Last fall, Oahu’s Kimi Werner was featured in Outside magazine, a thrill for anyone. But when the spearfishing champion and waterwoman highlighted it on social media, her excitement was not as much about the article, but about its author, Susan Casey. When she learned that Casey would be writing the story, Werner posted, “I just about lost my mind!” Praising her as “a woman … [Read more...] about Author Susan Casey’s fascination with oceans shows no sign of ebbing
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Local Wild Food Challenge at Lumeria Maui
The Local Wild Food Challenge will happen at Lumeria Maui on Saturday, Nov. 11. Maui’s inaugural wild food challenge is a culinary adventure competition featuring local celebrity chefs like Sunny Savage, Gary Johnson (Hana Ranch), Isaac Bancaco (Andaz Maui), Kimi Werner (Oahu Spear), Brian Etheridge and more. Chef competitors will locally source all wild ingredients from … [Read more...] about Local Wild Food Challenge at Lumeria Maui
Maui Film Festival Weekend Wrap-up: Tastes of Chocolate and Wailea
On Friday night we booked a dinner reservation at Gannon’s, partly for the access to Maui Film Festival parking and the VIP section at Celestial Cinema via their “Dinner and a Movie” package. Barely making it on time to the 8pm screening of Kuleana, we managed to see Rick Chatenever’s interview of Pierce Brosnan in an overview of his career, his pride being Irish, living on … [Read more...] about Maui Film Festival Weekend Wrap-up: Tastes of Chocolate and Wailea
The Party Starts Now: Maui Film Festival Specials Events Line Up
There's nothing more remarkable than sitting out on the grass in Wailea enjoying a Maui Film Festival movie under the canopy of galaxies with stars twinkling overhead. Each night at the Celestial Cinema, a celebrity is honored with one of the festival’s achievement awards. What's more, the festival has a stunning line-up of culinary galas. And there's a selection of gripping … [Read more...] about The Party Starts Now: Maui Film Festival Specials Events Line Up
Maui Film Festival: Maui spearfishing champ Kimi Werner featured in ‘Fishpeople’
During her TEDxMaui talk in 2014, champion freediver and spearfisher Kimi Werner explained her key to survival in the deep sea–and in life. “When you feel the need to speed up, slow down,” she said. Born and raised on Maui, Werner spoke of how the ocean provided food for her family, how she tagged along as a young girl when her father spearfished and, later, how she longed to … [Read more...] about Maui Film Festival: Maui spearfishing champ Kimi Werner featured in ‘Fishpeople’