The BYU–Hawaii Women’s Organization held its first luncheon for 2016 and set the tone for upcoming luncheons planned in the next months.

After two years modeling in New York, Utah native Rosemary Card said she felt she “had so much more to offer to the world than walking in a straight line in stilettos.”

The Moanikeala Hula Festival welcomed seven different halaus or hula schools to the Polynesian Cultural Center to honor the late Sally Naluai with hula performances in the Hawaiian Village courtyard on Jan. 16.

As of Jan. 8, 2016, the druglord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo,” is once again behind bars within the same prison from which he escaped six months ago.

Alan Rickman, beloved British actor, best known by the generation of students at BYU–Hawaii for his role as Severus Snape in the “Harry Potter” movie franchise, died on Jan. 14, 2016 from cancer at the age of 69.

David Bowie, one of the founding fathers of modern pop music, passed away two days after his 69th birthday on Jan. 10, 2016 of natural causes in the presence of his family.

The music streaming giant Spotify has had two class-action lawsuits filed against it since late December 2015 over unpaid royalties and improperly licensed music.

President Barack Obama delivered his eighth and final State of the Union Address to the United States’ Congress on Jan. 11, 2016.

Paid internships are being offered to college students this summer by the Board of the Society of Professional Journalists SPJ, Hawaii Chapter. The internships are for students interested in a journalistic writing or broadcast career who either are Hawaii residents attending college who graduated from a Hawaiian high school, or a student of any background going to college in Hawaii.