A series of films about the Vietnam War will be shown free beginning Tuesday as part of a University of Hawaii conference, “Thirty Years After: Literature and Film of the Vietnam War.” The films, under the heading “Re-Viewing Vietnam: Film Representation of the Vietnam War” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. through Nov. 10 at…
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UH-Manoa Offering 'Podcast' Class
Nowadays it is not unusual to take a class online, but imagine a “Podcast” class. It is only happening in a few places across the country with the University of Hawaii at Manoa being one of them. David Nickles’ Computer Science 101 class is Podcast so instead of books, his students bought Ipods. “What we…
Rash Of Bank Robberies Has Police Scrambling
Christmas is coming and Santa seems to be getting ready for some holiday shopping. I just love the image of a big bank robber riding off on a blue moped….maybe a police chase to follow… A rash of bank robberies in the past two days have police looking for several suspects. The last time Honolulu…
Underwear Runners in Kona
StarBulletin.com | News | /2005/10/14/ ASSOCIATED PRESS Competitors wearing little but their underwear smiled and cheered as they finished the ninth annual Underpants Run, yesterday, in Kailua-Kona. About 100 men, women and children ran in the mile-long event, which crossed paths with the start and finish areas of the considerably more serious Ironman competition, which…
Orangutan Love…
(I’m happy to say that it looks like my friend Rusti (below right) and his mail order bride Violet (below left) will soon be moving into spacious new quarters at the Honolulu zoo. When I asked Rusti how he felt about it this is what he had to say “The bachelor life wasn’t all it…
ma'ona: The 2005 `Ilima Awards, if it were up to me
(Every year in Hawaii the Honolulu Advertiser has the reader voted Ilima awards…as we looked at the winners the other day there were plenty of “oh my gods’ at what the masses choose…best coffee bar…Starbucks!…(no offense to the barrista friends there but c’mon…Coffee Talk is way better…) with that in mind here are the alternate…
Thanks for all the Garbage!!!!
(Even in the middle of the Pacific on the islands further from anywhere than anywhere, we get to deal with other people’s trash. thanks a lot boaters….cd) LINK HONOLULU – Teams led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service collected more than 125 tons of debris in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands last year,…
Robbers Steal Jewelry Case From Store During Daytime
( I love brazen robberies….this is great. I hope the store was insured and the robbers get away…a great crime. cd) A brazen daytime jewelry store robbery was caught on tape at Pearlridge and has police turning to the public for help in catching the thieves. Cathay Kai Jewelry at Pearlridge Shopping Center has been…
Man Allegedly Pays Transvestite Prostitute With Stolen Check
(What kind of a prostitute accepts checks? A Mahu Prostitute I guess…the whole mahu culture in Hawaii is pretty strange…a mahu is a Hawaiian Transvestite..below is a link to an article that explains the mahu identity… mahu link it doesn’t explain why this Mahu took a bad check though…next time shim will make the guy…
Big Island Inmates Use Bed Sheets In Prison Break… AGAIN!!!!
(Does you guys remember a few months ago when I was so surprised that inmates in Hawaii could escape with bedsheets…well, guess what? They did it AGAIN! Only in Hawaii….cd) Big Island police are searching for three inmates who escaped from the Hawaii Community Correctional Center Sunday night. Police got the call at about 11…