The clock is ticking on your chance to win an airfare, hotel and ticket package for you and a friend to attend the 21st annual Honolulu Festival! The festival is one of the state’s longest-running and premier annual cultural celebrations showcasing talent from around the Pacific Rim. HAWAII Magazine’s 2015 Honolulu Festival Oahu Flyaway includes […]
Keeping Hawaiian music and hula dynamic in a way that honors the stories and traditions of the past is the life-work of Robert Cazimero. “My grandfather said to me many years ago, it would be our generation that wants to keep it alive, the next generation who wouldn’t want it, and the one following who
It will be a blast from the past when the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum opens today in Honolulu. Its Long Gallery has been transformed to house a new temporary exhibit chronicling Hawaii’s changes since the museum’s founding in 1889. The retrospective “Change: 125 Years Through the Eyes of the Bishop Museum” is the culmination of
What’s pink and white and read all over? Posters advertising the annual springtime extravaganza that is the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.! But what does that have to do with Hawaii, you ask? Hawaii Island-based illustrative artist Jing Jing Tsong’s original artwork was chosen to represent the upcoming 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival.
Hula O Na Keiki, one of the state’s premier annual children’s solo hula competitions, happens this weekend, Nov. 14 to 16, at the Kaanapali Beach Hotel on Maui. Twenty-three keiki (children) ages 5-17, representing eight hulau (hula troupes) from Maui, Oahu, Hawaii Island, California and Nevada, will compete in this year’s 24th annual contest as
Former Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink is among this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, announced earlier this week by President Barack Obama. The medal recognizes individuals for their contributions to United States culture and national interests, and is the highest civilian honor awarded in the U.S. President Obama revealed this year’s 19
We love the Honolulu Museum of Art. We love the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. But should you find yourself on Oahu, short on cash and in need of an injection of arts and culture, you’ll find great artworks by several dozen noted Hawaii artists on the University of Hawaii’s Manoa Valley campus in Honolulu. More
If you didn’t know who she was, you would think Carissa Moore was just another surfer girl—white bikini top under a black tank, rocking a trucker hat, greeting regulars at her favorite Oahu south shore surf break, Kewalo’s. But Moore is not just another surfer. The smiley Honolulu resident is the reigning two-time Association of
The 34th annual Hawaii International Film Festival begins today on Oahu and runs through Nov. 16 with additional screenings on Hawaii Island and Kauai. Over the years, the festival has earned an especially solid reputation for its programming of films from Hawaii, Asia and the Pacific region. This year’s packed schedule of nearly 200 films
HAWAII Magazine’s 2014 “Best of Hawaii” issue is on-sale nationwide now! The perennially popular guide features our annual collection of stuff that makes our Islands great, selected by our editorial team. The September/October “Best of” issue is chock-full of staff-curated standouts, highlighting the best of the best throughout the state. From the “Best Edible Jewels,”
Augusta-Helen “Aunty Gussie” Bento finds beauty and quilting patterns everywhere. Upon encountering a beautiful flower or leaf, she’ll often incorporate it into a kapa kuiki (Hawaiian quilt) in progress or make a pattern of it for a later project. “You can go through life saying the sun is too hot,” she says. “But you’re not
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM)—a cluster of waters and reefs surrounding islands south and west of the main Hawaiian Island chain—will now protect an area six times its original size, making it the largest marine reserve in the world. On Sept. 25, President Barack Obama signed a proclamation to expand the existing
