Molokai Ranch closed earlier this month, forcibly relocating Aloha Music Camp. For the last five years, the Hawaiian music, dance and culture camp convened each summer at Molokai Ranch’s isolated Kaupoa Beach Village. This year’s camp—scheduled for June 22-28—will move to the Big Island’s considerably less remote Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort. The camp suffered an […]
You ask. We answer. A couple of readers wrote, lamenting that they couldn’t attend Jack Johnson’s Kokua Festival shows in Waikiki this weekend. This is the fifth-annual go-round of Johnson’s music festival, happening this Saturday and Sunday at the Waikiki Shell. Johnson, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds headline, with Mason Jennings and Hawaii acts Paula
A small explosion at Kilauea’s summit jolted scientists this morning, while sulfur dioxide-laced fumes fueled another evacuation advisory for a community downwind. The explosion happened just before 4 a.m. (Hawaii time), sending faintly pink ash across the crater’s overlook. Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the ash appeared to be rock dust with no
The new issue of HAWAII Magazine features a story on Maui Brewing Co., a Lahaina-based artisanal brewery crafting Hawaii-inspired beers. Its brews have won international beer awards. Owner Garrett Marrero and brewmaster Tom Kerns use Hawaii-grown ingredients, when possible—fresh island-grown pineapple, Maui-made rum, Kauai lehua blossom honey. But since opening in 2005, Marrero has also
We ran into Michael Emerson, who plays Benjamin Linus on ABC’s hit TV series “Lost,” listening to jazz in Honolulu’s Chinatown district the other night. Nice guy—which makes you realize what an incredible actor he is. When he plays Linus—the series’ complicated is-he-or-isn’t-he-a-villain—he somehow manages to be both seriously sinister and as equable as a
Apparently, hell hath no fury like golfers unleashed on Maui with $10,000 in cash, a BMW Z4 and an LPGA tournament slot at stake. At least that’s what we thought while watching a preview of Golf Channel’s reality series “Big Break,” which premieres its 10th season Tuesday at 10 p.m., eastern time (6 p.m. Hawaii
The view of the plume resumes! Hawaii Volcanoes National Park reopened for business this morning. Tradewinds began carrying “vog” (or “volcanic smog”) away from visitor areas. The park had been closed for two days as winds kept fumes from Kilauea volcano—laced with high levels of noxious sulfur dioxide—lingering near the summit. It was the first
Hawaii has lost not just a legendary entertainer, but a respected cultural figure. A well-known Hawaiian music family has lost its much-loved matriarch. Winona Beamer passed away in her sleep this morning at her home on Maui, after a long illness. She was 84. Her sons are musicians Keola and Kapono Beamer—as a duo, best
An explosion at Kilauea summit’s Halemaumau crater vent Wednesday night blasted incandescent rock into the air and onto the crater’s rim, geologists said this afternoon. The second Halemaumau explosion in three weeks also enlarged the vent by 15 to 30 feet. (Click above photo to enlarge.) The new explosion occurred at 11:08 p.m. (Hawaii time)
If you were one of millions of television viewers watching American Idol last night, you know that contestant Jason Castro sang beloved Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s arrangement of “Over the Rainbow.” The contestants were supposed to sing songs that inspired them. The dreadlocked, typically mellow Castro called the song “really magical. He [Iz] really captured
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park remains closed. But residents living near Kilauea’s summit, for the most part, are still in their homes. Most Volcano-area residents reacted to yesterday’s Big Island Civil Defense evacuation advisory by staying put. Weather forecasters feared winds might move through their communities through Thursday, carrying high levels of noxious sulfur dioxide fumes
Hawaii County Civil Defense advised residents near the summit of Kilauea volcano to prepare for evacuation this morning, to avoid winds carrying noxious sulfur dioxide fumes their way. Civil Defense officials are reacting to a shift in tradewinds forecast for this morning. Southeast winds could blow high levels of sulfur dioxide fumes from eruptions at
