The harvest moon is a time for celebration in many northern hemisphere cultures, appearing towards the end of the annual crop harvest, and at a time of bounty. In China, the Moon or Mid-Autumn Festival, falls on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Han Chinese calendar. There, the event—celebrated with mooncakes, the […]
The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl is hosting a ceremony open to the public today at 10 a.m. for POW/MIA Recognition Day to remember those brave servicemen and women that were prisoners of war or missing in action. “[Punchbowl] is an important landmark for veterans of our community and it’s the perfect place to
If you see hordes of superheroes and villains around the Hawaii Convention Center this weekend, fear not, good citizen, it’s just attendees of the Amazing Hawaii Comic Con. From Friday afternoon through Sunday, cosplay, gamers and super fans will converge on the convention center to engage with their fellow geeks, play video games and hear
Every year, for 63 years and counting, Aloha Festivals—Hawaii’s oldest and largest cultural celebration—has been throwing an epic block party in Waikiki. If you’re on Oahu this weekend, you won’t want to miss the Waikiki Hoolaulea. The Hawaiian word hoolaulea means “celebration.” And this year’s street-closing, seven-block hoolaulea promises just that with 21 island food
HAWAII Magazine wants to congratulate Lucinda De Leon of Poplar, Montana for winning our Aloha Festivals Flyaway Sweepstakes. The 45-year-old Native American from the Fort Peck Reservation won round-trip airfare for two on Alaska Airlines, four nights/five days at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani hotel, two tickets to the Te Moana Nui show, $100 gift card
The Koolau mountain range, as majestic as it appears today, ascending skyward like a verdant curtain of green on Oahu’s Windward Coast, looked very different just 500,000 years ago. Then the western half of a million-years-extinct massive caldera—which extended eight miles between modern-day Kaneohe and Waimanalo, and four miles east to Kailua’s Mokulua islets—the range
The Waikiki sunset premiere of CBS’s Hawaii Five-0 has become an annual fan-favorite event since the modern iteration of the 70s classic began in 2010. Many of the show’s regular stars—and special guest performer John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting—are expected to make appearances at Waikiki’s Queens Beach, across from the Honolulu Zoo, for the
The state’s largest culinary festival, celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, is in full swing on Oahu. The Hawaii Food and Wine Festival began on Aug. 29 and will run through Sept. 13. With festival founders and chairs Roy Yamaguchi (Roy’s) and Alan Wong (Alan Wong’s Restaurant, The Pineapple Room)—and a participant list saturated with
Imagine if the movies “Fern Gully” and “Swiss Family Robinson” were real, and there were tree houses prevalent around the Islands that are also designed to be off the grid with a relatively small footprint (40 square feet to be exact). A Hawaii-based company, Elevate, intends to make this come true, and has roughly 48
When Dr. Craig China purchased a vacant lot in Nuuanu Valley in 1999, he was surprised to find he’d also bought a little-known, little-seen remnant of Oahu history, too. The deed to China’s 12,000-square-foot property indicated that he was now responsible for the upkeep of its portion of the Nuuanu auwai, early Hawaiian irrigation canals
The USS Missouri aka the Mighty Mo hosted the ceremony that ended World War II 70 years ago (Sept. 2, 1945) as Japan surrendered to the Allies in Tokyo Bay. This Iowa-class battleship was decommissioned on March 31, 1992, and today sits peacefully at Pearl Harbor available for guided tours and viewings. The Mighty Mo
Across the street from the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center and near the popular H&M clothing store in Waikiki, tilt your head back and look straight up. No doubt you’re familiar with the iconic revolving restaurant perched 21 stories above (the one that looks like a flying saucer), but, just below that, you’ll notice something new.
