Honolulu meets Hollywood at the Hawaii International Film Festival - LA Times
Hollywood meets Honolulu as the Oahu film fest screens more than 180 movies this month.TheHawaii International Film Festival-- Nov. 12-22 -- will feature submissions from 41 countries, including 32 world premieres of films, documentaries and short subjects.The festival, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary, attracts more than 70,000 people each fall.Among the premieres is “Pali Road,” which was shot in Hawaii. It stars Michelle Chen, Henry Ian Cusick, Sung Kang and Jackson Rathbone and tells the story of a young doctor (Chen) who wakes up after a car accident to find herself living a life she doesn’t remember.The documentary “In Football We Trust,” filmed over four years, follows four ..>> view originalChinatown building that inspired name of 'Hawaii Five-0' villain is for...
Pardon Our Interruption... As you were browsinghttp://www.bizjournals.comsomething about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen: You're a power user moving through this website with super-human speed. You've disabled JavaScript in your web browser. A third-party browser plugin, such as Ghostery or NoScript, is preventing JavaScript from running. Additional information is available in thissupport article. To request an unblock, please fill out the form below and we will review it as soon as possible. You reached this page wh..>> view originalCarter checks on lab effort to ID airman lost in Asia
A U.S. military honor guard salutes after they accepted the human remains in a military ceremony that were recovered from a 1945 crash of a U.S. military transport plane in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. After the military ceremony attended by U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, the remains were to be flown to a Defense Department lab in Hawaii to attempt to positively identify them.VINCENT THIAN — AP PhotoHONOLULU— Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday toured a forensics laboratory that is trying to positively identify human remains which, just hours earlier in Malaysia, he had saluted as they were returned to U.S. custody.The remains are believed to be those of a crewmem..>> view originalSoldier accused of conspiring to kill wife pleads not guilty
HONOLULU— An Army medic in Honolulu pleaded not guilty Thursday after a federal grand jury indictment charged him with conspiring with his lover to kill his wife.Sgt. Michael Walker was arraigned on murder and other charges in the death of Catherine Walker, who was found stabbed multiple times in their home at Aliamanu Military Reservation last November.Co-defendant Ailsa Jackson was arrested in April in Indiana and extradited to Honolulu. The indictment accuses Jackson of using a key left outside the Walkers' back door to enter the home, grabbing a knife from the kitchen and killing Walker in a bedroom where she slept.Jackson also has pleaded not guilty, but court records filed after Walker..>> view originalPearl attack survivor, and his ship, honored
The Honolulu City Council honored Pearl Harbor survivor Ray Emory on Wednesday and admired a model of his ship, the USS Honolulu, that had been kept in relative obscurity for several years. “Most people — they go out on the Arizona Memorial, and basically all they hear is Arizona, Arizona, Arizona,” Emory, 94, told the assemblage at Honolulu Hale.Login for more... Print Subscribers ACTIVATIONCurrent print subscribers, activate your premium content account for unlimited online access & commenting ..>> view originalSurprising Time You Should Shop
Surprising Time You Should Shop Posted: Thursday, November 5, 2015 9:21 PM EST Updated: Thursday, November 5, 2015 9:21 PM EST Have you started your holiday shopping yet?If the answer is no, you are not alone.Every year thousands of shoppers scramble to stores on Black Friday looking for steep discounts, but according to marketing research company Adobe Digital Index that's not the best day to save the most cash.Emi Blaser is a shopper in Honolulu. She thinks the day after Christmas is probably the day to find deep discounts, and she might be right. But if you're looking for presents before the holiday, according to Adobe, th..>> view originalACLU files court motion over homeless people's belongings
After failing in September to halt city sweeps of homeless encampments, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii now wants a federal judge to prevent the immediate destruction of homeless individuals’ property that city workers pick up. The ACLU and the Honolulu law firm of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing wrote in a motion that the city is consistently violating its own policies by destroying homeless belongings instead of storing them, where they could be reclaimed by their owners.Login for more... Print Subscrib..>> view originalEthics meeting canceled over 'too broad' agenda
A scheduled closed-door meeting of the Honolulu Ethics Commission was canceled abruptly Tuesday — hours before it was to take place — after the state Office of Information Practices issued an informal opinion that called into question the validity of the meeting’s agenda. The commission’s agenda listed one item — an executive session, or closed-door discussion, “to consult with the Commission’s attorney on questions and issues pertaining to the commission’s powers, duties, privileges, immunities and liabilities related to personnel and management matters.”Login for more... ..>> view original6 Ways Local People Are Keeping Cool in Hawai'i
6 Ways Local People Are Keeping Cool in Hawai‘iThe brutal summer heat hasn’t been bad for everyone.By James CharismaPublished:2015.11.05 10:00 AM Photo: Thinkstock An unbelievably hot, humid, sticky and sweaty summer in Hawai‘i looks like it’s turning into a sweaty, sticky fall and winter, as weather experts predict the heat is here to stay for thenext few months. Yes, 2015 marked the hottest summer ever on Earth, and Hawai‘i certainly felt the effects: record-breaking temperatures cracking the 90s across O‘ahu, Maui and the Big Island, humidity soaring into the 80s, and no cooling tradewinds. But not everyone hates the high temperatures; f..>> view originalMountain View man, 31, charged with Halloween night manslaughter
Mountain View man, 31, charged with Halloween night manslaughter Posted: Thursday, November 5, 2015 4:16 PM EST Updated: Thursday, November 5, 2015 4:16 PM EST HILO, Hawaii - A man arrested in connection with a fatal Halloween assault has been charged in the victim’s death, according to Big Island police.At 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, after conferring with prosecutors, detectives charged 31-year-old Kallen Imade of Mountain View with manslaughter. His bail was set at $250,000.Imade is being held at the Hilo police cellblock until his initial court appearance scheduled for Thursday.At 11:30 p.m. Saturday, South Hilo Patrol offic..>> view original
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