The slow cadence of musician Andrew Bird’s commanding voice is enough to capture anyone’s attention from across the sea. In a phone interview with the Weekly from Hong Kong, where Bird is on his first musical tour of Asia, the respected multi-instrumentalist and whistler… [»Read]
John Butler is The Harold and Sandy NoborikawaDistinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Hawaii’s Shidler College of Business. We talked to him about the small business climate in Hawaii, how challenging it is and whether anything is changing.… [»Read]
Rep. Cynthia Thielen is one of a dozen legislators from across the nation meeting with top White House officials on renewable energy issues this week. The chosen ones are members of the Coalition of Legislators for Energy Action Now. The Weekly caught up with Thielen, a… [»Read]
Smooth, crooning, charismatic Al Green is a musical legend who needs no introduction. The Weekly caught up with him via phone ahead of his Jan. 23 performance in Honolulu. I want to tell you how sorry I was to hear about [renowned producer] Willie Mitchell’s passing…. [»Read]
This week marks the launch of the Experts at the Palace lecture series at ‘Iolani Palace. Presented by the University of Hawaii’s Historic Preservation Program, this year’s series focuses on the Hawaiian monarchy and the kingdom. The first event, set for Thursday… [»Read]
M. Ward is the kind of musician that seems to have it all figured out. He has a successful solo career, he is in the supergroup Monsters of Folk, he collaborates with talented artists like Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis and the members of My Morning Jacket. He’s also the “Him”… [»Read]
Maxine Burkett, an associate professor at the University of Hawaii’s Richardson School of Law, is currently attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Burkett also serves as the inaugural director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation… [»Read]
In October, local advocacy group Media Council Hawaii filed a lawsuit aimed at halting the consolidation of local television stations KHNL, KFVE (K5) and KGMB, on the grounds that it violated federal antitrust law. The Media Council asked the Federal Communications Commission… [»Read]
Last week, the Weekly spoke with Nancy Aleck, executive director of Hawaii People’s Fund, an umbrella social service organization that helps to fund non-profit groups actively working for social justice. We asked Aleck how non-profits, particularly the grassroots groups… [»Read]
As U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka approaches the 20-year milestone of his time in the Senate–some of those years highly productive, others less so–the 85-year-old chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs says he’s still looking forward. In honor of this week’s… [»Read]
When Kathryn “Kathy X” Xian isn’t busy as a filmmaker or performing duties as Legal Aid Society of Hawaii’s director of communications and development, she is the “non-executive director” of Girl Fest Hawaii–an annual event advocating violence prevention… [»Read]
Artist Walid Raad was born in Lebanon in 1967 and lived through the early years of its civil war (1975–1990) before being sent to the U. S. in 1983. Since 2002, Raad has been a member of the faculty at Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. A 2009 Guggenheim Fellow… [»Read]
David Helvarg is an award-winning journalist who once covered wars in Central America and Ireland, and now focuses on writing about the oceans. The San Francisco-based activist has written several books about the need to defend our marine environment. His most recent book,… [»Read]
With the streets of Hawaii as his canvas, underground artist Katch One was once a snot-nosed tagger who roamed all sides of the island to satisfy his art fix. Not anymore. With years of international acclaim behind him and a new 256-page artbook in print, Hawaii’s… [»Read]
Park Chan-wook was studying philosophy and working as a journalist and film critic when he switched gears and began to make films of his own, releasing Moon Is the Sun’s Dream in 1992. Now one of South Korea’s most successful directors, winning the Grand Jury Prize… [»Read]
