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Wailuku Film Festival seeks submissions for screening in June

With the Maui Film Festival having closed after 25 years, residents and visitors still have the Hawaii International Festival in late 2026 to look forward to, and the new Wailuku Film Festival will launch in June with screenings of new works at the Historic Iao Theater, the Naylor and the ...

World Whale Film Festival returns to Iao Theater

In partnership with the Maui County Film Office and Wailuku Film Festival, the Pacific Whale Foundation’s ninth annual World Whale Film Festival will return to the Historic Iao Theater on Feb. 11. From its inception, the festival was designed to help elevate ocean conservation storytelling ...

Barry Wurst: Viewer beware of ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’

Nia DaCosta’s “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” is a direct sequel to last year’s “28 Years Later” and to the original “28 Days Later” (2003), both of which originated with filmmaker Danny Boyle. The connective thread this time around is original writer Alex Garland, whose ...

Grammy-winning Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea have expanded boundaries

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea is definitely not your traditional mariachi band. Led by Shea, who studied trumpet with Latin jazz great Arturo Sandoval, and composed entirely of women, Mariachi Divas is a multiethnic group that has expanded mariachi’s ...

Classic rockers Foghat to ignite MACC on Feb. 5

Fifty-plus years after helping form the British band Foghat, drummer Roger Earl is still rocking at the age of 79. Famous for hits like “Slow Ride” and “Fool for the City,” Earl and Foghat will perform Feb. 5 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center as part of their Twang & Bang ...