Gatorade Girl
Lahainaluna junior Maiki Viela—who helped lead the Lady Lunas in a 17-0 season—is drinking up accolade after being named Hawaii’s Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of the Year, as reported by The Maui...
View ArticleMaui Vice Bust a Dozen Hookers, Patrons
I was turning to A4 in today’s The Maui News—continuing the update on the East Maui stream issue (“members reached a historic compromise (last) night”)—when, BAM! The hed “Ten men, two women busted...
View ArticleKula Kid #1: “My Second Date with Linda Lingle”
THE KULA KID – “MAYOR FOR A DAY” (13.50;1.0) In the fourth grade, I caught a cold. Forced to miss a day of school, I stayed up late the next night, hurriedly scrawling my make-up assignments—one of...
View ArticleDuke Aiona Runs Against Himself
The problem. Also: the solution. One of the biggest, most depressing political con jobs in recent memory was the one pulled by George W. Bush in 2000. Somehow, the Ivy League-educated son a former Vice...
View ArticleWill the Hawaii Legislature Rob Daily Newspapers of Their Precious Legal...
Another batch of legal notices coming through! Ah, legal notices – those wordy blocks of text sent out by local government agencies and courts that fill a daily newspaper’s classifieds section and...
View ArticleMedia Watch: The Maui News Runs Bogus Story On Apple’s Value A Day After CJR...
Most valuable company of “all time?” I think it’s time for an introduction: Maui News, meet the Internet. Because of the curious late afternoon deadline schedule for the island’s only daily...
View ArticleWake & Bake
Today’s Sunday edition of The Maui News—best enjoyed in the early hours with a cup-o-brew and…—reports that “State Senator J. Kalani English will probably grab a few head lines when he introduces two...
View ArticleLet’s Do the Time Warp Again: The Maui News Gets Indexed 1951-1973
Thursday (September 16), 7-9pm, J. Walter Cameron Center Auditorium, Wailuku, Free Plop me in the far corner of UH Maui College’s library with just the zip of the microfilm reels and a handful of...
View ArticlePaula Fuga and Mike Love put on another stellar set of shows at Stella Blues’...
(Left to Right: Mike Love, Sam Ites) They don’t call it Stella for nothin’. This South side restaurant is nothing short of stellar — of note, their lineup is top-notch; and September 17 and 18 with...
View ArticleThis Sunday, June 22: 23rd Annual Ki Ho’alu Slack Key Guitar Festival
This Sunday, the Maui Arts and Cultural Center and The Maui News are presenting the 23rd annual Ki Ho’alu Slack Key Guitar Festival. Featured performers will include Danny Carvalho, Hapa (Barry...
View ArticleMaui News publishes wacky Las Vegas shooting letter, wackier note to readers
One of the best entertainment sources in The Maui News on a daily basis isn’t the comics, it’s the Letters to the Editor. In other newspapers, that space is usually filled with fairly earnest...
View ArticleTHIS JUST IN: @TheMauiNewsHI reports bogus 1956 UFO sighting
Hey, I know The Maui News buries all their stories behind a paywall, but you might want to dig up 75 cents and a get a copy of today’s (Feb. 10, 2015) issue. The top story–I kid you not–is about how...
View ArticleNo More Parade Magazine For Maui News Readers
For Maui News readers who can’t wait for Sundays so they can read Parade Magazine, which has been included as an insert in the paper (and hundreds of others around the county) for many years, this...
View ArticleHow Do We Save Maui Memorial Medical Center?
It was nearly two hours into the hearing on the future of Maui’s largest and most important hospital before Dr. Peter Galpin was able to roll his wheelchair up to the lectern. Galpin spoke for a...
View ArticleThe Maui News gives platform to disgraced sexual harasser
The Maui News made a questionable choice in their Aug. 19 Sunday Edition article “Not ready for prime time,” a review of local political observers’ views on the 2018 Maui County Council election...
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