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Create the future at the 12th annual MAUI FILM FESTIVAL
June 16, 2011 Unlike movies promising mindless escape, the Maui Film Festival has always been about mind expansion. more »»
MAUI FILM FESTIVAL: THE FILMS
June 16, 2011 Synopses edited from material provided by the Maui Film Festival. For more information, visit www.mauifilmfestival.com. more »»
Best of all possible worlds
June 9, 2011 My litmus test for entertainment is whether I can remember it the next day. more »»
Stars at being human
June 2, 2011 One of the great parts of my job is I get to meet such interesting people. more »»
Pirates’ plunder
May 26, 2011 What goes around comes around, as we all know, so it stands to reason that “Pirates of the Caribbean,” which started its life as a ride at Disneyland, should feel so much like a ride at Disneyland —... more »»
Of men and maids
May 19, 2011 Is the circus in town? Are there clown auditions going on? How else to explain the bad performance of men in the news this week? It all started with the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. more »»
Thor and more
May 12, 2011 Ah, for simpler times when gods were gods and that was enough. They didn’t have to worry about —much less compete with —mere superheroes. more »»
Wide world of television
May 5, 2011 As the world stopped to watch the ornate spectacle of a royal wedding in England last week, Hawaii celebrated its own traditions of royalty in a ceremony less grand but no less moving. more »»
Human nature
April 28, 2011 At The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua’s 19th annual Celebration of the Arts over Easter weekend, I found myself thinking about words and their meanings. It’s not as simple as it sounds. more »»
Common ground, Hawaiian voice
April 21, 2011 In the beginning, 18 years ago, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua’s Celebration of the Arts came to life on Easter weekend. more »»
Virtualocity
April 14, 2011 If a fairy tale married a CIA agent, their daughter would look exactly like “Hanna.” No, really. more »»
Accentuating the positive
April 7, 2011 Chalk it up to serendipity that I was driving down the mountain a little after 2 last Sunday afternoo. more »»
Making the Scene
March 24, 2011 Maui Scene Editor Rick Chatenever is on vacation. His column will resume March 31. more »»
Art. Or not.
March 17, 2011 Every semester, I take the class I teach at UH-Maui College over to Schaefer Gallery at the MACC. The class is English 100, Introduction to Expository Writing. more »»
KIPM: All together now
March 10, 2011 More than a decade in the making, Hawaii Public Radio will flip the switch during the first week of April to put new station KIPM on the air at 89.7 FM on the Maui radio dial. more »»
Croc rock under the palms
March 3, 2011 You’d think a week would be enough time for Elton John’s songs to go away. more »»
Oscar time again
February 24, 2011 This is the first year I’m glad I’m not a voting member of the Motion Picture Academy. more »»
Just go with it? I’m trying
February 17, 2011 It was Hollywood in the tropics last spring when not one but two movie comedies were filming simultaneously on location around Maui. That was coincidental enough. more »»
Zooper Bowl XLV
February 10, 2011 Listening to William S. Merwin read poems last Saturday morning at the MACC put me in a metaphorical frame of mind. more »» |
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