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Maui CountyMystic Roots learns about Liquids the hard wayWhen The Mystic Roots Band flew from San Diego to grace the stage of Liquids Nightclub in Kihei on Nov. 14, they couldn’t have imagined what awaited them. |
LC WatchAnd now for another installment in the endlessly entertaining game of Ask LC Watch! This week’s question comes to us from someone named Jill, who posted it at Mauitime. |
Rob ReportQuickie updates on three Maui issuesSince our modern era caters to shorter attention spans, here’s a pre-holiday-season update of late-breaking developments (oops, sorry to use that word) on some key local issues... |
Coconut WirelessWEDNESDAY, Nov. 21: Well, Charlie Jencks finally got his Wailea 670 project passed out of the county Land Use Committee. All those years of bitching, moaning, crying, whining, letter-to-the-editor writing, public speaking and making big campaign contributions has finally paid off. |
The Maui 10WEINBERG NEAR TOP!: Every once in a while I look over The Maui 10 and see that the Weinberg Foundation is still on the list. And then I smile. I smile because I can’t remember for the life of me why I put them on the list in the first place. |
“‘The world is moving toward a new era—the Pacific era,’ says Hawaii’s Governor John A. Burns... |
MORE BAD NEWS: In interviews with reporters from McClatchy Newspapers in October, cemetery workers in Najaf, Iraq, lamented the recent downturn in violence in that city, as they admitted having grown accustomed to the income from the estimated 6,500 caskets a month that they serviced. |
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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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