It’s an epidemic specific to the Islands: men who wear aloha shirts five times too big for them. For decades, Hawaii’s men have been wearing aloha shirts, also referred to as Hawaiian shirts, for business and formal events, but experts finally have an official diagnosis for this set of the population who are literally […]
*This story was updated on Apr. 14, 2025. Each spring, the Edith Kanakaʻole Stadium on Hawaiʻi Island roars with exhilaration and pride as thousands of footsteps announce the arrival of hula’s most prestigious event. The same way that sports fans worship championship games during peak season, avid hula fans consider the Merrie Monarch Festival
These photos from the past few months couldn’t have been taken anywhere else, but Hawaii. This giant crab just casually caught off of Molokai. A photo posted by MolokaiGold (@fama_man) on Jan 24, 2016 at 2:06pm PST And the no big deal whatsoever look on this guy’s face. This Honolulu classroom screening
The Merrie Monarch Festival, held in Hilo, is both the world’s most prestigious hula competition and a cultural showcase of Native Hawaiian traditions and practices—a yearly institution watched around the world. The always sold-out tickets for the festival’s three competition days—beginning this Thursday, March 31 through Saturday April 2—have long since been doled out, but
Four thousand meters below sea level, scientists encountered what researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are calling the deepest dwelling octopus yet discovered. The octopod—a small, pigment-less looking thing just a few inches wide—was spotted while the remotely operated vehicle, Deep Discoverer, was collecting geological samples from the Pacific Ocean floor northeast
Like the Islands themselves, ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (the Hawaiian language) is a living, breathing part of the native culture. This reflection of the two, the symbiotic relationship between land and language, is displayed in details such as how many words and terms exist in Hawaiian for rain alone: more than 200. This breadth of rain names
A new study finds that Hawaii is close to paradise for the country’s female citizens. The Aloha State ranks 10th overall, according to findings by the personal-finance website WalletHub. Using two key dimensions—“Women’s Economic & Social Well-Being” and “Women’s Health Care & Safety”—in comparing all 50 states and the District of Columbia, the analysis factors
February 25, 2016 was a HUGE day for surfing (online that is). As the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational took off from Oahu’s Waimea Bay, fans who couldn’t get to the North Shore morning were glued to their computer screens trying to catch every epic ride, barrel, wipe out and heavy record-breaking
With all the buzz and hype circulating around The Eddie Big Wave Invitational, which currently is in its waiting period, we wanted to explain a few things about the Eddie and why it generates so much excitement. The surf contest commonly called the Eddie is super special, and with all the coverage surrounding Hawaii’s promising
If there’s one thing you watch today, watch this video of Don Ho making a grand entrance: the iconic singer being choppered into Waikiki in an open-air grass hut. It has to be the most Don Ho thing ever. The footage comes from “Singer presents…Hawaii-Ho!,” the very first color television special to be produced on
Man. Saves. Honu. This video uploaded to Facebook out of Hawaii shows a local resident, Sai Farrell, brave a rocky shoreline to help an overturned honu (the Hawaiian word for turtle) caught in a very precarious situation. You can’t see the honu right away until about halfway through when Farrell liberates the animal submerged between
We live the really good life here. In this year’s Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, an annually published report ranking the overall happiness of its residents across the U.S., Hawaii reclaims its title as the state with the happiest residents. This makes it the fifth time Hawaii leads this list since the study’s inception eight years ago,
