A potluck picnic lunch in Spreckelsville sure sounds nice, huh? More than the makings for a swell Saturday, it’s the starts of the Sierra Club’s annual meeting. Add to the fellowship a noontime panel discussion themed “Sharing the Water,” and a feel-good awards ceremony for three of Maui’s do-gooders, and you’re afternoon is set.

Sadly, Jacques is gone. And, “Jacques owned Friday nights on the North Shore,” says Steven Cappelli, owner of Casanova in Makawao. Fear not. The man who brought the beats to the night’s famed “Fusion”—DJ Del Sol—has found a new Friday home, further up the mount hailed the House of the Sun. You guessed it.

Isn’t our community blessed to have the Bailey House Museum as a hub of local history? Beyond providing a resource for the bygone-giddy, the locale—vibrant green grounds contrasted against the white mortar of the missionary-era house, alive in the sun and pocketed with deep shade—is a pleasure. This Sunday is the perfect opportunity for your ‘ohana to

Free yoga, this Saturday… “Find upward bliss in the downward dog,” says Yoga Alliance, the nonprofit entity and “international gold standard for professional yoga teachers and schools that protect the health and welfare of society.” Founders of the annual Yoga Day USA (set for this Saturday), the organization encourages their registered schools

“My hope and dream is to, through modern day theatrical skills and the power of black light body painting, present a deeper understanding of the Hawaiian culture,” writes Rachel DeBoer, whose body art is as inspired as it is prolific. “[T]o not just the local community, but also capture even a glimpse or small essence of its power and beauty for the visitor to take away with them, beyond what has been offered before.”

If you’ve been spelunking for so long that precious Pick/blog space need be wasted with background on this visiting celeb, then you are too far-Gollum to be helped. It’s Roseanne. The Domestic Goddess.

Are you and your 99 friends also domestic goddesses and going to the show? You can decorate yourselves with 2.25” or 3.5” buttons ($129.99 – $181.99, 100 qty)—emblazoned with a magical yellow glove—from www.roseanneworld.com! However, the logo stein ($18.19) or BBQ apron ($21.49) might be more appropriate. And practical (sort of).

Here on Maui, it stands that folks will celebrate beyond that of mere (or incongruent) observance. At 8:30am, the African Americans on Maui group will convene the Stone of Hope Monument (200 S. High St.) for a silent march to Café Marc Aurel (28 N. Market St.), where the event will continue with “speakers African dancing and drumming and entertainment” until noon. Make a day of it with a stroll (or roll) down Main to Kaahumanu Ave., to check in with the African American Heritage Foundation of Maui; who will meet at Maui Community College

Hana Hou! reports his LA workplace is a “wood-paneled second-story office, filled with Kerouac novels, award placards, war memorabilia and a filing system that covers the floor next to his desk, he’s filled with nostalgia for his family and his Island homeland.”

From start to finish, it is a glass of chilled nectar for the eyes and heart. The costuming alone reconverts even the zealot to sing the praises that Textile is a gracious and visceral goddess. Set in Botswana, with impeccable 70’s revival styling, you for a moment you dare to assume period piece. But with the regular play of slim digital cameras, blue tooth and “boom boom boxes,” it welcomingly amalgamates

Words by Erin Smith / Photos by Darcie Walker
While in Canada this December, shooting a music video for their single “Stolen Car,” and an episode of Aux TV’s show Band Foto, Maui’s own The Throwdowns took some time to test the waters. The frozen waters of Ontario’s Lake Erie.

Typically an event that happens on New Year’s Day, The Throwdowns did their own dip in mid-December, plunging into the icy cold waters, head first.  Rumor has it, everybody made it out alive. They are now back on Maui, enjoying the warm …