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Stuart Coleman Q&A

The author of 'Eddie Would Go' searches for the soul of Hawaiian surfing

With its variety of magical waves, from Honolua Bay to Jaws, and its legacy of surfing pioneers, from Woody Brown to Laird Hamilton, Maui has proven to be one of the most important places in the evolution of surfing.

Coconut Wireless

That darn swine flu keeps making news (today's example: the AP reports UH "will forgo the traditional handshake during…commencement ceremonies" and will provide graduates with both diplomas and sanitary wipes). Interestingly, the media-perpetuated hysteria doesn't line up with public perception.

Rob Report

Second Opinion

Getting reader feedback in the era of instant communications

We live in a truly miraculous time, when electronic devices that fit in the palm of our hand can connect us with people and events in another room, down the block or halfway around the world.

LC Watch

Wiki Situation

It was recently brought to our attention that the LC has a Wikipedia page. Well, sort of.

Overheard

"Are we getting..."

By the Numbers

10.2 percent Amount by which visitor arrivals will decline on Maui this year, according to a new report from the University of Hawaii 2.7 percent Amount by which visitor arrivals will increase in 2010, according to the same report

News of the Weird

After three years of providing grants to a San Francisco-area multimedia coalition that includes a maker of sexualized torture videos, the California Employment Training Panel cut off funding, claiming that it had not realized the nature of what an outfit called "Kink.com" does.

Overheard this week

“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10

Maui TIME

“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”

-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941

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