As many of you will read in the new July/August 2009 issue of HAWAII Magazine, Jean-Charles Cuillandre is an astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope-—one of the dozen observatories taking advantage of the cloudless skies above the 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea, on Hawaii’s Big Island. Cuillandre helped build a 340-megapixel camera, allowing the observatory to […]
King Kamehameha Day was yesterday—June 11. It was a state holiday. Hawaiian royal societies held tradition-steeped ceremonies in the king’s honor. Schools were closed. State workers had the day off. Street parking was free. So why continue celebrating the holiday into the weekend? Well, we do love a good Saturday morning parade. The annual King
There were no multi-multi-category award winners at last night’s Na Hoku Hanohano Awards a la Hoku Zuttermeister’s six Hoku in 2008 or Kealii Reichel’s seven in 2004. No single artist walking out the doors of the Sheraton Waikiki’s Hawaii Ballroom with a handful of trophies. But that’s what made victory all the more sweeter for
You ask. We answer. HAWAII Magazine reader Debbie Eppelheimer of Ontario, California writes: My husband and I have traveled to Hawaii every year for several years now. We have fallen in love with the Hawaiian culture and language. Do you know where we can find Hawaiian language classes in Southern California? Unfortunately Debbie, finding some
The photos you see here nearly wound up in a Honolulu landfill. Along with 800 other turn-of-the-20th-century glass plate photos of the Kingdom of Hawaii taken by Bertram Gabriel Bellinghausen, they were marked for trash collectors by a Honolulu private school in 1964 before someone wisely saved them. Bellinghausen was a young Marianist brother from
The Maui Writers Conference is now the Hawaii Writers Conference, and it’s bringing in Norah Jones for a private concert. Don’t worry. The annual week-long conference will still host its usual handful of New York Times bestselling authors, Academy Award-winning screenwriters and big time agents, editors and publishers, too. Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jones will be on
Monday evening marks the return of the annual Lantern Floating Hawaii ceremony—one of Hawaii’s most visually breathtaking and poignant events. We attended last year’s event, at Honolulu’s Ala Moana Beach Park—along with 40,000 Hawaii residents and visitors. As you can see below in a slideshow of photos we took, the sunset ceremony is a sight
You ask. We answer. HAWAII Magazine reader Patricia Renze from New York, NY, writes: What’s the status of the International Market Place renovations in Waikiki? I have spent many a happy day walking around and talking with all of the vendors. I hope the project has been shelved, as I love the Market Place just
The June-July issue of Food Network Magazine recently hailed the loco moco at Hukilau Cafe in Laie, Oahu, as the best in Hawaii. Not the best loco moco, as one might rightly expect. But the best burger in Hawaii. “A loco moco is Hawaii’s take on a burger,” writes Food Network Magazine of the Hawaii
If you’re on Oahu, consider your summer reading list and backyard barbecue soundtrack complete. The Hawaii Book & Music Festival is happening Saturday and Sunday in Honolulu. Looking for a superabundance of literature and music created and published here in Hawaii, all in one location? We’d be hard pressed to think of a better place
You ask. We answer. We got an e-mail from HAWAII Magazine reader Candice Sanders, asking for our help in identifying a Hawaiian song: I am looking for the words and music to a Hawaiian song that is often sung at the end of concerts and also at the end of the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. I’ve
Where’s your favorite place to stay on Kauai? The best place for shopping on Maui? Your favorite Hawaii spa to get away from it all? Got a favorite town on the Big Island? We ask these questions—and many more—on the ballot for our annual Best of Hawaii feature. Results will be featured in the upcoming
