The Big Island’s luxe Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, which sustained tsunami-fueled damages and closed last month will reopen for guests this Sat., April 30. Flooding damaged 12 of the oceanfront resort’s 243 rooms, pushed sand from its beach father inland, jumbled landscaping and killed stretches of the South Kohala-area resort’s grass, said Four Seasons spokesman […]
Hawaii’s hula halau (dancing groups) and competitive dancers from elsewhere are now making their way to Hilo to take part in the 48th annual Merrie Monarch Festival’s three-night competition, which will begin Thurs., April 28 with the Miss Aloha Hula Competition. But before the world’s premier hula contest gets under way, the weeklong Merrie Monarch
This week, as we celebrate Earth Day, green-minded voluntourism opportunities in Hawaii, ranging from beach cleanups to native plant restoration efforts, are in the works. By volunteering for even a few hours with endeavors aimed at preserving paradise, you can gain a deeper appreciation of Hawaii’s awe-inspiring yet fragile environment. Environmental voluntourism offers vacationing visitors
The cover feature of HAWAII Magazine’s March/April issue is our 2011 Now List , a.k.a. our annual “20 Things We Love About Hawaii … Right Now” list. Among the collection of things we’re currently enamored of here in the Islands, you’ll find our favorite handmade, fresh-ingredient-fused Hawaiian paleta to cool down with on a hot
There’s still much talk swirling in the national and international media about just how much of Hawaii is really open for business in the wake of last Friday’s tsunami-generated ocean surges, spawned by the Japan earthquake. So much talk, in fact, that Hawaii tourism officials and Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie took to issuing multiple media
It’s over … for now. Kilauea volcano’s most recent fissure eruption, which last week sent lava spatter up to 160 feet in the air from a 1.4-mile crack in the earth, has ended indefinitely. The breakout Kamoamoa fissure, near Puu Oo crater on the Kilauea summit’s east rift zone, paused last Wednesday evening after five
Picture yourself at a beachside barbecue, on the lawn at aptly named Paradise Cove, Oahu. As the sun sets through the waving palms, you wander from food tent to food tent—and realize this is not just any barbecue. There’s roast duck with red wine teriyaki sauce. A seafood pouch with shrimp, clams, mahimahi and honshimeiji
Geologists at the Big Island’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory yesterday released dramatic video of last weekend’s collapse of the Puu Oo crater floor on Kilauea volcano. The time-lapse video below, captured over 19 hours on Saturday, shows the Puu Oo crater floor dropping more than 377 feet. As the floor of the crater gives way, fiery
“Every brushstroke and every word has brought and will forever bring wisdom, beauty, inspiration and understanding.” That was a quote by Hawaiian artist, historian, author and founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Herb Kawainui Kane, posted on his website this morning. Kane died quietly last night in his longtime Big Island hometown of Kona at
The floor of Kilauea volcano’s Puu Oo crater collapsed in an explosion of ash and fumes this weekend at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park as lava began spattering as high as 80 ft. from a new fissure two miles away. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists reported that the Puu Oo vent collapse event began at around 2:16
Say you’re at the top of your profession as a Hawaii hotel chef. You’ve cooked at Waikiki’s famed Halekulani and done a stint in San Francisco during the food revolution of the ’80s. At the Lodge at Koele on Lanai, you’ve won the “triple crown” from Zagat. That is, the guide rates your restaurant tops
Nutty? Unshelled? Many words come to mind to describe a just-announced Lifetime network reality TV show, which will follow comedienne/self-proclaimed domestic goddess Roseanne Barr as she runs a macadamia nut and livestock farm in Honokaa on the Big Island of Hawaii. “I’m coming back down to earth, and keeping it real. They’ve said ‘Roseanne’s nuts’
