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Q&A with ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro

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 […]

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Amelia Earhart’s 118th birthday celebrated on Oahu

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,

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Food, Oʻahu

Mediterranean Poke Recipe

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

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Culture, Oʻahu

Tackling marine debris in Hawaii

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

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Family, From Our Magazine, Health/Wellness, Oʻahu, O‘ahu What To Do

Farm Fresh: Kahuku Farms on Oahu

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

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Culture, Oʻahu

The cultural significance of sharks in Hawaii

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]

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