When it comes to comic opera, there are few to rival Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)," the season opener for Hawaii Opera Theatre. Not one, not two, but four romantic couples mix 'n' match in zany confusion and lighthearted intrigue for one "folle journée" (crazy day), the work's subtitle.

Hawai'i may move up its primary election — the nation's latest — to August so that it would comply with a new federal law meant to give deployed troops enough time to vote.

When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Hawai'i a couple of weeks ago, like many visitors she went to the USS Arizona Memorial to pay her respects to the 1,177 sailors and Marines who died in that battleship sunk during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.