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Before 'Eddie Would Go'

Thirty-one years after the Hokule'a incident, Eddie Aikau's legacy lives on

Thirty-one years ago this month, a 31-year-old Maui native became one of Hawaii's most celebrated heroes, while laying down his life for his crewmen aboard the Hokule'a, a replica of the ancient Polynesian canoes used by Hawaii's first inhabitants.

Coconut Wireless

I've been hearing rumblings from different corners about HR875, a bill currently slithering through the halls of Washington.

Rob Report

Special Delivery

Kula Fields brings farm fresh local food to your door

There is a growing awareness that too much of the food we consume is imported. The reasons for favoring a local diet are many: it's fresher and more nutritious; it supports and helps diversify the local economy; it avoids fuel spent on shipping.

LC Watch

Last Dance?

If you read this column even occasionally, you're undoubtedly familiar with the controversy surrounding the LC's dancing rules.

'Click' of the Week

We understand that cosmetic surgery can occasionally serve a noble purpose. But let's get real: the majority of these procedures are done with vanity and cash as the only motivators.

News of the Weird

In January 2008, London's The Sun found a practitioner of a new art form in which a design is inked, with a tattoo needle, into the sclera, which is the white part of the eyeball.

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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