Former Maui News reporter Jill Engledow has become one of Maui’s foremost historians. Documenting island life for more than four decades, she has authored several books on Maui’s history and written historical novels that vividly portray the lives of women who lived on the island in earlier ...

Before founding Zenshin Daiko with his wife, Valerie Jones, Anthony Jones remembers a family relative showing them a videotape of Kodo, the internationally acclaimed Japanese taiko drumming ensemble. “My son was 2 at the time, and she gave us a Kodo VHS tape, and that’s all he watched,” ...

Having recorded a cover of Carlos Santana’s song “Europa” on her album “Four Strings: The Fire Within,” multi-Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award winner Brittni Paiva heard the Latin rock legend was going to play Oahu in 2013 and made contact through her management. Santana invited her to ...

For the First Nations people of Canada’s remote archipelago of Haida Gwaii, playing basketball became a vital tool for preserving their culture in the face of government suppression. In his acclaimed documentary “Saints and Warriors,” Indigenous Haida filmmaker Nang K‘uulas Patrick ...

Among the films screening at the Wailuku Film Festival, Mikey Inouye’s “Mālama Mākua” traces the transformation of Oahu’s Mākua Valley from a place of deep cultural roots to a rallying point for grassroots activism. The documentary chronicles the ongoing struggle to restore U.S. ...

In the new documentary “SURFILMUSIC,” opening the inaugural Wailuku Film Festival on June 17, Oahu resident Jack Johnson was asked how he became so big. Johnson humbly responded, “I actually don’t know.” With more than 25 million albums sold worldwide, Johnson is known for iconic ...