A. Kam Napier

1 week ago | alohastatedaily.com | A. Kam Napier

Since its May 23 release in 4,410 theaters, Disney's live-action remake of "Lilo & Stitch" has earned $183 million domestically plus nearly $159 million internationally, according to boxofficemojo.com. It was the top performer of Memorial Day weekend, earning $145.5 million, nearly double that of the second big release, "Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning", at just over $77 million. The strength of the two releases has Hollywood observers thrilled.

3 weeks ago | alohastatedaily.com | A. Kam Napier

The senator is mad, folks, really mad!A. Kam NapierMay 12, 2025less than a minute readNo one locally is reporting on this, but in case you were out having a lovely Mother's Day weekend and a real life, you might have missed knowing that one of Hawai‘i's two U.S. senators is so upset that he's dropping f-bombs on X and apparently endorsing elected officials interfering with the work of federal agents. What he's referring to are reports that the Trump administration is weighing arrests of Reps.

1 month ago | alohastatedaily.com | A. Kam Napier

Our friends at Honolulu Civil Beat hosted a doozy of a column on Thursday, May 1, by career political analyst Neal Milner, titled "Use Civics Classes To Fight Back Against Authoritarianism — Teachers will have to walk a fine line, but it's not OK to pretend our democracy is functioning properly."You should absolutely read it. I mean, you kind of just did, the headline and subtitle get right to the point.

1 month ago | alohastatedaily.com | A. Kam Napier

I wonder if there’s a civics course UH President Wendy Hensel can audit, because on Tuesday, April 22, she issued a statement on Instagram that suggests she may have forgotten the nature of the institution she works for. “Today, I joined over 190 college and university leaders in signing a statement opposing government overreach and political interference in higher education,”  Hensel wrote.

1 month ago | alohastatedaily.com | A. Kam Napier

I ran across while checking out the online offerings of historic Hawai‘i photos at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library Digital Image Collections. The date jumped out at me — April 1925, a hundred years ago, to the month. The image is described as "Business section of Honolulu," dated April 8, 1925, donated by the Seiju and Ayako Ifuku family.