Where would the world be without the year 1969? The 12 calendar months provided people with so much to remember, so much to comb over in the decades since. From music and beyond, the time period was ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Spacey has signed on to lead a World War 2 drama titled Melodies in the Forest. The project is produced by Ventitre SRL in co-production with Pink Flamingo Media Group. Principal ...

An Oahu halau whose kumu hula is a Keaukaha native made a clean sweep of the kane and overall categories at the 53rd Annual Merrie Monarch Festival hula competition. Halau Hi‘iakainamakalehua, under ...

HILO, Hawaiʻi (Island News) -- Hālau Hiʻiakaināmakalehua was named the overall winner of the 2026 Merrie Monarch Festival on Saturday. They placed first after performing “Hulihia Ka ʻĀpapa Ka Unu ...

Edith Kanakaʻole Stadium lit up Wednesday for Hōʻike night at the 63rd annual Merrie Monarch Festival, a breathtaking exhibition of hula and mele.

Friday was group hula kahiko night at the Merrie Monarch Festival’s hula competition. There were 29 ancient hula performances, 17 by wahine and 12 by kane, with the evening’s festivities concluding ...

Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...

Merrie Carol (Hau) Twohig, born on Christmas Day in 1943, entered eternal life surrounded by the love of her family on February 11th, 2026. The cherished only child of Clarence and Millie (Brandt) Hau ...

WASHINGTON – Newly released records show Dallas crisis consultant Merrie Spaeth kept contacting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years after his 2008 guilty plea, despite previously saying she ...

Building on the folk-singer-songwriter phase of the ’60s, the 1970s rock scene began to take on a softer edge. This would, rather uninventively, become known as “soft rock.” The ’70s would be rife ...

There’s no teaser video offering examples of what these new takes on songs from the Chrono Trigger soundtrack will sound like. However, we do know what the tracklist looks like. In some cases, the ...

WASHINGTON - Dallas area crisis communications specialist Merrie Spaeth advised financier Jeffrey Epstein on public relations strategy in 2008 as he faced allegations of sexually exploiting underage ...