The brand new redux of Hawaii Five-0 has a premiere date—Sept. 20 at 10 p.m., Eastern time (9 p.m., Hawaii time), in a prime primetime spot after the CBS network’s high-rated block of Monday night comedies. McGarrett and Danno after How I Met Your Mother and Two And A Half Men? Sure, we’ll take it. […]
HAWAII Magazine reader Beth Kowalski e-mailed us with a question about our lack of coverage of Kilauea Volcano activity in recent months: Has activity at Kilauea volcano not been newsworthy lately? Your website used to write often in 2008 and 2009 about lava activity at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. But the last story I found
CBS this week released an extended trailer for its fall season redux of the classic Island-filmed TV crime drama Hawaii Five-0. Filming of the initial episodes of the new Five-0 has already begun on Oahu. Our take on the new 3 minute, 46 second clip? After watching it a handful of times, we dug it
So you can’t visit Hawaii this summer. Major bummer, we agree. But how about this fall? Aston Hotels & Resorts’ “50 Days of Aloha” promotion is offering discounted daily room rates—of up to 50% off standard rates—at 22 Aston properties on Oahu, Maui, the Big Island and Kauai for travel between Aug. 24 and Dec.
Oahu’s Ala Moana Hotel is reviving its spring 40th anniversary $40 per night room rate promotion for the entire month of August, and offering free stays to anyone born on the hotel’s 1970 opening day. Able to pencil in a three- to five-night Hawaii summer vacation as soon as next month? The Outrigger Hotels &
Want to be among the first guests at Disney’s Aulani Resort & Spa when its first phase opens on Aug. 29, 2011? Walt Disney Parks & Resorts will begin accepting reservations for its first Hawaii hotel/timeshare property on Aug. 2, more than a year out from the resort’s opening date. The 360 hotel room/481 multi-bedroom
When gathering the best ingredients for making a meal you can’t beat buying local. And no matter where you are in the world, farmers markets are a great place to start looking. In Hawaii, dozens of weekly farmers markets have sprung up in communities statewide in recent years making it convenient to skip a trip
After months of behind the scenes pre-production work, the fourth film in Disney’s blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides, finally began filming last week in Hawaii. But unlike most Hollywood productions, which keep plot details and photos from the set shrouded in secrecy until just before release, Walt Disney Pictures and producer
Hungry? Thirsty? On Maui this week? The Kapalua Wine & Food Festival begins this Thursday, June 24, at west Maui’s luxe Ritz-Carlton Kapalua Resort. One of Hawaii’s most venerable food events, the fest is pretty much foodie nirvana—four days of grand dinners, wine and food tastings and pairings a wine tour, and culinary demonstrations hosted
Live Hawaiian music. Great local food. A gorgeous Waikiki sunset. Hawaiian monk seals after dark. All of the expected ingredients should be in place for the Waikiki Aquarium’s annual summer concert series Ke Kani O Ke Kai—Hawaiian for “the sound of the ocean.” The 13th summer season of evening concerts mixed with nighttime tours of
Congratulations! It’s a boy! Now he needs a name. Oahu’s Sea Life Park welcomed a new addition to its marine life family on Feb. 27—a healthy male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin born to longtime Dolphin Cove residents Laka and Kaleo. The growing young ‘un will finally get his public debut at the park on June 26.
After months of secrecy and swirling industry rumors, EDITION Hotels has revealed that the first of its planned international chain of luxury boutique properties will bow in Hawaii this fall. The Waikiki EDITION—the debut property of Marriott International and global hotelier Ian Schrager’s EDITION “lifestyle hotel” partnership—will open in October in a former wing of
