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Kokua
Culture, Oʻahu

Jack Johnson Sandwich: A report from Kokua Festival 2008

Hawaii singer-songwriter-musician Jack Johnson’s Kokua Festival is happening today and Sunday in Waikiki. Our friend, writer and Jack fan Jessica Ferracane, will be at tonight’s sold-out show. She’s promised us a post-concert report and photos. Until then, we’re happy to share her view from the ground of Friday’s pre-Kokua Festival press conference. Pinch me. I’m […]

Aloha Music Camp 2
Culture, Hawai‘i Island, Molokaʻi

Hawaiian music camp victim of Molokai Ranch closure

Molokai Ranch closed earlier this month, forcibly relocating Aloha Music Camp. For the last five years, the Hawaiian music, dance and culture camp convened each summer at Molokai Ranch’s isolated Kaupoa Beach Village. This year’s camp—scheduled for June 22-28—will move to the Big Island’s considerably less remote Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort. The camp suffered an

Harry Potter Order Phoenix
Culture

No “aloha” in “Harry Potter” says J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been in court this week trying to keep a fan from publishing The Harry Potter Lexicon, on which he’d spent the last nine years working. In addition to charging the fan, Steven Vander Ark, with plagiarism, Rowling claimed his encyclopedia of Potter wizardry contained errors. For instance, Vander Ark

Jack Johnson Eddie Vedder
Culture, Oʻahu

Jack Johnson’s Kokua Festival: Past and present

You ask. We answer. A couple of readers wrote, lamenting that they couldn’t attend Jack Johnson’s Kokua Festival shows in Waikiki this weekend. This is the fifth-annual go-round of Johnson’s music festival, happening this Saturday and Sunday at the Waikiki Shell. Johnson, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds  headline, with Mason Jennings and Hawaii acts Paula

sarah
Culture, Oʻahu

Hawaii stars in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”

Hawaii is no stranger to movie screens. This Friday (4/18), Hawaii has another starring location role, this time in a new film called Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Most of the movie’s scenes were filmed on Oahu’s North Shore, including places such as Turtle Bay Resort. Actor Jason Segel (who plays Peter Bretter, the film’s main character)

Michael Emerson Assoc
Culture, Oʻahu

Things we love about Hawaii: Michael Emerson of “Lost”

We ran into Michael Emerson, who plays Benjamin Linus on ABC’s hit TV series “Lost,” listening to jazz in Honolulu’s Chinatown district the other night. Nice guy—which makes you realize what an incredible actor he is. When he plays Linus—the series’ complicated is-he-or-isn’t-he-a-villain—he somehow manages to be both seriously sinister and as equable as a

Winona Beamer 2
Culture, Maui, Oʻahu

Entertainer and cultural leader Winona Beamer dies

Hawaii has lost not just a legendary entertainer, but a respected cultural figure. A well-known Hawaiian music family has lost its much-loved matriarch. Winona Beamer passed away in her sleep this morning at her home on Maui, after a long illness. She was 84. Her sons are musicians Keola and Kapono Beamer—as a duo, best

Brudah Iz
Culture

“American Idol” does Iz’s “Over the Rainbow”

If you were one of millions of television viewers watching American Idol last night, you know that contestant Jason Castro sang beloved Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s arrangement of “Over the Rainbow.” The contestants were supposed to sing songs that inspired them. The dreadlocked, typically mellow Castro called the song “really magical. He [Iz] really captured

raiatea
Culture, Molokaʻi

Raiatea Helm brings Hawaiian music to West Coast

Hawaiian music’s brightest rising star—and two-time Grammy nominee—Raiatea Helm leaves the Islands Thursday for a four-concert West Coast tour. “This is the first time I’ve toured just as myself,” she says. “The venues are selling well. I’m always interested in meeting the audiences. They have a greater appreciation of Hawaiian music than people in Hawaii.”

Miss Aloha Hula
Culture, Hawai‘i Island

Miss Aloha Hula crowned at Merrie Monarch Festival

Congratulations to Kalimakuhilani Akemi Kalamanamana Suganuma! Kalima to her friends, we’re guessing. Suganuma won the 2008 Miss Aloha Hula title at yesterday’s opening evening of Merrie Monarch Festival competition on the Big Island. In a tiebreaker. Two dances were required of competitors last night—a hula auana, or modern dance; and a hula kahiko, or traditional

Gabby album
Culture

Hawaiian music Sunday afternoons

There are few things more satisfying here than a Sunday afternoon—perhaps one on a favorite beach, watching the surf, catching up with thoughts. What’s the perfect soundtrack? Each Sunday, Hawaii Public Radio station KIPO-FM 89.3 provides three hours of the best in Hawaiian music. It’s “Kanikapila Sunday.” Though we’re sure you’d much rather be on

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Culture, Hawai‘i Island

Watch Merrie Monarch Festival Online

The 45th annual Merrie Monarch Festival begins tonight.  This is the World Series, the SuperBowl of hula competitions, bringing the best hula dancers from around the world to Edith Kanakaole Stadium in Hilo, Hawaii. If you can’t get to Hilo, KITV.com will provide live streaming video. (Of course, if you are near a TV set

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