There’s a panging sensation at the back of my eyeballs, whenever I must suppress my misty pride for Wailuku’s Market Street. Sure it’s home to MauiTime, but it’s the composite of our cooler-than-cool neighbors that make this place so gosh-darned special. Daytime strolls may best capture the street’s sunny charm, but for one night a month—when the sun dips low and traffic is stopped—Market Street proves why it’s the best host for full-effect First Friday fare. July’s festivities celebrate a special second-birthday for purveyors of HI-style hip, Maui Thing. Their Summer Line will make its grand debut down the catwalk, while…

I’ll stress that when we at MauiTime say “swank,” we mean it; and plans for the Plantation Jazz benefit for the Arts Education for Children Group (AECG) promise nothing but. The organization, “dedicated to improving the quality of education in our schools by

Taste Education, Maui County’s 3rd Annual Agricultural Festival, is to be celebrated Saturday, April 3rd at Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapu.  Eating healthy, delicious food fills you up in a way coca cola’s and three musketeers bars can not.  I know its hard to believe, but if you give healthy eating an honest chance, it won’t be long before you don’t even give McDonalds a second glance and head straight home to that spinach-tomato wrap.  Taste Education and Slow Food Maui will give six demonstrations designed to make your mouth …

Mana’o Radio (broadcasting at 91.5 FM and www.manaoradio.com), is Maui’s Free-Form Live, Commerical-Free, Non-profit Radio Station.  Help support their good-intentions to continue to provide music for Hawaii by celebrating their 8th anniversary and remembering the co-founder, Barry Shannon, this weekend.  Hopefully by when the festival opens, these overcast skies and tsunami scares will have given it a rest, and we can enjoy the return to normal Hawaii weather by basking in the sun at this all-day, open-air music festival.  The festival will feature abot fifteen bands, including some of the usual suspects, such as Amy Hanaiali’i and her …