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Upfront NewsNovember 22, 2011 | 07:54 AMby Jen RussoTEDxMaui is right around the corner and Leslie Wilcox has accepted the invitation to host the January event. Wilcox is a longtime broadcast and print journalist in Hawaii with on-air and management positions in newsrooms in the CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates. She is also PBS Hawaii's CEO and president, and hosts the weekly PBS Hawaii program Long Story Short.
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Coconut WirelessNovember 22, 2011 | 08:02 AMby Anthony PignataroWHEN PIGS SAIL
One of E. B. White's most moving essays is "Death of a Pig," which ran in the January 1948 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The story details White's attempt to raise a pig for slaughter, only to become despondent when the animal suddenly becomes ill before being properly fattened. White is fully intent on slicing the pig's throat and turning him into "smoked ham and bacon," but he also takes pains to ease the animal's suffering and, indeed, is desperate to keep him alive. |
Upfront News 2November 22, 2011 | 07:56 AMby Jen RussoThis will be the ninth year that the bartenders at Hula Grill will hui up their tip jar for charity. This year the funds go to 70-year-old Mary Davy of Hilo, who was recently the victim of a violent attack and burglary in her home. |
Upfront News 3November 22, 2011 | 07:58 AMby Jen RussoFashionistas will soon flock to the Four Seasons Maui for home furnishings and couture threads. Retailer Seaside Luxe operates the 22 Knots Boutique inside the Four Seasons and recently partnered with Missoni to bring its full line of Italian decor and ready-to-wear apparel to Maui and the Big Island at Hualalai. |
News of the WeirdNovember 22, 2011 | 08:06 AMby Chuck ShepherdWOMB SERVICE
At press time, Melinda Arnold, 34, was waiting to hear whether her mother would be accepted as an organ donor for her daughter–with the organ being the mom's womb. Melinda (a nurse from Melbourne, Australia) was born without one (though with healthy ovaries and eggs), and if the transplant by Swedish surgeon Mats Brannstrom of Gothenburg University is successful, and Melinda later conceives, her baby will be nurtured in the very same uterus in which Melinda, herself, was nurtured. Womb transplants have been performed in rats and, with limited success, from a deceased human donor. |
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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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