In the May/June 2011 issue of HAWAII Magazine, we’re taking readers, in words and photos, to some Hawaii natural wonders it’s likely they haven’t had a chance to see up-close-and-personal. There are dozens of breathtaking places throughout the Islands that even lifelong residents have never experienced first-hand. The cover feature “10 Hawaii Places You Haven’t […]
On the Big Island this weekend and consider yourself a coffee connoisseur? The Kau Coffee Festival is back for a third annual celebration of the southeast Big Island district’s increasingly world famous and award-winning java, May 14 and 15. Among the featured Kau area growers at the fest will be Kailiawa Farm, which earlier this
The sixth annual Big Island Film Festival, kicks off Wed., May 11 with a menu of 63 independent films, including 10 filmed here in Hawaii. Altogether, films from seven countries will be represented at the five-day festival, based at the Mauna Lani Resort on the South Kohala Coast. Celebrity honorees with Hawaii roots will include
A one-night film festival, showcasing six short films by Hawaii directors, is slated for Fri., May 6 at Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu’s downtown area. The First Friday Maoli Film Festival will include two official Sundance Film Festival selections. In January, Ty Sanga’s Stones, which is set in ancient Hawaii, became the first all-Hawaiian language
The Big Island’s luxe Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, which sustained tsunami-fueled damages and closed last month will reopen for guests this Sat., April 30. Flooding damaged 12 of the oceanfront resort’s 243 rooms, pushed sand from its beach father inland, jumbled landscaping and killed stretches of the South Kohala-area resort’s grass, said Four Seasons spokesman
Hawaii’s hula halau (dancing groups) and competitive dancers from elsewhere are now making their way to Hilo to take part in the 48th annual Merrie Monarch Festival’s three-night competition, which will begin Thurs., April 28 with the Miss Aloha Hula Competition. But before the world’s premier hula contest gets under way, the weeklong Merrie Monarch
This week, as we celebrate Earth Day, green-minded voluntourism opportunities in Hawaii, ranging from beach cleanups to native plant restoration efforts, are in the works. By volunteering for even a few hours with endeavors aimed at preserving paradise, you can gain a deeper appreciation of Hawaii’s awe-inspiring yet fragile environment. Environmental voluntourism offers vacationing visitors
The cover feature of HAWAII Magazine’s March/April issue is our 2011 Now List , a.k.a. our annual “20 Things We Love About Hawaii … Right Now” list. Among the collection of things we’re currently enamored of here in the Islands, you’ll find our favorite handmade, fresh-ingredient-fused Hawaiian paleta to cool down with on a hot
There’s still much talk swirling in the national and international media about just how much of Hawaii is really open for business in the wake of last Friday’s tsunami-generated ocean surges, spawned by the Japan earthquake. So much talk, in fact, that Hawaii tourism officials and Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie took to issuing multiple media
It’s over … for now. Kilauea volcano’s most recent fissure eruption, which last week sent lava spatter up to 160 feet in the air from a 1.4-mile crack in the earth, has ended indefinitely. The breakout Kamoamoa fissure, near Puu Oo crater on the Kilauea summit’s east rift zone, paused last Wednesday evening after five
Picture yourself at a beachside barbecue, on the lawn at aptly named Paradise Cove, Oahu. As the sun sets through the waving palms, you wander from food tent to food tent—and realize this is not just any barbecue. There’s roast duck with red wine teriyaki sauce. A seafood pouch with shrimp, clams, mahimahi and honshimeiji
Geologists at the Big Island’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory yesterday released dramatic video of last weekend’s collapse of the Puu Oo crater floor on Kilauea volcano. The time-lapse video below, captured over 19 hours on Saturday, shows the Puu Oo crater floor dropping more than 377 feet. As the floor of the crater gives way, fiery
