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Upfront NewsTouching tales and provocative mysteries flicker on the screen
at this year's Hana Film FestSeptember 30, 2010 | 12:51 PMSomething special has been happening in Maui Nui's most Hawaiian outposts, on Lanai, Molokai and—this weekend, October 1-3—in the Valley Isle's own Hana town. For eight years, the Hana Film Festival has been a grassroots extravaganza showcasing a slew of local filmmakers, accompanied by |
Coconut WirelessSeptember 30, 2010 | 12:23 PMby Jacob ShaferThe recent revelation, first reported in The Maui News, that Elle Cochran was involved in an attempted robbery sixteen years ago raised a number of questions. Chief among them: what, if anything, will this do to her bid for the West Maui Council seat? Cochran got the most votes in the September 20 primary and |
Spin CycleSeptember 30, 2010 | 01:16 PMby Jacob ShaferThis week, video retailer Blockbuster Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company is almost $1 billion in debt, but said in a release that it plans to keep its 3,000 U.S. locations open—including 20 in Hawaii and two on Maui—while it evaluates |
By the NumbersSeptember 30, 2010 | 01:11 PMby Jacob Shafer$24.1 million: Reported sale price of Maui Land & Pineapple's Kapalua Bay Golf Course; the course was purchased by TY Management Corp., the same company that |
News of the WeirdSeptember 30, 2010 | 01:37 PMby Chuck ShepherdIngrid Paulicivic filed a lawsuit in September against Laguna Beach, California, gynecologist Red Alinsod over leg burns she bafflingly acquired during her 2009 hysterectomy—a procedure that was topped off by the doctor's gratuitous |
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“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 |
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“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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