Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has seemingly done it all. He’s toured the world, been the subject of an award-winning documentary, performed on national television and shared stage and studio time with the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, Bette Midler and Jack Johnson. His most recent album, 2012’s Grand Ukulele, was a collaborative project with veteran British producer/engineer […]
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so it’s a good thing that one classic breakfast combo is trending: milk and cereal. Whether it’s for breakfast, brunch or dessert, here are five Oahu eateries that are serving up different ways to enjoy this breakfast classic. 1. Scratch Kitchen & Bake Shop Breakfast is
Did you know Honolulu boasts the most sake-serving restaurants per capita than any other U.S. city, according to the U.S. National Sake Appraisal? The Joy of Sake is this week, so we felt it was fitting to tap sake expert and enthusiast, Lito Pineda, to give us some tips on how to drink like a
Amelia Earhart, the first person to fly solo across the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, vanished in June 1937—months after leaving Oahu for the second time to continue her ill-fated east-to-west around-the-world trip. On Fri., July 24, the Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor will celebrate the record-breaking aviator’s 118th birthday from Ford Island Runway,
During college, while working her first culinary job as a fishmonger in Oakland, Calif., O‘ahu-raised Kimberly Oi, decided to whip up some poke just because she craved it. “I was a little homesick and I was dealing with ‘ahi all the time,” says Oi, who is sous chef of Lunchbox by Pili Group,. “So I thought, why
This weekend, young hula protégés ages 5 to 12 will show off their dance moves in the 40th annual Queen Liliuokalani Keiki Hula Competition at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu. The three-day competition will feature 450 keiki (kids) representing 22 hula halau (dance troupes) from Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Hawaii Island and Japan. Can’t
Though Hawaii’s beaches are cleaner than many, the state’s location in the middle of the Pacific can mean that tiny pieces of plastic—broken down from larger pieces by the sun and waves as they are carried by currents from Asia and the mainland U.S.—wash up on our beaches. “The Northeast trade winds blow the trash
One of the most popular visitor shows on Maui, “Burn’n Love,” an Elvis tribute extravaganza, is sparking more conversations AND getting a little more action, after opening its second show in Waikiki this week. The new show by the same name opened at the Magic of Polynesia Theatre at the Holiday Inn Resort Waikiki Beachcomber
The third Sunday of July is National Ice Cream Day, but you can celebrate all month long. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July as National Ice Cream Month after declaring the third Sunday of July National Ice Cream Day in 1984. He called ice cream “a nutritious and wholesome food,” and who are we to disagree?
To inhale a butter-and-garlic sautéed shrimp plate lunch or sip a Tropi-Kale smoothie? That is the question. Kahuku Farms’ roadside farm café—home of the aforementioned smoothie, made with kale, apple banana and vanilla grown on adjacent acreage—sits just outside its namesake town on Oahu’s Windward Coast. It looks friendly enough, its bright yellow façade presenting
As the captain of the Moo, a 20-foot Radan boat, Haleiwa’s Kaiwi Berry, founder of Island View Hawaii, a pelagic tour company, regularly takes visitors out to have close encounters with mano (sharks). “The most-feared part—that I always tell people on the boat—is the ‘unknown factor’ because once they actually get in the water with us, [they]
When Solar Impulse 2 arrives at southern Oahu’s Kalaeloa Airport on Fri., July 3 around 6 a.m. after a five-day and five-night flight, not a drop of fuel will have been used. The aircraft—powered only by solar power and piloted by a single man—left Japan for Hawaii on Sun., June 28 at 6 p.m. UTC.
