If you’re a fan of Kona coffee and on Hawaii’s Big Island in the week ahead, start prepping mind, body and soul for an impending caffeine jolt. The Kona Coffee Cultural festival begins its 38th annual celebration of the bean that made the Big Island’s west side famous tomorrow (Nov. 7). Events from free coffee […]
The long distance between Beretania Street and Pennsylvania Avenue seemed a bit smaller last night. Hawaii born-and-raised Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America. The first-term Illinois senator ended his epic two-year campaign for the White House last night with decisive victory margins in both the popular vote and
Madelyn Payne Dunham, the grandmother of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, died late last night in Honolulu. She was 86. “It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer,” Obama said in a statement. “She was the cornerstone of our family, and a
One of the best things about having HawaiiMagazine .com as a complement to our print publication HAWAII Magazine has been the ability to bring you even more of the Islands. Travel news and tips. Kilauea volcano news as it happens. Videos. Photos from readers like you. More culture, activities and food. And starting this weekend,
Gayot’s just-released 2008 list of the Top 40 Restaurants in the United States has just one Hawaii restaurant on it: Chef Mavro. The Honolulu restaurant, owned and masterminded by Chef George Mavrothalassitis, drew kudos from Gayot for its “commitment to Hawaiian regional cuisine, unwavering devotion to island ingredients and a stalwart belief in his dedicated
Vacationing “green” on Hawaii’s Big Island just got easier. A brand new Big Island Visitors Bureau Web site is helping visitors research and plan environmentally-conscious vacations on the island. Want to know which resorts, bed and breakfasts and restaurants have adopted sustainable practices such as recycling, composting and water conservation? The BIVB’s “Sustainable Travel on
For this month’s Hidden Hawaii slideshow, we take you to the picturesque Hana coast on the island of Maui. Once again, photographer David Croxford and HAWAII Magazine editor John Heckathorn took roads less traveled in search of hidden treasures in familiar places. They took a single road this time—the notoriously narrow and winding Hana Highway
We found a great video in our e-mail this morning of just-hatched Hawaii hawksbill sea turtles making their way to the ocean. The video was shot on the Kau coastline of Hawaii’s Big Island near Punaluu and posted by Big Island videonews.com. The honu—Hawaiian for “turtle”—were watched over by residents of the area for weeks
Hawaii-born-and-raised Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will return to Oahu later this week to visit his ailing grandmother. Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs said today that all campaign events scheduled for Thursday and Friday were being canceled. Madelyn Payne Dunham, Obama’s 85-year-old grandmother who lives in Honolulu, was released from a hospital stay last week. “In
In the November/December 2008 issue of HAWAII Magazine, we take you along on a sunset and evening trip to the summit of Mauna Kea for the ultimate stargazing experience. If you’ve already read about the summit journey in the current HAWAII, great. If you haven’t, pick up a copy at most national bookstores and newsstands,
It may be the world’s first resort to incorporate a working taro loi, water slides erupting from a faux volcano, and Disney characters doing the backstroke in its pool. Not to mention steel roof designs that look like pili grass hale. Walt Disney Parks & Resorts offered a sneak peek of plans for its first-ever
The otherworldly slopes of Mauna Kea on Hawaii’s Big Island will soon test a new lunar robot. Scarab, a four-wheeled robot designed to extract compounds from the lunar soil that could be helpful to future explorers, will be tested on Hawaii’s highest mountain from Nov. 1 to 13. The lava rock- and cinder cone-strewn surface
