EXPLOITING VILLAINS In February, two teams of South Korean researchers announced cancer-fighting breakthroughs–by taking lessons from how two of medicine’s most vexing, destructive organisms (diarrhea-causing salmonella bacteria and the rabies virus) can access often-unconquerable cancer cells. In journal articles, biologist Jung-joon Min of Chonnam National University … [Read more...] about NOTW: Open Carry idiocy, helpful salmonella and the crime of excessive snark
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Keb Mo and Lahaina Plantation Days and Pinktober and Fall Harvest Festival
THURSDAY, OCT. 17 ANNE GLOVER’S STRING FIGURES – For Youth and Teen Read Week, the Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS) is hosting Canadian storyteller Anne Glover. You can catch her this Thursday for a morning storytelling session at the Makawao Public Library. Glover tells stories with string figures, and has gone on to become a hit show at schools, libraries and … [Read more...] about Keb Mo and Lahaina Plantation Days and Pinktober and Fall Harvest Festival
Get Tattooed By Pride Ink During Their Inked For Good Benefit And You Can Help People Suffering From Cancer
Ever been inked for charity? Well, now’s your chance. This Friday, Boze Kapoi’s Pride Ink will put on their annual Inked for Good charity fundraiser. Kapoi, Kiha Kaina and Thomas Juan (who is flying out from Las Vegas just for this event) will be tattooing for cancer care in a 12-hour marathon session and all the proceeds will go to Maui Memorial Medical Center’s cancer … [Read more...] about Get Tattooed By Pride Ink During Their Inked For Good Benefit And You Can Help People Suffering From Cancer
Eh Brah! The Key To A Good Maui Vacation
A big thank-you to the kind woman on Big Beach who found our car key in a plastic bag in the water and asked around, then gave it to the lifeguard. We had scraped together enough money to take our kids to Maui for a week after a long, hard time at the end of my cancer treatment. We are all so tired and freaked out, we do things like swim with car keys in our pockets. It was … [Read more...] about Eh Brah! The Key To A Good Maui Vacation
The Throwdowns, Moth and Sounds of Addiction Team Up for Surfrider Foundation Benefit
Saturday (June 26), 8pm, Mulligan’s on the Blue, Wailea, $10 advance / $15 door “Woo hoo” for The Throwdowns and “nana nana boo boo,” to the naysayers. I can't help but feel utterly celebratory for this band--one that is as sugar-and-fire as the torched tops of creme brulee. More than simply talented and spirited, they're just some of the gosh-darned nicest people you could … [Read more...] about The Throwdowns, Moth and Sounds of Addiction Team Up for Surfrider Foundation Benefit