If you’re on Oahu this weekend, check out the multitude of music, art, dance and food of Hawaii and the Pacific Rim set for this year’s 20th annual Honolulu Festival, one of the state’s premiere cultural events. The theme of this year’s festival, which starts this Friday and ends Sunday at various locations in and […]
Last summer and fall, we asked our reader ohana to share their picks of the best of everything the Hawaiian Islands have to offer for our 2014 HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards. Thousands of our Mainland U.S., Hawaii and international readers responded, packing their Readers’ Choice ballots with hundreds of selections for everything from their
A concert, parade and even an imu (Hawaiian underground oven) workshop are all part of March events commemorating the birthday of Hawaii’s Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole beginning this weekend on three islands. Born in the south Kauai town of Koloa in 1871, Kuhio created much of the Hawaii the world sees today. A prince of
A new iPhone app created by the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology allows users to virtually visit one of Oahu’s most historic Hawaiian fishponds wherever they are in the world. The free app called Loko Ia—Hawaiian for “fishpond”—offers iPhone users two types of interactive, multimedia tours of 800-year-old Heeia Fishpond
There are two things you can guarantee will always happen every February in Honolulu. First, a lot more rain than usual—it is winter in Hawaii, after all, and it never snows in our metropolis. The second? The Punahou School Carnival, always set for the first weekend in February. We’re crossing our fingers that only the
If you’ve driven through or walked the streets of the urban Honolulu district of Kakaako in recent years, you’ve probably seen the colorful work of POW! WOW! Hawaii. For the last five years, the collective of Hawaii-based artists and art-minded individuals has set aside a week each February to craft wall-sized murals and street art
It’s easy to brand the popular and pervasive North Shore O‘ahu shrimp shacks and trucks as tourist traps. On most days near lunchtime, it’s not uncommon to find dozens of packed tour vans parked outside shrimp purveyors between the North Shore towns of Hale‘iwa and Kahuku, their passengers scarfing down plates of shrimp. Catch us
Throw out everything you know about the NFL Pro Bowl. This year’s pre-Superbowl all-star matchup in Hawaii isn’t about AFC vs. NFC. Instead, the pros were drafted for play, creating unexpected teams and memorable matchups the all-star game has never seen before. The first-ever Pro Bowl draft happened yesterday on Oahu, with NFL Hall of
Hawaii’s unofficial second New Year’s celebration, Chinese New Year, doesn’t officially start until Jan 31. But festivities on Oahu will begin as early as next week—Jan. 24—and continue through Jan. 31 in the Chinatown Culture & Arts District and at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. We’ve got the highlights here. Gung Hee Fat Choy! Be
Imagine spending a morning in the Islands watching humpback whales breach and spout as they migrate through the warm Hawaiian waters, all the while helping marine scientists study the habits of our largest annual visitors. These are just two of the benefits of volunteering for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Ocean Count,
It’s the last weekend to view a collection of Hawaii works by pioneering American artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams, on display at the Honolulu Museum of Art. In 1929 painter Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Ansel Adams met for the first time in Taos, New Mexico. She was an established artist; he was just starting
Each of my past several visits to Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden began at sunrise. Greeted by a few wild chickens strutting near the park’s still-locked, gated entry, my running buddies and I would lace up our footwear and survey the skies above Windward Oahu and the lushly verdant hills before us. Then, rain or shine, we
