Recordings by Maui kumu hula/musician/vocalist Uluwehi Guerrero and Grammy-nominated traditional Hawaiian music group Hookena share the lead for most nominations for the 33rd annual Na Hoku Hanohano music awards. Guerrero and Hookena have seven nominations each on the 2010 Na Hoku ballot, released today. Guerrero’s Uluwehi Sings Na Mele Hula Aloha album received Na Hoku […]
For our upcoming May/June 2010 issue of HAWAII Magazine, editor John Heckathorn met up with longtime Waikiki hula dancer Kanoe Miller. Miller may very well be the most photographed Hawaii hula dancer in history. Six nights a week for the last 33 years, Miller has been making treasured Hawaii memories for the thousands of Waikiki
HAWAII Magazine reader Don Buckley e-mailed us with a question about Hollywood’s most recent sojourns to our Islands for filmmaking: Judging by stories on HAWAII Magazine’s website, a lot of major film and television series productions are filming in Hawaii right now. Everyone knows about “Lost.” But could you provide a list of every production
See that crowd in the above photo? That’s where we’ll be this evening—at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Chinatown Block Party, just a couple of blocks from HAWAII Magazine’s downtown Honolulu offices. A St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Chinatown? And the state’s largest St. Patrick’s Day party at that? Better believe it. Each March 17,
Do we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Hawaii? The question should be … Why wouldn’t we? We live in a place that’s practically green the whole year ‘round, our own tropical version of an Emerald Isle. The state’s biggest St. Paddy’s Day celebration is always at Murphy’s Bar & Grill in downtown Honolulu. Every March
The cast of ABC’s hit comedy Modern Family has been in Hawaii all this week filming the series’ first season finale. They’ve been holed up at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, which is conveniently serving as both their home-away-from-home and workplace for the Hawaii shoot. (Yeah, we’re all pretty jealous of them, too.
Last night, the Hawaii International Film Festival threw its annual gala Oscar Night America Party at Waikiki’s Royal Hawaiian Hotel. There, amid all the folks dressed in their Oscar best, we ran into Lost actor Daniel Dae Kim. Kim introduced us to Peter Lenkov, executive producer of CSI: New York, who is now also executive
A week ago, we gave anxious HawaiiMagazine.com readers the premiere date of a filmed-in-Hawaii episode of Food Network’s popular Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. The network brass happily gave us the date and time of the first airing: April 5 at 10 p.m. EST. But when we asked for some follow-up about the Hawaii episode, they
Hawaii is coming to the Bay Area all this month! Live in the San Francisco area? You’ll get to experience a taste of the Islands right in your backyard in March with a series of events showcasing the music, dance, food and culture of Hawaii. Stop by to check one of them out and you
Hawaii has known for a year that the National Football League’s Pro Bowl would be returning to Oahu’s Aloha Stadium in 2011. Now we have a date: Jan. 30 … a week before the Super Bowl, once again. The NFL and Hawaii Tourism Authority announced the 2011 Pro Bowl date on Tuesday, finally quieting speculation
HawaiiMagazine.com readers Dan and Cynthia from Tennessee are the latest of several readers to e-mail us with a similar question about a filmed-in-Hawaii episode of one of Food Network’s most-popular programs: When will Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” Hawaii episode be shown on TV? My wife and I really want to watch it so
Here she is, matey! The Black Pearl. The only lead star in Walt Disney Pictures’ fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film likely working without a multi-million-dollar paycheck quietly cruised into Hawaii waters last week to await her next big-screen close-up in 2011. Think she’s looking a bit worse for wear in our photo above? The
