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Queen Kaʻahumanu Center to host Easter Hop on Saturday

Queen Kaʻahumanu Center will host its Easter Hop from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, offering keiki activities, prizes and photos with the Easter Bunny. The free event will include a center-wide egg hop, where guests can collect Easter eggs filled with toys and surprises from participating stores ...

Grammy-winner Skip Martin offers advice for up-and-coming artists

Grammy-winning musician Skip Martin has a mantra for success: “Don’t drive past the bank.” Basically, keep it simple and relatable. A former member of Kool & The Gang and The Dazz Band with Rick James, Martin explained how some musicians make complicated music that “the people ...

Performance reaches for life beyond Earth

On a mission to contact other planets, former University of Hawaii astronomy professor Jeff Kuhn will introduce his vision of finding life beyond Earth using music at a special event Saturday at the ProArts Playhouse. Joining Kuhn for the “Songs for the Stars” show will be ...

Agatha Christie’s classic mystery ‘The Mousetrap’ opens in Wailuku

Opening at the historic Iao Theater on Friday, Maui OnStage’s production of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery “The Mousetrap” is going to be “really fun whether you know the ending or not,” said director Kristi Scott. Inspired by an actual criminal case, the legendary murder mystery unfolds in 1950s England. Newly married Mollie and Giles Ralston are preparing to welcome their first guests to Monkswell Manor when a sudden snowstorm traps everyone inside. As suspicions mount, it becomes clear a murderer is in their midst, and the guests must unravel the killer’s identity ...

Record-holding windsurfer Sarah Hauser stars in new film

In January 2023, windsurfer Sarah Hauser landed in the Guinness World Records for riding a 40-foot wave at Jaws. She previously held the record for the largest wave ever windsurfed by a woman — 36 feet — at the same location in 2019. “It was always a dream of mine to be in big ...

Hawaiian legends Henry Kapono, Keola Beamer to share stage at MACC

The 10th anniversary season of the Artist 2 Artist showcase will open Friday at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center with legendary slack key master Keola Beamer and Kumu Hula Moanalani Beamer hosted by Henry Kapono for a show touching on their decades of history as artistic pioneers. “We just ...