Hawaii’s top hula halau and competitive dance groups, featuring both women and men, from elsewhere are now focused on final rehearsals for the 49th annual Merrie Monarch Festival’s three-night competition, which will begin tomorrow night on the Big Island with the Miss Aloha Hula Competition. But before the world’s premier hula contest gets under way […]
Three Big Island coffee farms are ranked among the top 10 in the Roasters Guild of the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s annual Coffee of the Year international competition for 2012. All Kau area coffee farms, the Hawaii winners are: • The Rising Sun/Will and Grace Farms — farmers Will and Grace Tabios; • Rusty’s Hawaiian
Stunning woodwork artistry will be on display at the 20th annual Hawaii’s Woodshow, Na Laau o Hawaii, a statewide juried woodworking show, which opens on Sun., April 1 and runs through April 15 at the Honolulu Museum of Art School Gallery at Linekona. The show features only art pieces crafted predominately from Hawaii-grown woods. Endangered
Since 1824, a structure has been perched on the edge of Kilauea caldera to shelter visitors to the lava-strewn landscape. Volcano House started out as a grass house. Then, after for more than three decades of operation, the first wooden structure was built 1877. It came with a stone hearth dedicated to Pele that reportedly
The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary’s third and final volunteer-centered whale-spotting effort for the 2011-12 season, Ocean Count, is slated for Sat., March 31. Both Hawaii residents and visitors are invited to take part in the annual Ocean Count census. This weekend’s survey is slated for 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on the
Recently, we asked our HAWAII Magazine Facebook ohana about favorite Hawaii parks. The Islands boast seven National Park Service-managed parks, sites and monuments, 55 state parks and scores of county/city parks. The top pick in our Facebook poll: the Big Island’s Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. So, given our Facebook ohana’s enthusiasm for up-close looks at
We’ve counted the votes from our latest HAWAII Magazine Facebook Ohana poll question: Which Hawaii park is is your favorite? The top five vote-getters are on the pages ahead. Hawaii boasts seven National Park Service-managed parks, sites and monuments, 55 state parks, and scores of county/city parks. Your picks range from shoreline settings with strong
The calm, clear waters of Kealakekua Bay have been called one of the best spots for snorkeling and scuba diving in the main Hawaiian Islands. Situated roughly 12 miles south of Kailua-Kona on the Big Island’s sunny west side, the 315-acre bay is the island’s largest sheltered natural bay, and a protected marine-life conservation area.
Enjoy a good pau hana beer? The Big Island is the place to be this weekend. The 17th annual Kona Brewers Festival will be tapping up 70 types of ales and lagers to be served alongside both savory and sweet Island-style eats. The fest’s main event is slated for 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on
Celebrity chef Ludo Lefebvre’s LudoBites restaurant is an eatery with no permanent address. Over the last five years, the “pop-up” or “touring” restaurant has made its way around the Los Angeles area. Starting today, Hualalai and the Four Seasons Resort on the Big Island’s North Kona Coast will serve as the 12-day address for LudoBites
After a stretch of nearly three decades punctuated by close calls with destruction-by-lava, the last residence in the Big Island’s Royal Gardens subdivision was consumed by Kilauea volcano’s flow over the weekend. The subdivision’s last resident, Jack Thompson, and a videographer were evacuated from the area by helicopter on Friday. When Thomspon returned the next
Next month, popular Hawaii singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, along with Oahu-based musician friends Paula Fuga and John Cruz, will stage seven all-acoustic shows in the Islands. The tour is in support of an album slated for release on April 17, Jack Johnson and Friends — Best of Kokua Festival. For information about pre-ordering the album, click
