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Losing ticket
August 16, 2012 As opposed to real political candidates, the ones in “The Campaign” know that they’re joke. more »» 
Masketeers in the redwoods
August 9, 2012 Shakespeare himself wasn’t part of our Shakespeare Santa Cruz experience this summer but it didn’t matter. The magic was still there. more »»
Santa Cruisin’
August 2, 2012 “Turn this crazy bird around, I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight …” Joni Mitchell, whose voice had been there singing “California coming home” at an earlier time in my life, was back on... more »»
The darkest night
July 26, 2012 Early last Thursday evening, as Kathy Collins and I chuckled about the impending opening of the new Batman film, a 24-year-old man in Colorado was getting dressed to go to the movi. more »»
Saturday Night Live, Kahului-style
July 19, 2012 Live, from beautiful downtown Dairy Road, the Akaku Center parking lot was rockin’ Saturday nigh. more »»
Doing the math
July 12, 2012 Game-changing filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, 49, has observed that film directing is a young man’s game. The guys who directed the two movies I saw last weekend do the math differently. more »»
Sunset and Moonrise
July 5, 2012 Clearing out my desk in May when I semi-retired from The Maui News yielded all sorts of treasures. more »»
Slack key harmony
June 28, 2012 It’s all about the tuning, the musicians kept explaining to the crowd at the 21st annual Ki Ho‘alu Guitar Festival Sunday at the MACC. Turns out, it was about more than that. more »» 
Grand Banks
June 21, 2012 “I got into this business to entertain people,” says film artist Elizabeth Banks. “I don’t do anything for myself. more »»
Stardust memories of the Maui Film Festival at Wailea
June 14, 2012 As I recall, the first award presented at the Maui Film Festival at Wailea was invisible. more »»
From films to burgers
June 7, 2012 Interconnectedness and impermanence are the two themes providing the “script” for “Samsara,” a wordless documentary of cosmic proportions that screens at the Maui Film Festival’s Celestial Cinema at... more »»
Apocalypse du jour
May 31, 2012 A couple of weeks ago, I wrote in this space about getting unstuck in time and winding up back in the ’60s. Well, what do you know? It’s happened again. It wasn’t my fault this time. more »»
Welcome to 9-12
May 24, 2012 After more than a decade living in an insecure mindset labeled “9-11,” we seem to have finally awakened to the new morning of 9-12. more »»
Out of Time
May 17, 2012 Among all the wise, kind words coming my way after announcing my retirement a couple of weeks ago, there were a bunch from a fellow you may have heard of, Bob Dylan. more »» 
Maui Film Fest takes Banks shot
May 10, 2012 So we’re off … to the big skies of Montana for a couple of weeks, but not before getting the buzz rolling for this year’s Maui Film Festival, returning to Wailea and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center... more »»
Exit stage left
May 3, 2012 A body of work. That’s what you get — if you’re lucky — as you keep wondering when you’re finally going to settle into a career. I’m lucky. more »»
The road to mana
April 26, 2012 Over the years, the East Maui Taro Festival has become an annual mile marker of my island journey. My collection of taro fest T-shirts goes back to the early-’90s. more »»
Nick, nick, nick
April 19, 2012 At the end of “The Three Stooges” movie, brother-directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly appear on-screen. more »»
The best ever
April 12, 2012 Hawaiian cultural adviser Clifford Nae‘ole’s belief in paying it forward set a positive tone for The Ritz-Carlton, Kapulua’s Celebration of the Arts last weekend. more »»
Signs of hope
April 5, 2012 As “The Hunger Games” kept packing theaters and setting box-office records with its wonderfully unique blend of action, emotion, disturbing social implications and wry social satire, I headed in the... more »» |
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