March 2007

Features
Best of Honolulu 2007

Best of Honolulu 2007

It’s that time of year again. We’ve scoured the island, grilled the experts and enlisted your help to bring you the best “Best of Honolulu“ ever.

Ronna Bolante, Michael Keany, Kathryn Drury Wagner, Lori Anne Tomonari and A. Kam Napier

Our City on Rails

After decades of false starts, Honolulu is closer than it’s ever been to a mass-transit rail system. So what’s next? What’s this thing going to look like? And will it work?

Michael Keany, conceptual renderings courtesy of Parsons Brinckerhoff

A Great Day Out

Photographer Sergio Goes took his camera around O‘ahu and found people and places that remind us all why we love living in Hawai‘i.

Danny Simon

Departments
Editor's Page: Another Way Home Archive »

A. Kam Napier, editor
Letters: Letters 03|07 Archive »

Calabash: Sports: Surf Lassoes Colt Archive »

Kyle Galdeira
Calabash: 7 Reasons to Get Out of the House Archive »

Lori Anne Tomonari
Calabash: Our Town: Waikiki Beach Walk Archive »

Michael Keany
Calabash: By the Numbers Archive »

2007: The Priciest Year Yet

Ronna Bolante
Calabash: Arts: Return to Romance Archive »

A new festival features timeless songs.

Kathryn Drury Wagner
Calabash: Scene: Bishop Street Rant Archive »

Downtown’s loss, and gain, changes our view.

A. Kam Napier
Calabash: Books: The Insider Archive »

Columnist Eddie Sherman chronicles Hollywood in Hawai‘i.
Calabash: Music Review Archive »

Ahumanu: The Gathering, Ahumanu (Ululoa Productions)

Michael Keany
Calabash: Shopping: Tie One On Archive »

A look inside Nervous Water, the only fly-fishing store in the Islands.

Dennis Hollier
Calabash: Scrap Yard: The Akaka Bill Archive »

This legislative session, Sen. Daniel Akaka has once again introduced the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, first proposed in 2000, which would grant Hawaiians the same federal...

Michael Keany
Calabash: Lotus Soundbar Archive »

Calabash: Health: Expanding the View Archive »

Research on the Big Island examines how diabetes affects different races.

Sujata Gupta
Calabash: Fast Fact: Crude Numbers Archive »

Calabash: Field Guide: Kahala Archive »

We explored the area under the H1 overpass and found everything from pizza to puppies.

Lori Anne Tomonari, photos by Rae Huo
Calabash: Food: Gettin’ Dressed Archive »

Forget ranch, Thousand Island and blue cheese. Who needs run-of-the-mill salad dressings when we’ve got tasty creations made especially for us in Hawai‘i? Here are just five of the...

Ronna Bolante, photos by Krisin Gonzales
Calabash: Diplomacy: Meet Your New Sister Archive »

Congratulations! It’s a Rabat.

Philip Thurston
Calabash: Environment: Bat Patrol Archive »

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s ... the Hawaiian hoary bat?

Sheila Sarhangi
Calabash: CD: New Sounds of Japan Archive »

Kathryn Drury Wagner
Calabash: Books: Written on the Body Archive »

Author Tricia Allen on tattoos and culture.

Kathryn Drury Wagner
Making a Difference: Common Ground Archive »

Two groups of Hawai‘i’s young professionals are coming together to help change the worlds of surfing and advertising.

Lori Anne Tomonari
Dining: Lucky You Eat Hawai‘i Archive »

If you had to list all your favorite Hawai‘i foods, what would they be?

John Heckathorn
From Our Files Archive »

March

Ronna Bolante
Afterthoughts: Break That Mold Archive »

Enough of this “cookie-cutter” notion of the Mainland.

Kathryn Drury Wagner, managing editor