Great video and photos of lava activity at Kilauea volcano’s Halemaumau crater just keep coming! Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory this week shot some of the best footage yet of Halemaumau’s lava lake during one of its periodic draining cycles. The video arrives a week after HVO shared some of the clearest footage it […]
King Kamehameha Day was yesterday—June 11. It was a state holiday. Hawaiian royal societies held tradition-steeped ceremonies in the king’s honor. Schools were closed. State workers had the day off. Street parking was free. So why continue celebrating the holiday into the weekend? Well, we do love a good Saturday morning parade. The annual King
There were no multi-multi-category award winners at last night’s Na Hoku Hanohano Awards a la Hoku Zuttermeister’s six Hoku in 2008 or Kealii Reichel’s seven in 2004. No single artist walking out the doors of the Sheraton Waikiki’s Hawaii Ballroom with a handful of trophies. But that’s what made victory all the more sweeter for
Think four days of gastronomic and oenophilist nirvana, throw in an oceanside location at one of Maui’s premier luxury resorts and you’d still have to actually attend the Kapalua Wine & Food Festival to truly grasp its grand appeal for foodies. The 28th annual edition of this pioneering and esteemed Hawaii food and drink festival
Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory this week released some of the clearest video footage yet captured of lava activity within Kilauea volcano’s Halemaumau crater vent. Since opening in March 2008, the summit vent has sent out a thick plume of steam and ash into the skies over the Big Island of Hawaii volcano. Six
The photos you see here nearly wound up in a Honolulu landfill. Along with 800 other turn-of-the-20th-century glass plate photos of the Kingdom of Hawaii taken by Bertram Gabriel Bellinghausen, they were marked for trash collectors by a Honolulu private school in 1964 before someone wisely saved them. Bellinghausen was a young Marianist brother from
The Maui Writers Conference is now the Hawaii Writers Conference, and it’s bringing in Norah Jones for a private concert. Don’t worry. The annual week-long conference will still host its usual handful of New York Times bestselling authors, Academy Award-winning screenwriters and big time agents, editors and publishers, too. Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jones will be on
For the second year in a row, two Hawaii beaches made Dr. Steven P. Leatherman’s—a.k.a. Dr. Beach’s—list of America’s Best Beaches. And one of them is no. 1: Hanalei Beach on the north shore of Kauai, which moves up from no. 2 last year. Hamoa Beach, on Maui’s lush and remote east side near Hana,
If you’re on Oahu, consider your summer reading list and backyard barbecue soundtrack complete. The Hawaii Book & Music Festival is happening Saturday and Sunday in Honolulu. Looking for a superabundance of literature and music created and published here in Hawaii, all in one location? We’d be hard pressed to think of a better place
Lanai City, one of Hawaii’s last largely intact plantation towns, has been included in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s latest list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, released this week. The island of Lanai’s modestly-populated residential center— also the former hub of its long-gone pineapple industry—was included on the annual list due to
Here’s another great deal on hotel rooms in Hawaii this summer and fall. Aston Hotels & Resorts is offering 40 percent off daily room rates at all of its Hawaii properties this summer and fall with its “Vacation Bailout” program. If you can plan a trip here for any time between June 12 through Dec.
Ever watch hula at a resort or luau? It’s more than just a show. It is a perpetuation of Hawaiian culture passed down through generations. It’s a way of belonging. A way of life. For the May/June 2009 issue of HAWAII Magazine, I spent a few days on Kauai with the women of halau Na
