At HAWAII Magazine, we pride ourselves on being not just the largest paid-circulation magazine based in the state of Hawaii, but also your portal to the islands and their history, culture and landscape. With each issue, we strive to give you insight into how to experience the best the Islands have to offer, plan for new vacations and fondly remember past […]
These are the Hawaii festivals that people travel from all corners of the world to attend. Whether it’s a legendary hula festival or a block party in honor of Hawaii’s favorite canned meat, you won’t find these unique gatherings anywhere else in the world. Here are the festivals and celebrations of Island culture our readers
Folks, you’re looking at history in the making. This photo, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), consisting of eight radio telescope observatories around the world working together, is the first ever image we’ve seen of an actual black hole—or rather, the silhouette of the black hole against the bright material surrounding it. Two Hawaii
The 2019 Honolulu Biennial is here until May 5, 2019, with modern art installations at more than 10 venues around Honolulu, presented by 19 Hawaii artists along with 28 international artists and collectives. This year’s Biennial, titled To Make Wrong/Right/Now, aims to highlight untold stories from an indigenous perspective and celebrate creative expression from Hawaii’s many cultures,
It’s not every day that you want to splurge on the best restaurant you can find. For those busy days, casual lunches or when you only have enough time and money to grab and go, we’ve got you covered. The HAWAII staff put our heads together and came up with this list of affordable and quick
March may be National Noodle Month, but in Hawaii, we love slurping noodles all year: saimin, ramen, udon, soba, chow mein, look funn, pancit, banh pho, spaghetti–you get the point. We can’t wait to try this recipe from award-winning culinary genius chef Masaharu Morimoto, probably best known for his role on the Japanese cooking show, Iron
It’s hard to know if you’re really getting a locally made product when you buy from a street kiosk, store or farmers market. The question of where you can find the best made-in-Hawaii clothes, knickknacks, music, crafts, jewelry and home décor is a big one. Here are some of the top boutiques on Oahu where
It’s not every drink that has a bar named after it or captures the magical essence of island life so well as the mai tai. And while the most iconic cocktail of tiki culture has many recipes and variations, these are the ones you voted “best” in Hawaii in our 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards. 1.
On a hill overlooking Hana, across from the Travaasa Hana resort, stands one of the rural town’s most visible landmarks, a large cross made of lava rock that was erected in the early 1960s in memory of Paul Irving Fagan, Sr. Fagan was an important figure in the community who established cattle ranching in Hana
Each spring, artists from all over the world hit the streets of Honolulu’s Kakaako district for the annual Pow! Wow! street art festival, painting dozens of murals that stay up until the next year’s event. The colorful walk-through gallery, which spans several blocks, makes for some great photo ops throughout the year. Here’s where to
Make the long and winding drive to Hana or fly in from Kahului on a tiny Mokulele plane and you’ll find Travaasa Hana waiting for you at the end of your journey. Likely, you’ll be hungry when you get there. As much a community mainstay as it is a resort, Travaasa hovers just on the
Get stoked—you can now legitimately use Hawaiian Pidgin words “hammajang” and “howzit” in your Scrabble game. As part of the Oxford English Dictionary’s 90th anniversary celebrations, the respected reference asked the public last year for regional vocabulary suggestions, and the word “hammajang,” used in Pidgin to indicate that something is “all messed up, askew or wonky,”
