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Upfront NewsJune 20, 2012 | 08:01 AMby Jen RussoEver wanted to see your name up in lights? Is walking the red carpet down the aisle at your Hollywood A-list wedding just a dream? Of course you do, and Joe Cortez, Jason Salmo, Alex Ragonton, Glen Cabrera, Creighton Rodrigues and Denver Cortez can help. |
Coconut WirelessJune 20, 2012 | 08:12 AMby Anthony PignataroSENATE SHENANIGANS
There are 11 people running active campaigns to succeed US Senator Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, but the biggest three names in the race seem to be rolling over everyone else.
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Upfront News 2June 20, 2012 | 08:03 AMby Anthony PignataroThe promise made back on Feb. 23, 2011 was nothing less than the fulfillment of a fundamental civil right. "This signing today of this measure says to all of the world that they are welcome," said Governor Neil Abercrombie, finally making it legal for the State of Hawaii to legalize same-sex civil unions. "That everyone is a brother or sister here in paradise." |
June 20, 2012 | 08:10 AMby Anthony PignataroMUFI HANNEMANN
Running for: US Congress (Hawaii's 2nd District), Democratic nomination
Running against: Rafael Del Castillo, Tulsi Gabbard, Esther Kia'aina, Bob Marx, Miles Shiratori
Birthplace: Kalihi, Hawaii |
Upfront News 3June 20, 2012 | 08:06 AMby Jen RussoWith more than a decade spent making one-of-a-kind couture garments, Larissa Williams has signature boho-street chic style to offer Maui brides looking for a fresh interpretation to island style. |
News of the WeirdJune 20, 2012 | 08:15 AMby Chuck ShepherdEVEN MASS MURDERERS NEED FRIENDS
Norway is home to perhaps the most inmate-friendly prison in the world, but the correctional system has an imminent crisis, as Anders Behring Breivik (the confessed killer of 77 people last year) is nearing formal conviction and sentencing. Officials fear the sociopathic Breivik will try to kill inmates to add to his toll, yet Norwegian law forbids solitary confinement as cruel. Consequently, according to a May report by Norway's Verdens Gang newspaper, the officials have begun a search to select, hire and train appropriate "friends" to hang out with Breivik behind bars to win his trust and prevent further mayhem. Among Breivik's favorite recreational distractions: chess and hockey.
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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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