HAWAII Magazine’s 2012 Best of Hawaii issue is on sale now! This year, the annual feature’s 20 pages are packed with HAWAII Magazine staff picks on everything from our favorite Hawaii places, eats to activities and various fun items, ranging from intriguing objects to pursuits just too amusing to leave off the list. In previous […]
The StarChefs Rising Stars Revue, which showcases up-and-coming culinary talent across the country, will hold its first-ever Hawaii gala next week in Waikiki. The event, set for 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Tues., Dec. 4 at Halekulani, is a walk-around tasting. It will feature dishes from each 2012 Hawaii Rising Star Award recipient, as
The holding period for the 28th Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau surfing contest — the world’s longest-running big-wave invitational — begins on Sat., Dec. 1. The event’s opening ceremony is set for 3 p.m. on Thurs., Nov. 28 in Waimea Bay on Oahu’s North Shore. During the annual ceremony, top-notch surfers and members of
Maui’s Wailea Resort Association is gearing up for its inaugural Wailea Wine & Food Festival, which gets under way on Thurs. Dec. 6. The four-day fest will take place at the Four Seasons Resort Maui, Fairmont Kea Lani, Wailea Beach Marriott Resort, and the Grand Wailea. Each will showcase award-winning cuisine created by Wailea Resort
A new tour slated to start tomorrow aboard Battleship Missouri Memorial in Oahu’s Pearl Harbor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the feats of engineering that powered the “Mighty Mo.” During the Heart of the Missouri Tour, guides will take visitors through ship areas never before available including boiler, plotting and engine rooms. Visitors will be
Oprah Winfrey appears to be gearing up to get her upcountry Maui farm into the organics business. According to recent news reports, the media mogul’s Oprah’s Farm LLC recently filed several trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Oprah’s Organics.” Among its planned grocery products: frozen vegetables, soups, snack dips, salad dressings
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Memphis-based Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. this week announced that tickets will go on sale on Friday (Nov. 2) for the Elvis Presley Aloha from Hawaii 40th Anniversary Screening. According to a news release issued by the Elvis Presley Enterprises: “This experience will feature incredible re-mastered video projected on multiple screens with audio presented in Dolby
Plans are in the works for celebrity chef and restaurateur Nobuyuki “Nobu” Matsuhisa to open Nobu Lanai in mid-December at the Four Seasons Resort Lanai at Manele Bay. In a news release issued by the resort, Tom Roelens, general manager of Four Seasons Resorts Lanai, said: “As a leader in innovative Japanese cuisine, world-renowned Chef
The buzz started about a week ago when Deadline Hollywood, an online source for breaking news in the entertainment industry, posted an exclusive dispatch with this headline: “AMC’s ‘Mad Men’ Heads to Hawaii For Season Premiere.” The story reported that actors Jon Ham and Jessica Pare, who play husband and wife Don and Megan Draper
Blessed Marianne Cope, a member of the Roman Catholic Sisters of St. Francis who cared for Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) patients on Oahu and Molokai for three decades beginning in the late 1880s, will be named as a saint during a ceremony set for this Sunday (Oct. 21) at the Vatican in Rome. At the ceremony
The USS Missouri (BB-63) launched from Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York on this day (Jan. 29) 69 years ago. Among the ship’s historical highlights: Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur and representatives from 10 nations assembled on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945 to accept Imperial Japan’s formal, unconditional World
