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The window for Oscar voting ends Thursday and one short film hoping to be nominated for an Academy Award is "Hawaiian Soul." The film depicts a key moment in the life of Native Hawaiian activist and musician George Helm, who helped lead the effort to stop the bombing of Kaho’olawe in the 1970s.
Thirty-two years ago this month, the U.S. government stopped a practice it had been conducting since late 1941: the military bombing of Kahoʻolawe. As part of an ongoing project with the Center for Oral History at UH Mānoa, HPR brings you the voices of two Native Hawaiians who lived through that period.
This week in Honolulu: Eat delicious Girls Day treats, enjoy an exhibit by Hawai‘i artists, explore a canoe festival and take Mediterranean cooking classes.
HONOLULU’s first-ever list of the most iconic, trenchant and irresistible books about Hawai‘i, as voted by a panel of literary community luminaries.