Come out for a evening of bingo fun for a change to win great prizes. Must be 12 years and older
GIANT GAME-ON!
Thu and Mon. Come and play the giant sized games of Chess, Checkers and Connect Four. All ages welcome
This Sunday, Jan. 19: Broadway Pops: “Dancing and Romancing” @MauiArtsCulture
This Sunday, the Maui Pops Orchestra, along with Broadway greats Joan Hess and Kirby Ward, will pay homage to the 1930s in this year’s Broadway Pops Dancing and Romancing production. Classics from Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern will serve as this year’s rhythm and movement inspirations.  $15-$50. 3pm. half-price 18 & under (In […]
HUNGER GAMES CATCHING FIRE New Movie Review
The new Hunger Games won me over immediately, with an opening that not only sets the scene but addresses a problem I had with the previous film. We begin with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), survivor of the kill-or-be-killed “games,” hunting in the woods. She kills an animal with her bow and, for a moment, hallucinates that […]
MauiTime Summer Guide To Batting Cages and Trapeze Swinging and Paintball on Maui
We’ve long associated summertime with the outdoors. Maui may lack the distinct weather patterns that mark each season, and year-round schooling may have taken away much of the fun of the old summer vacation, but there’s still something about these coming months that demand we focus our attention to the fresh air and sunshine. As […]
42 New Movie Review
It’s hard to believe there’s never been a movie made about Jackie Robinson, outside of The Jackie Robinson Story from 1950. That movie at least had the great baseball Hall of Famer playing himself. But Robinson’s life, a remarkable journey of an African American who broke baseball’s color barrier and played for the Montreal Royals […]
Brave Pigeon Warriors and Drunk College Students and Radical Publications
NEEDING A LIFT Gary Medrow, 68, has periodically surfaced in News of the Weird since 1991 for his unique behavior of using a false identity to persuade Milwaukee-area strangers over the phone to lift other strangers off the ground–behavior for which he has occasionally been jailed and ordered to psychiatric care. After a recent period […]
Wreck It Ralph New Movie Review
Anyone who grew up on Maui during the 1980s remembers The Fun Factory, the glorious arcade that used to be nestled on the bottom floor of the Wharf Cinema Center. It housed dozens of video games, rows of skee ball and was an obsession of many of my classmates. One of my favorite games was […]