And now, another pick from our 2008 “Best of Hawaii” cover feature. Pick up a copy of HAWAII Magazine’s current September/ October 2008 issue and you’ll find more than 91 reader and writer picks celebrating the best Hawaii has to offer. Our reader picks include their favorite beach, town, place to eat, advice for a […]
Earlier this year, Delta Airlines cancelled three routes to Hawaii. They’re being restarted due to increased demand. The routes are a Monday flight from Atlanta to Honolulu, a Wednesday flight from Los Angeles to Kauai and a Thursday flight from Los Angeles to Kona. Flights begin Oct. 1. You can make reservations now. In addition
It’s time to catch up with our Web posts again! Whether you’re new toHawaiiMaga-zine.com or one of our regular visitors, we know how it is. Sometimes you miss two, or even a whole week’s worth, of our daily posts while they’re still on the homepage. A couple months back, we brought some of our best
Among the HAWAII Magazine editorial staff picks for our 2008 “Best of Hawaii” cover feature is our “best reason to get up before dawn on a Saturday.” We like sleeping in on weekends as much as anyone else. But we’ll rise before the roosters crow for the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation’s weekly Saturday Farmers’ Market
A lava lake is bubbling under the surface of Kilauea volcano’s summit. Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on Hawaii’s Big Island discovered the lake yesterday during a routine flyby over the summit’s active Halemaumau crater vent. It was the first time they had seen such activity at the vent since it opened up with
HawaiiMagazine.com readers really love POG. Back in February, we answered a reader query about where to find POG outside of Hawaii. POG, for folks unfamiliar, is a sweet blend of passion fruit, orange and guava juices, long a favorite of Hawaii residents. We had no idea how beloved POG was outside of Hawaii. Here it’s
The North Shore of Oahu’s winter monster wave season is three months away. The surf forecast today promises swells of two feet or less. Good time, we think, for surf fans to bone up on better days at the Honolulu Academy of Arts’ three-week wave film fest “Kowabunga! Summer Cinema Surf Safari.” A half-dozen films
HAWAII Magazine’s annual “Best of Hawaii” issue is out now. In it you’ll find more than 91 picks from our readers and writers revealing all of the best our Islands have to offer. Find out who, what and where HAWAII readers’ chose as their favorite beach, favorite town, favorite place to eat, favorite musician and
Kilauea volcano fanatics will want to check out the video below geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory recently posted of the familiar Halemaumau crater steam plume. The time-lapse video, shot over a six-minute period on August 20, shows what happens when the normally white plume—mostly made up of steam and colorless sulfur-dioxide gas—suddenly mixes with
All due respect to Michael Phelps, but Oahu-raised Bryan Clay became “the world’s greatest athlete” today. Clay stayed ahead of competitors through two days and all 10 events of the Olympic decathlon competition to take home the gold medal. He is the first U.S. athlete to win the event since Dan O’Brien at the 1996
I like sake. Good sake. The Joy of Sake, a Honolulu tasting fest, is all about good sake. Much of it, award-winning sake. It’s also about good food … Japanese cuisine from a dozen of Honolulu’s finest restaurants including Nobu Waikiki, Hoku’s, Wasabi & Nadaman and Chai’s Island Bistro. Honolulu began this event, and has
January 2, 2009. That’s when the long-shuttered Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on Hawaii’s Big Island will reopen. Reservations are being taken now. The 43-year-old luxury resort shut down in October 2006 after an earthquake caused extensive structural damage and safety concerns. More than $150 million has since been poured into the venerable Kohala Coast resort’s
