Starting today, couples can start planning larger outdoor weddings on Oʻahu. Under the current Tier 3 restrictions, weddings—held at outdoor venues only—can have up to 100 people per event (including staff). This change comes after a big push from Hawaiʻi’s wedding professionals, who pointed out that in Tier 3 funerals were allowed to have more […]
Aloha Friday Picks is a weekly news blog that will run every Friday and features three things we recommend you do, try or experience over the weekend. Send us tips at media@hawaiimagazine.staging.upspringsites.com. The one good thing to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic? A lot of events are now virtual; meaning we can attend
Starting on Monday, March 29, Koko Crater hike in East Oʻahu will be closed on weekdays as the city removes debris and installs safety signs along the popular trail. That means the hike up the tramway—remnants of an abandoned railroad track built by the U.S. Army in 1942—will be closed to hikers on weekdays through
Most of us who grew up in Hawaiʻi have a special connection to Love’s Bakery—even if we didn’t know it at the time. Founded in 1851, the local bakery—its products easily recognizable by its friendly yellow-and-red label and gingham checks—has been part of Hawaiʻi potlucks, picnics, lunch boxes and dinner tables for nearly 170 years.
I spend a lot of time in Waikīkī, and I usually know what’s new here before anyone else. Except this time. I walked down a side street—Kealohilani Avenue, to be specific, which connects Kalākaua and Kūhiō avenues—and noticed a food truck parked against the backside of the ʻAlohilani Resort Waikīkī Beach. There was no one
Aloha Friday Picks is a weekly news blog that will run every Friday and features three things we recommend you do, try or experience over the weekend. Send us tips at media@hawaiimagazine.staging.upspringsites.com. It’s been raining all week—but there’s sunshine in the forecast starting today. Visit Sea Life Park, which reopens this weekend, or head
For years, on my birthday, I would book a room in the historic wing of the Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort & Spa in Waikīkī. It was my splurge—a quiet night in the original hotel built in 1901, decades before Hawaiʻi, then a U.S. territory, became a state. That year, then-President William McKinley was assassinated
There are a few new residents at the Honolulu Zoo—and more days during the week you can view them. Starting Monday the 42-acre zoo will be open seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. And that means more time to spend with three new meerkats the zoo acquired—and a new baby sloth,
Visiting Kauaʻi just got a little easier. Starting April 5, the Garden Isle will rejoin the state’s Safe Travels testing program, which would allow travelers to bypass Hawaiʻi’s mandatory 10-day quarantine with a negative COVID-19 test taken 72 hours before arriving in the Islands. This is a big step to opening up Kauaʻi to tourism.
A year ago I attended a small wedding at a local restaurant in Kaimukī. There were maybe 50 people in total, many of whom flew in from Washington and California to celebrate the nuptials. We weren’t wearing masks, we were crammed into a small private room—and we shared food! What were we thinking! That same
Diana Duff used to run a 3.5-acre commercial coffee farm on the Big Island, so gardening in a 32-square-foot shouldn’t be that thrilling. Oh, but it is. Duff, a 77-year-old resident of Mānoa Gardens Elderly Housing, revels in her raised bed garden outside her apartment, flourishing with heads of butter lettuce, kale, eggplant, mint, parsley,
I spend most of my free time in the mountains on Oʻahu. And I can honestly say, there’s no better way to experience the natural beauty of the island than by hiking any of roughly 50 state-run trails. Hiking is something I do even when I’m traveling outside the Islands. Not only do they help
