The first teaser trailer has been released for “Moana,” Disney’s much anticipated new animated musical, especially on this side of the Pacific Ocean where Honolulu’s own Aulii Cravalho lends her voice and musical stylings to the title character. The film also features another Hawaii favorite, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who spent much of his youth […]
Did you know that Hawaiians meticulously fashioned traditional clothing, and even bedding from the white inner bark of the wauke, or paper mulberry tree? Kapa is the Hawaiian word for barkcloth, and more commonly known as “tapa.” It’s made by beating the bark until it is smooth and soft and then texturing it and dying
Everyone’s Honolulu commute is getting a bit more presidential. A new mural of President Barack Obama has popped up in the city’s urban center with a message to celebrate Hawaii and the country’s multiethnic fabric and to spread aloha across people’s differences in this era. Hawaiian artist Kamea Hadar (pictured below) just completed and unveiled
Hear that? It’s the sweet, melodious sounds of a HAWAIʻI Magazine giveaway! We’re awarding one lucky winner with a Honolulu summer vacation prize package to attend the Ukulele Festival from July 14 to 18, 2016. Lounging under palm trees to the sounds of the Islands’ most iconic instrument, the ukulele? Doesn’t get much better than
You’ve never seen the Hawaiian Islands like this before. Honolulu-based photographer and graphic designer Petey Ulatan works his digital photo manipulation magic on some of Hawaii’s most scenic coastlines, giving a mesmerizing and warped perspective to some of our most familiar coastlines. The series, which he consistently shares on his Instagram, feature cityscapes from around
Whether or not you were one of the thousands who made it out to Waimea for this year’s 31st annual Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, now is your chance to relive all the excitement from this past February when the bay called the day. Oahu’s preeminent big wave surf photographer, Zak
These businesses are taking Hawaii-grown cacao from bean to bar and, in some cases, even grow the chocolate on-site. HAWAII ISLAND Big Island Chocolate Co.The small family farm south of Hilo has about 300 trees and makes chocolate on-site for sale at area farmers markets. (808) 966-6693, bigislandchocolatecompany.com. Hawaiian Crown Plantation and Chocolate FactoryLook for its
“May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii.” In celebration of the beautiful art of lei making across the Islands, no matter what day May 1 coincides with, festivities will take place. This year, May Day falls on a Sunday making way for a variety of events leading up to it throughout the weekend. Oahu May
In the middle of the night, HAWAI‘I magazine editor Christine Hitt and I awoke to a torrential downpour. We had already been braving boisterous winds lashing down. Normally, this weather wouldn’t faze us. But tonight we’re camping in a small tent in Malaekahana Beach Campground in Laie on Oahu’s North Shore. The rain stopped about 20
Did you know back in the ’70s, Diamond Head on Oahu was the outdoor venue for a big music festival that was Hawaii’s equivalent to Woodstock? (Or depending on your age, to Coachella.) Remembered broadly as the Diamond Head Crater Festivals, sometimes called the Sunshine Festival, these concerts brought out heavyweights of the era like
It’s the next best thing to actually being there. Iolani Palace has debuted a virtual reality visitor experience, the first of its kind for a Hawaii museum. Now visitors can do an online walkthrough of the royal palace that was home to the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties. Assembled with 3D scanning technology, the virtual model
A rock star of the art world touches down in Honolulu. Yayoi Kusama’s traveling work, “Footprints of Life,” is the Japanese artist’s first exhibition in Hawaii and its currently on view at Ward Village. The outdoor art exhibit has traveled through cities like Nagoya and Taoyuan prior to here. The use of polka dots figure
