Gung Hee Fat Choy! Be happy and prosperous!Today is the first day of the Chinese year 4705. Many of the community celebrations—lion dances, lighting firecrackers, giving of lai see (money offerings)—that go along with this most important of Chinese holidays happened last weekend. But today’s second new moon after the winter solstice marks the actual start of […]
Players and cheerleaders in town for Sunday’s NFL Pro Bowl turned up in downtown Honolulu today for the game week’s official kick-off celebration.They were in Bishop Square—next door to HAWAII Magazine’s offices—posing for pictures and signing autographs for a thousand-strong crowd of fans and the just plain curious. One of the latter—oddly fascinated by a
You don’t have to be in New Orleans or Rio de Janeiro to celebrate Mardi Gras. Hawaii has its own spin on the “Fat Tuesday” street carnivals that both cities are famous for right here in downtown Honolulu’s Chinatown Arts District.From 6 to 10 p.m. tonight, Nuuanu Avenuefills with samba dancers, Brazilian percussion groups and New
Dave Matthews will play live in Hawaii for the first time at Jack Johnson’s annual Kokua Festival benefit concerts on April 19th and 20th.The leader of multi-million-selling jam band extraordinaire Dave Matthews Band will play an acoustic set with sometime musical partner, guitarist Tim Reynolds, at the fifth annual go-round of Johnson’s environmental awareness concerts.
The end of another Super Bowl means two things to Hawaii NFL fans: a Monday morning date at the gym to drop Super Bowl party weight before it sticks, and Pro Bowl Week in Honolulu.Players from the AFC and NFC leagues begin arriving today for practices and citywide events that end with next Sunday’s annual NFL
If you’re on Oahu, it’s multicultural party time. Get yourself to downtown Honolulu’s Chinatown Arts District today. It’s First Friday, with all the galleries open, bars packed, the young and trendy packing the sidewalks, and serious revelry. Not enough? Tonight’s also the official Chinese New Years street party. There will be firecrackers and lion dancers up
Indiana Jones was filmed in the “Peruvian” jungle of Kauai. Ben Stiller and Jack Black visited for the filming of their flick Tropic Thunder (Kauai), Knocked Up director Judd Apatow’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Oahu) was set at Turtle Bay Resort, and two of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (Maui/Molokai/Kauai) made use of Hawaii’s gorgeous coastline. Godzilla has destroyed Waikiki Beach, and Katniss
The Hawaii Superferry’s low passenger counts are threatening its ability to continue its sole Oahu-Maui route.Pacific Business News reported today that attorneys for the embattled inter-island ferry service considered the situation an “emergency,” in a December letter submitted to the state Public Utilities Commission. The letter requested the PUC extend the Superferry’s current $39 one-way promotional
Folks who love Waikiki’s Royal Hawaiian Hotel already know that it will close June 1 for extensive renovations.But before the “Pink Palace of the Pacific” shutters its doors for seven months, it’s inviting its fans to take a sentimental journey. Book the “A Hui Hou … Until We Meet Again” package —offered now through May 31.
Break out the sparking wine (or at least a ginger ale). Cue “Tiny Bubbles” on the stereo. Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman has declared today “Don Ho Day.”A documentary of his life, “Don Ho Remembered,” premieres on Honolulu television station KGMB-9 at 8 p.m., Jan. 22. (An encore will be aired at 8 p.m., Jan. 28)There’s
The University of Hawaii Warrior football team has a new head coach. Warriors defensive coordinator Greg McMackinformally accepted the promotion this morning at a news conference at the campus’s Stan Sheriff Center.McMackin seems like a good choice for the job.Among his supporters for the job were former UH football coach June Jones, assistant coaches Jeff Reinebold and
I’m sitting in the most elegant and historic space in Waikiki—the Veranda at the Moana Surfrider. Built in 1901, this spacious lanai wraps round the fabled Banyan Court in the hotel’s center. It’s a perfect January afternoon, sunny, not too warm, not too cold. I’m here for an elegant meal I don’t usually eat—afternoon tea. Now
