The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument — a 140,000 square mile conservation area comprising 10 islands and atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — has been designated as a United Nations World Heritage site. With the designation from the U.N.’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the area becomes one of only 26 “mixed” World Heritage […]
Yesterday, in the posh Orchid Suite of Waikiki’s Halekulani hotel, a select group of Hawaii media were treated to French press coffee, popovers and a sneak preview of the pilot episode of the newly reborn Hawaii Five-0, debuting on CBS this fall. Our verdict: Oh Yeah! The contemporary cinematography brought a whole new dimension to
The brand new redux of Hawaii Five-0 has a premiere date—Sept. 20 at 10 p.m., Eastern time (9 p.m., Hawaii time), in a prime primetime spot after the CBS network’s high-rated block of Monday night comedies. McGarrett and Danno after How I Met Your Mother and Two And A Half Men? Sure, we’ll take it.
CBS this week released an extended trailer for its fall season redux of the classic Island-filmed TV crime drama Hawaii Five-0. Filming of the initial episodes of the new Five-0 has already begun on Oahu. Our take on the new 3 minute, 46 second clip? After watching it a handful of times, we dug it
HAWAII magazine reader Anthony Maggiore e-mailed us in pursuit of his favorite Hawaiian flower: It seems that lei-supplying companies in Hawaii will not ship plumeria lei to the east coast for fear of the fragile blossoms being damaged before delivery. What that means is that many people are missing out on these lovely flowers that
When gathering the best ingredients for making a meal you can’t beat buying local. And no matter where you are in the world, farmers markets are a great place to start looking. In Hawaii, dozens of weekly farmers markets have sprung up in communities statewide in recent years making it convenient to skip a trip
After months of behind the scenes pre-production work, the fourth film in Disney’s blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides, finally began filming last week in Hawaii. But unlike most Hollywood productions, which keep plot details and photos from the set shrouded in secrecy until just before release, Walt Disney Pictures and producer
It’s been a beautiful couple of days on Maui, with the promise of a splendid evening under the stars to come. That’s good because two of the Maui Film Festival’s major events are outdoors this evening, both the Taste of Wailea (in which Maui restaurants show their stuff in a glittering gala) and Celestial Cinema,
Hawaii’s early Polynesian settlers were among the first people to take to the ocean to master the art of he‘e nalu or “wave-sliding.” The sport the world now recognizes as surfing was especially popular with Hawaiian royalty, or alii. Their first plank boards were shaped from trees. The larger the waves you surfed, the more
Live Hawaiian music. Great local food. A gorgeous Waikiki sunset. Hawaiian monk seals after dark. All of the expected ingredients should be in place for the Waikiki Aquarium’s annual summer concert series Ke Kani O Ke Kai—Hawaiian for “the sound of the ocean.” The 13th summer season of evening concerts mixed with nighttime tours of
Congratulations! It’s a boy! Now he needs a name. Oahu’s Sea Life Park welcomed a new addition to its marine life family on Feb. 27—a healthy male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin born to longtime Dolphin Cove residents Laka and Kaleo. The growing young ‘un will finally get his public debut at the park on June 26.
It’s the most colorful moment of Kamehameha Day. Every June 11, Hawaii celebrates the first king of its united island kingdom, King Kamehameha I. King Kamehameha Day is a holiday for most of the people in the state, but not the hardworking HAWAII Magazine staff. Our staff photographer, David Croxford, was on hand to capture
