
APPLAUSE

Dear Pamela,
I recently lost my balance at Mililani Town Center due to my brain tumor.
CLICK CHICK

If you’re a lap swimmer, you know that going back and forth in the pool can be monotonous. I always enjoy listening to music while I’m running, but swimming?
Read Column>>CURRENTS

If someone were to ask you what the most common injury suffered by canoe paddlers is, what would your answer be? Is it lower back strains? Or how about an arm or hand injury, or a pulled muscle in your torso?
Read Column>>GOOD NEIGHBORS

Before the documentary This Is It sold out in many theaters nationwide last week, Pauwilo Look and a slew of Jackson fans were staging a tribute of their own.
Read Column>>GUEST COLUMN
Editor’s note: Hakim Ouansafi is the president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii. In his column Just What We Need, Islam Day (May 20), Jerry Coffee argues against having a state-sponsored Islam Day based on his (mis)understanding of Islam’s position on women.
Read Column>>MIDWEEK POLL
SCOTT BELLUOMINI
“Move to Hawaii from California five years ago. It’s a great place to live.”
MOONLIGHTING

The young man sitting and facing me is reed-slender and sports a little stubble on his chin. Dazzman Toguchi looks like a typical 20-something local boy. You’d never guess he makes his living dressing up as a woman.
Read Column>>OLD FRIENDS

KHON2 News’ Olena Heu shares her energetic spirit with viewers as she was recently named co-anchor of Wake Up 2day
Read Column>>PET PARADE
PROOF POSITIVE

It’s been a trying time for our neighbors across the Pacific. In recent months, they’ve had to endure a tsunami in American Samoa, several typhoons in the Philippines and an earthquake in Indonesia.
Read Column>>SUSAN'S PAGE

The Emmy Awards and the National POW/MIA Recognition ceremony at Punchbowl came on the same weekend. One garnered a huge celebrity audience and TV viewers, the other a smattering of mostly military servicemen and women, active and retirees, and their families.
Read Column>>THE YOUNG VIEW

“Women are so complicated,” many of my male friends lament. “It’s so hard to know what they want.”
Read Column>>WAHA NUI

We haven’t heard the last word from Kailua author Ian MacMillan, who died of pancreatic cancer last December. Mutual Publishing has released his final novel, Bone Hook, posthumously, and it’s what they call an engaging mystery and whodunit page-turner - set in Kailua, of course.
Read Column>>WHAT'S NEXT

Every once in a while, just when I’m thinking I have a really hard job, something comes along that turns it around. I had a harrowing week at work and suddenly received a phone call.
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