Viola Gaskell

Sep 18, 2024 | fluxhawaii.com | Viola Gaskell |Arriana Veloso

Images by Joshua Galinato and Savannah GlasgowOn the morning of August 8, 2023, Jerome Menesses was supposed to start his new job as a teacher at Lahaina Intermediate School. Instead, the 30-year-old awoke to an email that said school had been canceled and the sight of smoke billowing from the mountainside.

Mar 12, 2024 | fluxhawaii.com | Viola Gaskell |Arriana Veloso

Images by Viola GaskellSince early 2022, woodworker Brennen Cunningham and creative producer Hannah May have been residing in a historic home perched among the treetops of Mānoa Valley’s ‘ewa slopes. Situated at the end of a steep path composed of approximately 84 lava rock steps, the house presents an unassuming exterior which shelters a warm, monastic Japanese-inspired home.

Mar 12, 2024 | flipboard.com | Viola Gaskell

Australia12 hours ago'Frightful' discovery on Aussie beach some think could be worth a fortuneYahoo News - Laura Koefoed • 12hA large, stinking lump has been found off of an Aussie beach and while some have speculated the "frightful" object could be a rotting sponge, others …Airports4 hours agoA man drops off his fiancée at the airport. She says, 'Thanks, we're on a break now.' Man cancels the wedding.

Sep 11, 2023 | eater.com | Viola Gaskell

Brendan Smith/Chef Hui On the morning of August 8, chef Isaac Bancaco rode his bike to Pacific’o on the Beach, the upscale Pacific Rim restaurant he helmed on Front Street, on Lahaina’s historic waterfront. The wind was up, and the power was out. Bancaco taped “do not open” notes to the fridge and freezer doors, then zigzagged around the neighborhood to see how far the outage went.

May 16, 2023 | laptrinhx.com | Viola Gaskell

A cadre of illustrious chefs come together with an East Maui community where the kua‘āina lifestyle persists. On a rainy weekend this past spring, six Hawai‘i chefs gathered in Hāna to reconnect with the hunters, fishermen, and farmers of East Maui. These two groups — acclaimed chefs and everyday hunter-gatherers — embarked on what might have initially appeared to be an unlikely friendship when they first met in 2016.