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Hawaiian Music Series returns Thursday at a new location in Lahaina

Concerts for the free Hawaiian Music Series will return to Lahaina this year at a new location on the lawn of Waiola Church at 535 Wainee St. The first free, family-friendly concert of 2026 is set for 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday and will feature acclaimed Maui musician Joshua Kahula. Free parking ...

Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ is no “Oldboy”

Director Chan-wook Park (left) and Byung-hun Leek pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "No Other Choice" during the London film festival on Oct. 15. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP) South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s new film, “No Other Choice,” is ...

Anthony Pfluke to celebrate release of new album Jan. 31

A Nā Hōku Hanohano nominee for his album, “We Will Rise,” Anthony Pfluke has released a new CD. Dedicated to Maui, “Kuʻu Lei Lokelani” finds the gifted Maui artist recording a bunch of original contemporary Hawaiian songs joined by a stellar group of friends. Pfluke will ...

Johannes Gutenberg inspires musical that opens Jan. 30 in Kihei

Famous for inventing the first printing press in Germany around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg’s revolutionary accomplishment inspired Anthony King and Scott Brown centuries later to create “Gutenberg! The Musical!” which opens Jan. 30 at the ProArts Playhouse. “It’s very funny,” said ...

Blackwater Railroad Company brings Alaska sound to Maui

Blackwater Railroad Company’s lead singer Tyson T. Davis was at home in Seward, Alaska, recently where the outside temperature hovered around 17 degrees Fahrenheit. “It’s warmed up,” Davis said. “It’s been record setting cold for a while. It’s been zero degrees when a wind ...

Maui musician channels civil rights legacy in new protest song

When Maui musician Gail Swanson was growing up in Chicago, she would often accompany her mother on protest marches. “On the weekends she would take my sister and I to the marches when Martin Luther King Jr. was leading the civil rights movement,” Swanson recalled. “My mom really ...