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Upfront NewsFebruary 15, 2012 | 07:11 AMby Jen RussoAfter years of Hawaiian studies in grade school I absorbed more about the land owning habits of missionaries than what notable everyday individuals were doing–especially African Americans who lived here. Local historian Adesina Ogunelese shares this view. |
Upfront News 2February 15, 2012 | 10:50 AMby Jen RussoYou don't need to contribute to our island's landfill problems just because you have stuff that needs to go. Instead, how about donating all that useless but otherwise still viable hardware to the recycling day at Baldwin High School? |
Coconut WirelessFebruary 15, 2012 | 08:22 AMby Anthony PignataroWHAT OF THE BONES AT WAIALE?
Alexander & Baldwin, a landowner in Hawaii and the Mainland of some name, has a rather substantial project moving through the complex state and local approval process. It involves the proposed construction of 2,550 residential units, a shopping center and a commercial/industrial area on 545 acres of Central Maui's Waiale area. Such a project would add about 6,670 new residents to that region. |
Plugs and SlugsFebruary 15, 2012 | 10:57 AMby Jen RussoIt's been a long hiatus for Maui's gayest dance party and now it's high time for Maui Aids Foundation to get their groove back. Which is good because the Maui Aids Foundation Mardi Gras Party returns to the King Kamehameha Golf Club on March 16 with plenty of dance music, cocktails, food and entertainment. Cee Cee will host the party with performances from the Maui Roller Girls and the Girly Show. Music includes Men in Black II, AstroRaph and CIA. Prizes for best costume will be awarded so pimp out your best Mardi Gras get up and get out. An art show with artwork by James Hanlon II, Michael Horton, Kevin Omuro, Jennifer Owen, Sidney Yee will be ongoing at the dance-a-thon.
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Upfront News 3February 15, 2012 | 10:53 AMby Jen RussoFirst the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa got a facelift. Now the resort is getting a new Sales and Marketing Director: Nate Hardesty. Hardesty comes to the island after more than a decade with the Hyatt Hotels Brand, most recently at the Lake Tahoe Resort. |
News of the WeirdFebruary 15, 2012 | 08:30 AMby Chuck ShepherdDEMENTIAVILLE
Swiss health officials have authorized construction of an assisted-living "village" of 1950s-style homes and gardens designed to "remind" patients with Alzheimer's and similar afflictions of surroundings that they might actually recall and with which they might be more comfortable and secure than they are with modern life. The 150-resident grounds, near the city of Bern, will be similar to a Dutch facility set up in 2009 in a suburb of Amsterdam. "To reinforce an atmosphere of normality," reported London's The Independent in January, the Swiss caretakers will dress as gardeners, hairdressers, shop assistants and the like. |
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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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