Entrance fees at three Hawaii national parks will be waived for a nine-day stretch, starting tomorrow, to celebrate National Park Week. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park, both on the Big Island, and Maui’s Haleakala National Park will waive the fees from Sat., April 21 through Sun., April 29. The […]
The saying goes, “Know your farmer. Know your food.” If you’re on the Valley Isle on this Saturday (April 7), one of the best places to simultaneously accomplish both is the Maui County Agricultural Festival. The free annual fest, held against the majestic backdrop of the West Maui Mountains at Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapu,
The 20th annual Celebration of the Arts Festival, which invites attendees to experience “Hawaiian heart and soul,” is slated to get under way on Fri., April 6 at the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua on Maui’s northwest shoreline. Opening ceremonies for the two-day event will include traditional oli (chants) from Hawaiian practitioners while music and hula will be
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
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
West Maui will celebrate the annual migration of humpback whales to Hawaii waters at this weekend’s Lahaina Whale and Ocean Arts Festival. The annual tribute to our favorite tail-slapping, 45-ton visitor is slated for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and on Sun., March 11 in Lahaina’s historic Banyan Tree Park. Artists will display marine-themed
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
Artist Georgia O’Keeffe spent three months in Hawaii during 1939 while on assignment for the Dole Pineapple Co. She was tasked with producing two paintings for a national advertising campaign. While in the Islands, O’Keeffe produced 20 paintings of tropical plants, verdant landscapes and the blue-green sea. During a two-week stay on Maui, 12-year-old Patricia
World Whale Day, the biggest event of the six-month 2011- 2012 Maui Whale Festival, is slated for Sat., Feb. 18 in Kihei. The daylong celebration will begin with Maui’s Parade of Whales, along South Kihei Road, from 9 a.m, to 10 a.m. It will be followed by a free celebration at oceanside Kalama Park. (Last year’s
Haliimaile. Makawao. Olinda. Ulupalakua, Keokea, Pukalani. The turnoff signs for the half dozen or so towns that stretch across the cool, green and serene belt of pastures, farms and forests of Upcountry Maui begin to appear one by one as you ascend past the 1,000-foot elevation marker sign on busy Haleakala Highway. In the January/February
Hawaiian Airlines and New-York based JetBlue Airways this week announced a partnership agreement that will aims to ease travel to the Islands from the East Coast. Starting this week, customers will be able to purchase single tickets combining travel on both Hawaiian and JetBlue, allowing for “seamless” travel between the carriers’ networks, according to a
In an effort to reduce litter and threats to marine life, the Big Island is gearing up for a ban on plastic shopping bags. The green-minded move follows plastic-bag bans already in effect on Maui, Kauai, Molokai and Lanai. Big Island Mayor Billy Kenoi signed a bill this week that will eventually ban stores from
