Honolulu’s city parks and botanical gardens reopened on May 1 to allow people to walk, run and exercise while the state is shutdown because of the spread of COVID-19. The following day, the state reopened more than 25 of its parks across the Islands for the same purpose: so people can exercise but nothing else. […]
This is part of our “Shop With Aloha” series. If you’re searching supermarkets and online stores for flour and yeast to fulfill your #quarantinelife carb habit, stop. We’ve got a way easier—and tastier—way to satisfy your isolation cravings: Order fresh malasadas from Hawaiʻi.
While traveling to Hawaiʻi at the moment isn’t recommended—with a two-week mandatory quarantine required for all incoming visitors and hefty fines for rule-breakers—that doesn’t mean we can’t pay homage to our visitors on National Tourist Appreciation Day today. And to celebrate that sense of wanderlust, we’ve compiled 15 Island vacation pictures submitted by you, our readers, on
The reopening of Honolulu’s 300 parks, including Oʻahu’s five botanical gardens, on May 1 went smoothy. So Mayor Kirk Caldwell decided to allow other types of businesses to reopen, including one-on-one private tutoring, public and private golf courses, florists, car dealers selling cars by appointment, real estate services and automated service providers like car washes.
Who doesn’t want a gift from Hawaiʻi? (Even I do—and I live here!) We bet your mom would, too. With Mother’s Day nearing, here are 12 gift ideas—at all price points, for all moms, every one made or designed in the Islands—that will make her imagine she’s in paradise. (Order soon, though!) 1. Quilted Bag,
May Day is Lei Day in Hawaiʻi. But this year—due to the COVID-19 pandemic—there won’t be the same kinds of celebrations. For starters, Honolulu’s 93rd annual Lei Day Celebration at Kapiʻolani Park has been canceled, and, with social distancing, we can’t even greet each other with lei and kisses on the cheek. SEE ALSO: How
Who doesn’t love poke? In our second video in our new cooking series, “HAWAIʻI in the Kitchen,” chef-owner Jeremy Shigekane of the famed Chef Mavro in Honolulu and M by Chef Mavro shows us how to make the restaurant’s M Poke with a house-made ginger scallion sauce. It’s the perfect pūpū (appetizer) for your Friday pau hana.
For anyone working from home, video conference calls are the new normal. And since we all can’t travel right now, why not pretend you’re working from paradise? Our talented staff photographers—David Croxford (@magphotoguy) and Aaron K. Yoshino (@honozooloo)—snapped these gorgeous photos of Oʻahu, from an inspiring sunrise at Lanikai to a secluded stretch of sand at
Haʻikū Stairs, a 3,922-step trail to the summit of the Koʻolau Mountains on Oʻahu’s Windward Side, moved one step closer to legally opening to the public. Someday. On Monday the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, which owns and manages the land under the stairs, voted unanimously to transfer the land to the city. (The preferred
We could all use some good news. And what‘s better than news that two adorable twin ring-tailed lemurs were born at the Honolulu Zoo on April 18? Photo: Courtesy of the Honolulu Zoo Ring-tailed lemurs are listed as endangered and can only be found living in the wild in Madagascar. They are recognized for their approximate two-foot long
It’s not the easiest shop to find. But once you do—and once you try Snack Addicted’s chiplike beef jerky—you’ll commit its location to memory. Snack Addicted’s retail space—before the spread of COVID-19 forced a statewide shutdown—is near Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, occupying a space on the second level of a warehouse with no street-facing
It sounds like the dream Hawaiʻi life: Buying an old farm in Puna on Hawaiʻi Island off an ad on Craiglist to start growing coffee. You wake up to the quiet of a farm, living minutes from the ocean, basking in the Island sunshine. Oh, and you’ve got your own coffee, too. Part of that
