What better Christmastime tale of charity and repentance than Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol? And where better to stage a classically interpreted rendition of this story than at the historic Iao Theater? Maui OnStage’s 2010 holiday play is designed and dressed so beautifully, the costumes and set pieces (thanks to Lynda Timm and Caro Walker, respectively) seem wrought … [Read more...] about A Christmas Carol
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Maui Hula Happenings
OK, I’ll admit it: I haven’t entirely gotten through the Schaefer International Gallery’s newest show, Ho‘oulu: The Inspiration of Hula. There are four fine-art portraits, three vignettes of hula-related artifacts from families with “uninterrupted genealogical lines of hula,” a looped video of archival interviews and 70 black and white portrait-photographs of loea hula (hula … [Read more...] about Maui Hula Happenings
Bailey House Benefit
Ah, the Bailey House Museum. Forgive me if the following sounds weird (because—disclaimer—it is), but I love that place so much, there’s a sick, Antiques Roadshow-loving side of me that just wants to make dust angels on the floor for days on end, in an effort to soak up a bit more of their historical goodness. This Saturday I can get my fix without looking like a psycho, at the … [Read more...] about Bailey House Benefit
Get A Job The Maui Premeire
The time is right for Hawaii to unleash a project of this nature. We have the talent in front of the camera, the experience behind it,” says writer-director Brian Kohne. A Baldwin High School alumnus, Kohne says he spent 27 years abroad learning how to make movies so he could return home to tell Hawaii stories and focus on the what and why. It worked—Kohne, with his creative … [Read more...] about Get A Job The Maui Premeire
Dinner and a Movie with PacificO and David Paul
You’ll have two chances to eat, drink and watch a flick this Saturday on the West side. First up, director Robert Bates will be on hand for this special outdoor screening of his movie Ingredients at Pacific‘o, along with what Chef James McDonald decribes as, “some new flavors not to be found elsewhere.” Independently produced, Ingredients illustrates how the industrialized food … [Read more...] about Dinner and a Movie with PacificO and David Paul