lets be real here, Dean Okimoto is not interested in anything other then keeping the status quo of industrial Ag. He is merely a puppet, playing it safe, a small game of following the money and corrupt political trail.
[Jan. 25: “Weaving the Future on Molokai”] Good luck to all those who possess the ability to balance long-term vision with short term opportunity.
[Dec. 21: “Underground Railroad”] This is, indeed, a “lunatic project,” as pointed out by a professor at the University of Hawaii.
This is such a bad idea for the overall architecture of Oahu. I visit here because my family is here and part of the charm is taking the bus or driving.
I cannot imagine how anyone can think this is a smart idea. I’ve lived in places with rail, but this Honolulu Rail Transit is stupid, plain stupid.
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