SPOILER ALERT: “LOST” is filming today near Hawaii Pacific University in downtown Honolulu today. Thanks to an email alert widely circulated among HPU staff and students, and a post from an HPU account on Twitter, fans had ample notice to head over to check out the filming.
BECOME A FREE HAWAI`I FAN ON FACEBOOK FROM YOUR CELL PHONEI started getting emails Wednesday morning following eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar’s announcement of the planned launch of “a Honolulu-based local news service that will produce original, in-depth reporting and analysis of local issues in Hawaii.”
Plans which, they way, will create a profitable and sustainable enterprise.
All I could think of was, [...]
Here’s another small moment in Hawaii culinary history, found among the papers and photographs belonging to my father, John Lind. It was taken at a meeting of the Geneva Club in Honolulu, probably in the immediate post-WWII years prior to 1950.
On [...]
The state and University of Hawaii have blown opportunities to reach a contract settlement with the faculty union several times since preliminary talks started nearly two years ago, according to the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, the faculty union.
In one glaring example, the union and the UH Board of Regents [...]
Braiding Sennit by Herb Kawainui Kane. For more images from Hawaii's foremost artist and historian, click here.
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(Media release) — Hawaii County Council Vice Chair Emily I. Naeole-Beason announced this week the Council District 5 office will be moving into the Pahoa Elections Division office in the Pahoa Marketplace in Pahoa on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009.
The Pahoa office of the Elections Division [...]
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(Media release) — The Office of the Mayor, Hawai‘i County Council, Office of the County Clerk and six County departments are moving into the newly renovated Hawai‘i County Building at 25 Aupuni Street this week.
The County building has been out of [...]
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Attorney Paul M. Sullivan has updated his monograph “Killing Aloha”, which is a point-by-point rebuttal to the Akaka bill. The monograph includes several wonderful cartoons by Daryl Cagle related to Rice v. Cayetano and to Hawaii’s racial entitlement programs. Some of Mr. Sullivan’s comments draw upon important historical and legal [...]
Things we were reviewing today:
Check out the just-launched Hawaii Civil Procedure blog. It's a welcome addition to the blogroll for Hawaii civil practitioners. My colleague Mark Murakami has set up a resource page for all things about the McDonald v. City of Chicago case. That's the appeal currently being [...]
Best online pictures yet of the St. Regis Princeville:Friday November 27 2009 be prepared to give your laugh muscles a complete workout when Gabriel Iglesias brings his comical tales & charismatic facial contortions & comical voices to the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall.
Gabriel Iglesias, AKA Fluffy or Pichau, is one of the hottest comedians around. Though often billed [...]
In 2002, my father was asked for his recollections of the founding of the Molokai to Oahu canoe race on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
It became an opportunity for him to record some memories of that period in the history of Hawaii’s competitive surfing and canoeing.
I’ve found [...]
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(Media release) — Volcano Art Center’s Annual “Festive Wreath Making” workshop is at 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 in Volcano Village. Enjoy creating a full size festive wreath designed to last beyond a season using native and non-native foliage gathered by instructor Jelena Clay. [...]
(Media release) — The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has joined the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT). As an Observer, China will participate in planning the development of what will be the world’s most advanced and capable astronomical observatory.
“The TMT is delighted to [...]
