There’s no better place to bid aloha to 2010 than in Hawaii, with fireworks over the Pacific Ocean. Imagine balmy weather on New Year’s Eve, lounging in slippers on a stretch of sandy beach, maybe a tropical cocktail in hand. No snow to plow, no heavy coats to wear, no chance of hail in the […]
Traveling to Oahu with your laptop? The wait time for your flight home—or to a neighbor island—at Honolulu International Airport could pass a lot quicker now that the terminal is offering free wireless Internet access to travelers at all gates. Beginning this month, Honolulu International Airport is offering wireless Internet access throughout its concourses, lounges
Like the photo above? So did we. A lot. And that’s why it’s the grand prize-winning entry in HAWAII Magazine’s 12th Annual Photo Contest. Last May we asked HAWAII readers to send us their best photos of the Islands in four categories: Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii. Nearly 3,000 entries flooded
There will be no more sonatas, no more concertos and no more performances for the 110-year-old Honolulu Symphony. A U.S. bankruptcy court judge this week approved a request by the Honolulu Symphony to liquidate, effectively ending the nation’s oldest symphony west of the Rockies. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Faris agreed to convert the Honolulu
The first official movie trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is just out, and Hawai‘i has just as much face time in it as lead star Johnny Depp. The new trailer for the fourth installment in Walt Disney Pictures blockbuster action-comedy series showcases Hawai‘i in all its visual splendor, from Kauai’s rain
Anyone who’s gone snorkeling off of Waikiki’s beaches recently knows there aren’t as many fish as there used to be. Which is why the state bans fishing in this area every other year, encouraging the local fish population to replenish. Starting Jan. 1, 2011, the shoreline along Waikiki and Diamond Head — known as the Waikiki-Diamond
One of the Big Island’s most unique public parks, Lava Tree State Monument, recently reopened after three months of maintenance work and park improvements. The Lava Tree State Monument is a public park located in the Puna district of the Big Island known for its “lava trees”—actually tree molds that were formed when a lava
*Editor’s Note: This sale has ended. There’s a lot happening on Friday, Dec. 20 with Alaska Airlines. The Seattle-based carrier is giving priority seating to anyone wearing a holiday sweater on Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air flights all day today—National Ugly Sweater Day. And now, it’s offering a BOGO deal that’s spreading even more holiday
You’d be hard-pressed to find a better place to spend the holidays than Hawaii — especially with the severe winter weather hitting parts of the Mainland. So it’s no wonder President Barack Obama and his family will be spending Christmas and New Year’s in the Islands for the third year in a row. First lady Michelle
Some folks wait for Santa during the holiday season. But here in Hawaii, we wait almost as patiently to catch a glimpse of another annual winter season visitor—more than 10,000 of them actually. The humpback whales—called kohola in Hawaiian—reside in Hawaii’s warm and shallow waters each November through early May to breed, birth and raise
Is there anyone who still believes you can’t have a white Christmas in Hawaii? Last week, a storm front that brought heavy rains across the island chain dropped the first snow of the season on the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island. So much so, in fact, a winter storm
You ask. We answer. Pat Duffus of Clearwater, Florida writes: What is the story behind the Hawaiian flag? When I see it I am reminded more of Britain than Hawaii. Is there a Hawaiian flag that precedes it? Pat’s right about the British connection. King Kamehameha I flew a British flag throughout his kingdom in
