Last year, at the 35th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards ceremony (Hawaiian music industry’s equivalent to Grammys), Big Island vocalist/songwriter/musician Kuana Torres Kahele and his debut solo album, Kaunaloa, were the top winners. Kahele (pictured, right), a founding member of multi-Hoku-award-winning group Na Palapalai, is in the running again (along with Na Palapalai’s other members, […]
In an effort to reduce cigarette-butt litter and address public health concerns, some of the most popular beaches on Oahu’s south shore are now smoke-free zones. Supporters of a smoking ban backed by Honolulu’s City Council hope a new Oahu mandate will mean no more drifting second-hand cigarette smoke, and that smokers will no longer
In celebration of “Earth Month,” The Waikiki Aquarium will host the sixth annual Mauka to Makai Environmental Expo on Sat., April 13. This free, family oriented event, set for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., will focus on Hawaii’s unique water resources from mauka (inland) to makai (ocean) with hands-on educational activities and displays that showcase
Clark Little never dreamed his lifelong passion for riding North Shore Oahu surf would ignite an award-winning career in wave photography. In the late 1990s a self-described “crazy surfing shore-break man,” Little would charge into massive, board-sucking shore-break surf, regularly get thrown onto the sand, and risk the breaking of bones or worse. It was
The Hawaiian Scottish Association will hold its 32nd annual Hawaiian Scottish Festival & Highland Games this weekend on Oahu. Two days of festivities will get under way at 9 a.m. Sat., April 6 in Kapiolani Park area, edging Waikiki. The highland games will feature Celtic music, a highland dance competition and various age-old highland games
Two authors of books detailing the origins of various elements of contemporary Hawaii cuisine and food culture will be featured at Inspired Food – The Roots of Hawaii Cuisine Brunch & Talk-Story with Chef Alan Wong & Arnold Hiura, a culinary event slated for later this month in Honolulu. Wong, an award-winning celebrity chef, and
Last fall, we asked our estimated 200,000 HAWAII Magazine print edition readers and website readers to share their “Hawaii best” selections in more than 60 categories. We tallied their picks — more than 50,000, in all — and compiled them into HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards lists that appear in the March/April 2013 issue of HAWAII
Hawaii Five-O is now booked for a fourth season. The Hawaii-filmed re-imagined police procedural drama is one of several primetime television series renewed by CBS this week for the 2013-14 season that gets under way in September. CBS will also bring back are NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles, both dramas. Also, the network has reportedly
Founded in 1963, the Hawaii Polo Club is celebrating 50 years of polo on Oahu’s scenic North Shore. Its season, which is filled with Sunday afternoon games featuring several international teams, is slated to get under way on April 7 and continue through mid-July. All matches start at 2 p.m., with gates opening at 11
The National Football League announced last week that it will stage its 2014 Pro Bowl in Hawaii. The all-star game, in which the NFC (National Football Conference) squares off against the AFC (American Football Conference), is slated for Jan. 26 at Oahu’s Aloha Stadium — one week before East Rutherford, New Jersey hosts Super Bowl
Up for a Memorial Day weekend in Honolulu filled with Hawaii art, culture and history? Check out Two Museums and a Royal Palace Weekend, a two-day event held at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, and Iolani Palace. Among the highlights: the Bishop Museum’s annual Native Hawaiian Arts Market; a sale of contemporary art
Hawaii residents and visitors alike are invited to take part in the third and final round of the annual Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary’s Ocean Count, which will get under way on Sat., March 30 at more than 60 shore sites edging Oahu, Kauai, and the Big Island. The first two Ocean Count
