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Upfront NewsAugust 04, 2011 | 07:31 AMby Anthony PignataroOprah Winfrey owns estates in Montecito, California and Fisher Island, Florida; houses in Lavallette, New Jersey, Douglasville, Georgia and Telluride, Colorado; and assorted properties on the islands of Antigua and Maui. The latter includes 100 acres in Hana, 1,000 acres Upcountry (which boasts a small, terribly exclusive 12-room bed and breakfast) and a four-mile road... |
Upfront News 2August 04, 2011 | 07:41 AMby Jen RussoKihei just got a little greener. Last Friday was the official grand opening of the first phase of the town's new 44-acre park. The South Maui community started asking for a park in the late 1980s, and Mayor Alan Arakawa said this has been the work of four administrations now... |
Coconut WirelessAugust 04, 2011 | 07:34 AMby Anthony PignataroFirst the bad news: The Na Koa Ikaika professional baseball team is on an eight-game losing streak, having lost most recently (on July 31) to Jose Canseco's Yuma Scorpions 12-4. And the really bad news: in early July the 2nd Circuit Court ruled that Hawaii Baseball LLC, the California-based owner of the Na Koa Ikaika team, owes... |
News of the WeirdAugust 04, 2011 | 07:39 AMby Chuck ShepherdThomas Heathfield was a well-paid banking consultant with a promising career in Maidenhead, England, but gave it up this year to move to South Africa and endure rigorous training as a "sangoma" ("witch doctor"). After five months of studying siSwati language, sleeping in the bush, hunting for animal parts, vomiting up... |
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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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