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Honolulu Weekly Honolulu Weekly Wednesday, January 18 - 24, 2006 Extreme Makeover A community fights to alter the Kakaako development plan Q&A: John Hope Franklin Amplified returns Dial M for Pizza Read it today! Pick up your FREE copy of the Weekly today and read this week's Diary, stories and reviews. Recent Cover Stories Spring Arts PERFORMING ARTS High performance Its a broad category, performing arts. Its highbrow classical music and lowbrow pub gigs, small dance troupes and large touring companies,... [ Read me ] 01-11-2006 The New Face of Hawaiian Music On stage is a calm, queenly young woman, wrapped in a black pareo. She stands on her bare feet, and in a plaintive, soulful voice,... [ Read me ] 01-04-2006 Snapshots The day after Thanksgiving I fly with four colleagues from Punahou School to the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE) in Hamilton, New Zealand.... [ Read me ] 12-28-2005 Wipe Out Pono Warner and Trevor Moore were sitting in an office at Clark Foam Hawaii talking with big-wave gun shaper Owl Chapman when the phone rang... [ Read me ] 12-21-2005 Trashed Nine thousand, one hundred and nineteen. Thats the number of communities across the country that have curbside recycling programs, according to a 2005 survey by... [ Read me ] 12-14-2005 A shipload of trouble Last month, before an audience at the Keaau Community Center on the Big Island, cruise ship critic Ross Klein dropped a bombshell: The NorthWest CruiseShip... [ Read me ] 12-07-2005 Waimea Indivisible: Who will save the valley? Ua mau ke ea o ka Aina i ka pono On Dec. 7, the City Council will convene to make a very difficult decision with... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 The Future of Kamilo Nui Photographs by Chris McDonough Kamilo Nui is not easy to find. Even if you have located it on a map, youll wind your way through... [ Read me ] 11-23-2005 Winter Books Issue - 2005 The season is upon us: the season for racking up credit card debt, the season for those weird elf-ridden Ala Moana commercials, the season for... [ Read me ] 11-16-2005 Urban scrawl In March, the Contemporary Museum flew in street art star Shepard Fairey on a reconnaissance mission to scope out Honolulu in preparation for his residency... [ Read me ] 11-09-2005 The Biodiesel State For the first time in Pacific Biodiesels 10-year existence, local demand for biodiesel exceeds the companys supply. Its not because everyone suddenly has a green... [ Read me ] 11-02-2005 Correctional behavior More than two years after the American Civil Liberties Union called public attention to abusive conditions at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility in Kailua, the... [ Read me ] 10-26-2005 Film city These days, its hard to find a time when theres not a film festival playing in town. Every major city has them, so why not... [ Read me ] 10-19-2005 Planet Enos Its standing-room-only at the Hawaiian Hut, where Kealohas free-form poetry slam takes place once a month. Solomon Enos sits in front of the stage focused... [ Read me ] 10-12-2005 Mercury rising? In August, volunteers with Environmental Action, a national eco-advocacy group, spent five days on Maui, Oahu and Hawaii Island pounding the pavement to tell residents... [ Read me ] 10-05-2005 Calendar Gig List Spin Zone Hot Picks 01-18-2006 Deceiving is believing Acting is the art of lying so well that the lie becomes truth. Sometimes, better than truth. We collaborate in that deception, applauding loudly the... Aliens vs. adolescence How does a group of angry, unruly high school kids settle their differences and become best of friends? Why, by fighting an alien invasion, of... Viva viola How do you keep your violin from getting stolen? Put it in a viola case. Why dont violists play hide and seek? Because no one... Circus, circus Perhaps when a circus is called a cirque (the prettier French word), it means its the kind thats not about freaks of nature and dumb... Get this week's Hot Picks Entertainment Guide to New Years Eve 2006 Like watch? CreationA Polynesian Journey Play tourist. Travel on an adventure through the captivating rhythms, beginning in Polynesia with the creation of man, through warfare,... [ Read me ] 12-21-2005 Fast, funny, fluffy farce The new show at Manoa Valley Theatre, Flaming Idiots , is a complete and utter farce with no redeeming social valuewhich is, of course, why... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 The art of submission No holds barred (save for eye-gouging and biting), no weight divisions and no time limits. Thats how mixed martial arts (MMA) tournaments first began in... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 A cultural discourse of clay As with so many aspects of material culture, we can only speculate about the origin of ceramic vessels: Who first saw the potential in a... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 Mad as hell You know him, even if you dont know you know him. Lewis Black, sometime guest commentator on Comedy Centrals Daily Show , has become one... [ Read me ] 11-23-2005 Features Pacific impressionist Since receiving her masters degree in anthropology from the University of Hawaii in 1992, tattooist and anthropologist Tricia Allen has been documenting tattooing in Polynesia,... