Maybe you need the arts even more when you've been laid off. If so, you're in luck because tickets at Kumu Kahua Theatre are only $5 on Thursdays with "proof of unemployment." Other Thursday discounts include senior ($11) and student ($5) tickets. Everybody else pays a discounted $13 on Thursdays to see plays, by Hawai'i playwrights, about life in Hawai'i. Playing now: "The Statehood Project." Coming next: "Voices From Okinawa."

Residents of Kalama'ula on Moloka'i were allowed to stay in their homes as shifting winds pushed away a brushfire that had scorched more than 6,000 acres, threatening the Hotel Molokai, injuring a firefighter and burning a carport.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Electronic coupons, arriving by cell phone, Twitter, e-mail and Facebook, are helping generate an old standby's comeback and bringing in new, younger customers.