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 […]
Honolulu’s award-winning public transit service, TheBus, turned 40 years old this week. If you’ve spent any of your Hawaii time on Oahu in the last four decades, either as a resident or visitor, chances are good you’ve also spent some of that time on TheBus. Fact is, TheBus has become such an omnipresent, reliable and
Oahu’s popular Diamond Head Crater Summit Trail returned to regular visiting hours this past weekend after completion of a three-month trail repair project. The trail is once again open to hikers from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, following the end of nearly $1 million in improvements to sections of the trail necessitated by heavy
“Air raid Pearl Harbor. This is no drill.” Those were the first words broadcast from the Ford Island Field Control Tower at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, as hundreds of Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes attacked the Oahu naval base. For nearly seven decades, the historic landmark has stood guard
On a warm winter evening last month, more than 1,000 hungry Honoluluans converged in a small parking lot near Ala Moana Center to sample some of the city’s best food truck cuisine. The event, dubbed Eat The Street, wound up a wildly successful first-time-for-Honolulu venture, thanks, in part, to social media sites like Twitter and
Congratulations to Lisa Pruszewski of Chicago, Illinois. And get ready for some warm weather! Lisa was the big winner of our 2011 Honolulu Festival Oahu Vacation Getaway contest. Her prize? • Two round-trip tickets on Hawaiian Airlines to Oahu. • A four-night stay at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. • Two tickets to
Trust us. You haven’t truly sampled everything Hawaii residents love to eat until you’ve had a Spam musubi. It’s the perfectly portable Hawaii snack—a slice of fried Spam over a compacted block of sticky white rice, and all of it wrapped with a ribbon of dried nori (seaweed). There are dozens of versions of this
Tucked in the back of lush Manoa Valley on Oahu is the only university-run botanical garden in the United States located in a tropical rainforest. The Lyon Arboretum, founded in 1918, occupies 200 acres of the Manoa watershed at the base of the majestic Koolau mountain range. A botanical garden and research facility, the arboretum—named
Think you can squeeze in a week’s vacation in Hawaii between March and December? A new Continental Airlines promotion is touting round-trip airfare deals to Oahu and Maui from 15 U.S. Mainland cities, including New York, Chicago and Dallas. The fare deals, announced this week, are for travel to Kahului, Maui, and Honolulu, Oahu. Roundtrip
The Punahou School Carnival returns this weekend for its 79th year. Why get so excited about a high school carnival, you might ask, even if the school in question is President Barack Obama’s former alma mater? Well, for one thing, this granddaddy of Hawaii high school carnivals is more than just food, games, rides and
The return of the NFL Pro Bowl to Hawaii after a year away scored the biggest TV audience for the all-star game since 2000. According to Nielsen TV ratings, the 2011 Pro Bowl, broadcast on the FOX Network, drew 12.4 million viewers, an uptick of 37 percent from the game’s 2010 ratings. After hosting the
So you’re on Oahu, on vacation, and indulging in our incredibly diverse and delicious local dining scene. Chicken katsu. Macaroni salad. Hawaiian plate lunches (with laulau, kalua pig, lomi salmon, poi, haupia, etc.). Ahi and tako poke. Multiple stops at the garlic shrimp trucks. Malassadas. Lunchwagons. Want to burn some calories—so you can keep eating
