Every dog has his day. Looks like Duane “Dog” Chapman will get another. Cable channel A&E announced today it will produce fresh episodes of Dog the Bounty Hunter. The fifth season will begin airing July 16. A&E pulled the plug on the Hawaii-filmed “reality series” on November 2 after Chapman’s son Tucker leaked a private […]
The Wall Street Journal says Hawaii is dodging a tourism slowdown that has affected other Mainland vacation destinations—at least so far. According to the Journal, Hawaii visitor totals are up 2.8 percent for the first quarter of 2008, when compared to 2007 figures. Hawaii hotel occupancy rose 1.5 percent in the same period, while the
Hawaii actress and entertainer Loretta Ables Sayre received a Tony Award nomination today for her portrayal of Bloody Mary in the hit Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Ables Sayre’s nomination for best featured actress in a musical was one of 11 nominations earned by the critically-acclaimed revival of the pioneering Broadway musical.
HawaiiMagazine.com readers have been asking for an update on events at the Big Island’s Kilauea volcano. After a flurry of summit activity in the last couple of months—steam vent explosions, vog, evacuations, two temporary closures of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park—life there has seemed a bit quiet the last three weeks. So we caught up with
A new survey from the American Automobile Association lists Honolulu as the most expensive city in the United States for vacationers. The average price for meals and lodging for two adults per day, at least according to AAA’s 2008 Annual Vacation Costs Survey? $673. That’s more than second place New York City, which AAA estimates
Longtime Honolulu-based Hawaiian fashion, gift and souvenir retailer Hilo Hattie was sold today to a California company. Hilo Hattie’s seven stores on Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big Island—as well as its online retail store—will continue business as usual. The 45-year-old company—and self-prolaimed “Store of Hawaii”—was purchased for an undisclosed sum by TOC Inc., which
Couldn’t make it to Kokua Festival last month? The entirety of festival co-founder and headliner Jack Johnson’s performance is now online at MSN Music’s IN CONCERT site. Free. The bad news? None of the much-buzzed-about set by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, nor any other acts are included. But you won’t have to endure long
The May/June 2008 issue of HAWAII Magazine features a story on cartoonist Robert Ripley’s fascination with our Islands. Ripley created Ripley’s Believe It or Not! —the strange-but-true trivia-filled newspaper cartoon series. And, reports writer Greg Daugherty, he visited Hawaii four or five times during his brief, illustrious life. The “believe it or not” Ripley nuggets
And now, today’s moment of zen. 24 actress Elisha Cuthbert was snapped frolicking in the waters off of Maui’s Wailea resort area on Monday with her boyfriend Dion Phaneuf. Phaneuf—whose bare-chested-ness we’ve included here, you know, for gender balance—is a defenseman for the National Hockey League’s Calgary Flames. Cuthbert was taking a perhaps much-needed break
You ask. We answer. We got a question from HAWAII reader Lisa Marie McCormick about road construction on the Queen Kaahumanu Highway on the Big Island. My husband and I come back each year for a week or three. We stay at our time share in Waikoloa and travel into Kailua-Kona early to dive. On
You ask. We answer. HAWAII Magazine reader David Sand had a question about announcing a marriage in Hawaiian. How do I write “I am pleased to announce the marriage of my daughter, (girl’s name), to (boy’s name)” in the Hawaiian language? Of course, we queried one of the best authorities we know on the matter:
It’s not official just yet. But Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann, a couple of corporate sponsors and a whole lot of volunteers donating and stringing flowers crafted the world’s longest lei yesterday at May Day festivities in Waikiki. The final length? 5,336 feet—or 56 feet over the mile-long goal the Mayor had set. The event was
