Roger Jellinek, Executive Director of the 8th annual Hawaii Book & Music Fesetival, Frank Haas, chair of the Festival Board, and David Deluca, President of the Hawaii Book Publishers Association, talk about the upcoming Festival on May 18 and 19, the new features added this year, and the incredible number of participants including authors, musicians, and entertainers from all over the state.

HOT's final production of the 12-13 season, Tosca, opens on the 26th and runs for three performances. However, HOT has been very busy outside the production schedule, including the recent announcement of the hiring of a new Executive Director, and the new season, which begins next October with Puccini's Turandot, continues with a double bill of Pagliacci and Orff's Carmina Burana in a fully-staged version, and finishes with Gilbert & Sullivan's ebullient social satire The Mikado.

A strange new sculpture has been created in deepest Kaka'ako: it's called "A Small Area of Land," and it's completely created from dirt…just plain Hawaiian dirt, and it looks like (and is) a series of strata. It's a fascinating project, and the sculptor, Sean Connelly, explains his concept and how he carried it out. Trisha Legaso Goldberg, curator, and David Goldberg, the reality checker, join him to explain this unusual art project.

The piece called "A Small Area of Land" by Sean Connely.  For more information visit Interisland Terminal.

Donne Dawson, the Hawaii State Film Commissioner, returns to give us an update on the workings of the one state office you'd think would absolutely guarantee new, massive income for a state that sure could use it. Donne discusses how the Hawaii Film Office is currently operating and how the recovery from the restructioning in 2009 is progressing. It's not just all about getting permits from dozens of state offices -- why are tax incentives necessary, and how competitive are we in comparison to other states and countries?