Not one but two HAWAII Magazine readers asked us about this drink. Wrote one: When in the airport in Honolulu, I had a drink called a Lava Flow while waiting to go to Kona. Can you share the recipe? You ask, we answer. We have two recipes. The Lava Flow at the airport […]
It’s so new that it hasn’t even had its grand opening yet, and its signage isn’t all in place. On the other hand, the Koa Kea Hotel & Resort harkens back to the old days on Kaua‘i, and has the relaxed, intimate feel of the ’60s resort it replaced. The new Koa Kea is built
Paia, that hip little beach town on Maui’s north shore, has a lot going for it. It’s the windsurfing capital of the world, with nearby Hookipa Beach Park. Its plantation-era buildings now house a dozen reasonably priced restaurants, some 40 locally owned surf shops, boutiques, antique stores, jewelry shops, coffee shops and gelaterias. It even
Four massive cranes now tower over the palm trees at the 21-acre West O‘ahu site of the new Disney Vacation Club Resort Hawaii. Concrete’s been poured for the foundations. But building 350 hotel rooms and 480 multi-bedroom vacation “villas”—not to mention spas, pools, restaurants, banquet spaces and kids clubs—takes time. At the moment, there’s just
The Ilikai has been generating its own drama of late: foreclosures, closings, reopenings. But it became an icon in 1968 when a brand new TV cop drama named Hawaii Five-O used it as part of its title sequence. Jack Lord was still an obscure TV actor when, as Det. Steve McGarrett, he stood on Ilikai’s
HAWAII Magazine reader Patricia Hanson emailed us: Is there a source of the Island vocabulary, available to persons on the Mainland? I’m interested, and, eager to learn. You ask. We answer. We can help, Patricia. There are formal online courses in the Hawaiian language (see here). If, however, you’re looking for something more immediate, we’ve
Last month, we reported that the original plans to renovate Waikiki’s International Market Place had been put on hold and the property would be staying the same, for now. That was true as far as it went. However, we have since learned that the landowner, Queen Emma Land Co., has requested new proposals from developers—not
The lobby of the Four Seasons Maui looks like Rodeo Drive this weekend. Tori Spelling was having breakfast by the pool with husband Dean McDermot, showing a remarkable amount of cleavage. Eddie Murphy was shadowboxing his way along the beach path. Dax Shepard is in the jacuzzi with Kristen Bell. Everyone around the pool is
HAWAII Magazine reader Lenore Larbig of Sacramento, Calif., emailed us: Can you tell me if Dog the Bounty Hunter is for real and has an office in Waikiki? I like to watch his show on A&E because it gives me glimpses of Oahu and sometimes the other islands. Dog’s office looks, to me, that it
At the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua, Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ambassadors of the Environment program offers a number of adventures, all with an ecological point, including one we found irresistible: Underwater Photography. The center supplies you with snorkeling gear, an underwater digital camera and something even more useful, knowledge of what you are going see, an orientation that emphasizes
Honolulu’s Hawaii Theatre recently signed a 10-year lease renewal with chef Glenn Chu’s Indigo Restaurant. This is a big deal. Why? The two were prime movers in the restoration of Honolulu’s Chinatown and the creation of the Chinatown Arts District. An nonprofit organization saved the 1922 Hawaii Theatre from demolition and painstakingly restored it to
As many of you will read in the new July/August 2009 issue of HAWAII Magazine, Jean-Charles Cuillandre is an astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope-—one of the dozen observatories taking advantage of the cloudless skies above the 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea, on Hawaii’s Big Island. Cuillandre helped build a 340-megapixel camera, allowing the observatory to
