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Hazardous conditions

Maui's first MMA event in seven months hits Lahaina like a punch to the face

The popularity of Mixed Martial Arts has skyrocketed over the last decade and Maui fans were hungry for action Saturday night as they descended on the Lahaina Civic Center for Hazardous Warfare. The event featured eight bouts with fighters from all over the islands and included a

Coconut Wireless

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 Ah, 2008—the memories we shared. We've already dedicated enough ink to retrospectives and wrap-ups, so I'll just add mine to the chorus of voices saying: good riddance. It was, all in all, a year to forget, even if it was punctuated by occasional moments of hope. (Or at least a somewhat hope-like emotion. Maybe more hope mixed with dread. We'll call it "drope.") At any rate, let's all welcome 2009 with

Overheard

Click of the week

Everybody loves time-lapse photography—what's the deal with that? The sappy answer would be that it appeals to our desire for immortality, our yearning to see the big picture. The more cynical explanation is that it stimulates our

News of the Weird

CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS KIND: Aggressive police questioning of a weak-willed suspect can produce an occasional false confession, but experts now believe that six men in a single case, and four in another, confessed to group crimes they did not commit, even though

Troubletown

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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