The Maui OnStage Education and Youth Program will soon stage an unusual production that features a musical without songs. “Bringing Down the House” by Todd Wallinger is about a bunch of students trying to mount a musical that keeps getting interrupted. “It’s a little different,” ...
Back in the early 1980s you could find Grammy-winning guitarist Ken Emerson playing at Lahaina’s Pioneer Inn with piano legend David Paquette. A recording of their time there, “From NOLA to Lahaina,” was released a couple of years ago. Instrumental tracks included “Front Street ...
Seattle’s longest running reggae band, Dub Lounge International, headed by vocalist Naphtali Rashid, will perform two shows on Maui in Wailea and Hana. They play in Hana Thursday, Sept. 18, in a benefit for the Hana School student government, and at Mulligans on the Blue on Saturday with ...
In “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” director Michael Chaves’ alleged concluding chapter to “The Conjuring” franchise (yeah, sure), the tireless demon hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, both excellent) take on a vile spirit with a strange connection ...
Performing with the Jerry Garcia Band for 18 years, keyboardist Melvin Seals kept the iconic musician’s legacy alive when the Grateful Dead’s guitarist died in 1995 by fronting the JGB band. Seals and JGB were recently part of the Dead’s 60th anniversary in San Francisco. “I had ...
Maui’s adult hula competition, “Kū Mai Ka Hula,” (Hula Appears) will return to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Castle Theater on Friday and Saturday. The 18th annual event will feature male and female dancers performing kahiko (traditional) and ‘auana (modern) hula stylings, ...
