This Week in TGIF: Surf Film Festival, Jazz

JULY 2012
FRI 06 / SAT 07 / SUN 08

Surf film festival captures the sport’s beauty and diversity

Drop in at the Honolulu Museum of Art for the rest of this month and get tubed. The Fifth Annual Surf Film Festival, which starts this weekend and runs through July 31, will screen 16 films that, like waves and the people who ride them, depict the sport as a multifaceted and beautiful thing. Filming the sport has become so popular that Gina Caruso, curator of film for the museum, said she has had plenty of films to pick from year after year, choosing films that have a positive message and avoid crass commercialism.

• Jazz players with years of experience unite at the Hawaii State Art Museum
• Presenters at the Hawaii State Farm Fair will include the young owner of a Maui lavender farm
• Sax man Gabe Baltazar finds himself with a fresh occupation, that of a writer about the jazz life
• Quick Bites: New eatery in Chinatown offers hearty bowls of ramen and more
• Best of Our Web: Jason Mraz, ‘Capital: Last Call,’ Mike Epps and more
• At the Movies: ‘Savages,’ ‘To Rome With Love,’ ‘Your Sister’s Sister’ and more
• Out ‘N’ About: Haleiwa bon dance, Xterra Freedom Fest Hawaii, Adega Portuguesa malasada giveaway and more
• Do It!: Mochipet, Anuhea at PCC, Dance Spectrum Hawaii, Moiliili bon dance
• To Do: Artspree, Korean Festival, Love Festival and more
• Calendars: Music, Nightclubs, On Stage