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Culture, Travel Tips

Explore the remote atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on Google Street View

Most of us will never get a chance to visit the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, a massive, closed-to-the-public marine and wildlife conservation area that encompasses much of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands beyond Kauai. Thanks to Google Street View’s Trekker site, however, you can now virtually stroll among the thousands of seabirds nesting on Tern Island or

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Culture, Oʻahu

Leiala Cook: 5 things I love about pau riding

Each September, the Aloha Festivals cultural celebration honors a time in our Islands’ history when the Hawaiian culture’s monarchy, customs and traditions were part of the fabric of everyday life. The fests’ spectrum of events includes royal court investitures, ceremonies marked by hula and chant, and a street-closing Waikiki hoolaulea (celebration). The most beloved of these is arguably the Aloha

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Culture, Oʻahu

Remembering Gump’s treasure house of the Pacific

On February 19, 1929, Hawaii’s first neon sign, “Gump’s,” flicked on, announcing the opening of the esteemed San Francisco retailer’s Waikiki store. Its location at the corner of Kalakaua Avenue and Lewers Street, across from the elegant Royal Hawaiian, was ideal. Well-heeled guests of the hotel, which had opened two years earlier, just had to walk

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Culture

See Hawaii through the eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams

The painter Georgia O’Keeffe and the photographer Ansel Adams remain, nearly three decades after their passings, quintessential modern artists of the American West, both celebrated for distinct methods of capturing the essence of the natural world in their work. What is not as widely known, even among art authorities, is that, between 1939 and 1958,

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Culture, Food

Mark Suiso: 5 things I love about mango season in Hawaii

If every plant species needs a superhero, the ever-benevolent warrior for Hawaii-grown mangoes is surely Mark Suiso. When it comes to Hawaii’s favorite chilled fruit for a warm summer day, the owner of Makaha Mangoes is on a threefold mission: Plant new mango trees; return older, neglected trees to productivity; and, in true superhero form, extend

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Culture

Smithsonian to feature Hawaiian culture at annual Folklife Festival

This summer, the language, dance, and music of Hawaii joins the lineup of international cultural events, demonstrations and displays at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, happening June 26-30 and July 3-7 in Washington D.C. Founded in 1967, the two-week exhibition celebrates the world’s multitude of living cultures and their rich heritages. Each summer, the fest

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Culture, Oʻahu

Clark Little: 5 things I love about shooting North Shore surf

Clark Little never dreamed his lifelong passion for riding North Shore Oahu surf would ignite an award-winning career in wave photography. In the late 1990s a self-described “crazy surfing shore-break man,” Little would charge into massive, board-sucking shore-break surf, regularly get thrown onto the sand, and risk the breaking of bones or worse. It was

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