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On The Scene
 Lehia Apana |
Third Eye Blind concertFri, March 5, 2010 @ 7:56PM Memories of yesteryear flooded back as alternative rockers Third Eye Blind took the stage recently. Despite the fact that the group hasn’t produced a monster hit in more than a decade, fans showed up in force for the rare acoustic concert at the Royal Lahaina Resort. The setting alone — intimate oceanfront venue under the stars — upped the potential for a memorable night. Add likable frontman Stephan Jenkins and a set of radio-worthy songs, and the night was elevated from memorable to unforgettable. These days 3EB commands iPod space in a playlist titled “Old School Hits.” Classics like “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s it Going to Be” that cemented the band’s legacy are still as catchy as ever. The band churned out these favorites, prompting the crowd to its feet and even getting some sing-alongs going. Songs from its latest “Ursa Major” album didn’t quite have the same effec.
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Making the Scene
 Rick Chatenever |
Mission accomplishedWed, March 17, 2010 @ 11:00PM Even at the peaks of his career, first in the late ’60s, then in 1980, Peter Graves’ star never burned as bright as Tom Cruise’s. It would be like comparing a match to a Roman candle. When it came to stardom, Graves couldn’t even match his older brother, James Arness, on the seminal TV Western, “Gunsmoke.” But Graves, who died at age 83 Sunday of a heart attack, played a more crucial role than either of the other actors in shaping the world we live in today. When he starred as Jim Phelps in 143 episodes of “Mission Impossible” in the ’60s and ’70s, it was a black-and-white TV series about a team of secret agents. Once a week they saved the world by stabilizing shaking governments or destabilizing tyrannical ones in ficticious little kingdoms and dictatorships all over the world. Tom Cruise was still in grade school.
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The Bald-Headed Truth
 Robert Collias |
Maui High’s Fernandez striving by leaps and boundsMon, March 22, 2010 @ 3:30AM Here is the start of a great story by Matthew Carroll. Read it, it is worth your time, take my word for it: WAILUKU --- Andrew Fernandez can't wait for Monday and Wednesday to arrive every week. For two hours each afternoon, Fernandez attends Maui High School track and field practice, centering his efforts solely on improving his jumping abilities. When that clock expires, though, he has to wait until the following week to work at it again. Living in a group home, or a structured living environment, Fernandez is allotted only those four hours to join his teammates for practice, yet it hasn't hindered him in the least. In fact, he's used it as motivation. The 17-year-old senior, who stands 6-foot-3 and won Saturday's high jump by eight inches, is 6-for-6 thus far this spring, capturing titles in the long, triple and high jumps in two full-field meets, including Saturday's Yamamoto Invitational at War Memorial Stadium. 'They have the advantage,' he said of his opponents.
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Restating the Obvious
 Harry Eagar |
Book Review 126: Dear Mr. BuffettSun, March 21, 2010 @ 2:11PM DEAR MR. BUFFETT: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street, by Janet Tavakoli. 282 pages. Wiley, $24.95 Of the spate of books purporting to explain the Bush financial disasters, necessarily only a tiny number can be written by insiders who were on record against the antiregulatory policies before they brought the house down. Janet Tavakoli’s idiosyncratic “Dear Mr. Buffett” is among the first. Tavakoli, after a career in various investment banks, set up a consultancy in structured investment vehicles, those mysterious (even to their authors) “financial products” that turned out to be the equivalent of botulism for securities. “My client list is short and elite,” she writes. It must surely have been short. SIVs, like collateralized debt obligations or auction rate student loan bonds, exploded in size, to literally uncounted trillions following the (mostly symbolic) repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999.
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F.O.P (Fresh Off da Plane)
 Chris Hamilton |
Violation of church and state!!!Tue, March 9, 2010 @ 9:12PM (Just kidding.) (Kinda.) I know that the county is going broke, but I'm tempted to complain on the basis of violation of church (Not really.) as the basis for when you get placed on hold when you call a Maui County office, get placed on hold and are forced to listen to the same Christmas song over and over and over. It might be "Greensleeves," too. I can't tell. It's so slow and monotonous. Even for a haole from Minnesota, this is bad. And I've danced to polka. It's really not that it's a Christmas tune: It's that it sounds soooo just yuck. It's played on what appears to be a Casio keyboard circa 1980. Can't someone's 16-year-old niece or nephew download a better "on hold" tune from at least the last two decades? They gotta have the technology to do even a little better. Don't they ever call their own office? Isn't someone embarrassed enough to take a few minutes and change it? Please.
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Writer's Block
 Ilima Loomis |
Hey There, Mr. New Media GuyFri, March 5, 2010 @ 4:16PM Hey there, Mr. New Media Guy. It's me, Old Media. You know, the dinosaur. I'm way over here, in the back row of the planning commission. It might be kind of hard to see me from where you're sitting at Starbucks, blogging about my last story, but can I just say one thing? These seats are hard. So, apparently I'm dying. I am aware of this, because, while I am indeed a member of the old guard, I actually do read your blog. Hoo-boy, am I soooo no longer relevant. You called it, Mr. New Media Guy. I have totally not harnessed the full power of social media. Yup, I'm a gonner. And that's just tragic, Mr. New Media Guy -- especially for you, because without me, you're not going to have a lot of news to “report.” Now, don't get all huffy, Mr. Laid-Off Journalist Blogger and Mr. Multitasking Reporter Who Tweets. I know you guys are out there getting the story too. Twitter, blog, print, whatever. You're doing original reporting, so we cool. No, I'm talking to Mr.
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