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 The Honolulu Advertiser questions the credibility of the UH-Manoa vote on UARC. Its time to question the papers relationship to UH and Uncle Sam. In its mission statement, The Honolulu Advertiser promotes itself as a voice for all of the community. Truth be told, oftentimes it can be anything... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 Survival of the fittest Kalihi-native Simeon Den s long resume includes dance, art, shiatsu, feng shui and 35 years as a practitioner and teacher of yoga, meditation and qi... [ Read me ] 11-23-2005 Geography matters On Easter weekend in 2004, Typhoon Sudal ripped through Yap, packing 132 mph winds and producing 35-foot waves, leaving 80 percent of people without drinking... [ Read me ] 11/16/2005 Out of the box Described by the Boston Globe as a drunken barn dance as it might be represented in a Disney cartoon, the $284 million Stata building opened... [ Read me ] 11-09-2005 11-30-2005 More problems for firm managing Hawaii educator funds A California financial services company under investigation for diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement funds it was supposed to invest on behalf of... A breath of fresh Haire Honolulu Weekly welcomes Editor Chris Haire on board this week. Chris comes to us from the Atlantic Coast, where he most recently served as a... Pretty vacant (and we dont care) What do the numbers 748, 732, 747 and 756 represent? If youre looking at data from the Housing and Community Development Corporation (HCDCH), the numbers... Go to Honolulu Diary Restaurant Reviews Food News Restaurant Reviews Pizza pie amore ###>BYLINE For a rare dining experience, cross the Pali and eat at Kailuas new pizzeria, Mamas Island Pizza. We say rare, because in a town... [ Read Reviews ] 01-18-2006 Pizza pie amore ###>BYLINE For a rare dining experience, cross the Pali and eat at Kailuas new pizzeria, Mamas Island Pizza. We say rare, because in a town... [ Read me ] 01-18-2006 Sonoma or bust If you can stand the drab, rainy weather, January and February are the best times to visit California wine country. The region still has that... [ Read me ] 12-28-2005 This is a tasty burger! Perhaps it shouldnt be a surprise that Honolulu is home to an unusually deep list of great burgers. We have a year-round outdoor culture, which... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 Green with energy Fortunately, the lame, limp lettuce that used to be de rigueur even in better restaurants has gone the way of legwarmers and shellacked hairdos. Today... [ Read me ] 11-23-2006 Tray chic By the time the drink cart came through our flight, we were already into our homemade sandwiches. Well, arent you smart! marveled the stewardess in... [ Read me ] 11-16-2005 Film Reviews Movie Clock Film Blurbs Film Reviews And the band played on: AIDS and denial Long before there was a World AIDS Day (see page 3), and while the mainstream media were largely in denial about the epidemic, indie filmmakers... [ Read Reviews ] 11-30-2005 Pride & Prejudice After such contemporary incarnations as Bridget Joness Diary and Bride & Prejudice , television director Joe Wright makes an impressive debut with this generations proper... [ Read Reviews ] 11-30-2005 The Ice Harvest Its axiomatic that when you have to try hard to be hip, you aint never gonna be. Case in point is the brutal and awkward... [ Read Reviews ] 11-30-2005 And the band played on: AIDS and denial Long before there was a World AIDS Day (see page 3), and while the mainstream media were largely in denial... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 Pride & Prejudice After such contemporary incarnations as Bridget Joness Diary and Bride & Prejudice , television director Joe Wright makes an impressive... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 The Ice Harvest Its axiomatic that when you have to try hard to be hip, you aint never gonna be. Case in point... [ Read me ] 11-30-2005 The circle and the line If youve had your fill of a years worth of movies about celebrities rising to the top, indulging in booze... [ Read me ] 11-23-2005 The goblet - of puberty Event movies are review-proof in the sense that fans will brave the box-office crowds no matter what theyve heard, good... [ Read me ] 11-23-2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang The patchwork detective thriller/dark comedy/wicked satire Kiss Kiss Bang Bang would be unthinkable without the protean skills of a terrifically... [ Read me ] 11/16/2005 Rent Do you sometimes feel youre a step outside of the moments coolest trend? If youve never been to New York,... [ Read me ] 11/16/2005 Garon Stupide A word of caution: Viewers struggling with coming-of-age-fatigue, those who puked during Breaking the Waves and also those who object... [ Read me ] 11/16/2005 Good Night, and Good Luck Shot in arresting black-and-white and rich with seamlessly interwoven archival footage, George Clooneys Good Night, and Good Luck is a... [ Read me ] 11-09-2005 It's all in Honolulu Weekly, of course Calendar Gig List (bands) Spin Zone (DJs 'n dancing) Hot Picks Film Reviews Movie Clock Film Blurbs Restaurant Reviews Food News Honolulu Diary Classifieds Archives How Green is the Weekly ? 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