May 2004

Features

Grading the Public Schools: The 2004 Grades
Grading the Public Schools: What It Means

Grading the Public Schools: What It Means

A profile of several schools in Honolulu, detailing their student performance, school quality, and faculty.

A. Kam Napier, School Profiles by Ronna Bolante, Fern Gavelek, and A. Kam Napier
Family Roots

Family Roots

May Moir and Susanne Zola, grandmother and grand daughter, maintain the Nuuanu Valley gardens of Lipolani.

Kaui Philpotts. Photos by Linny Morris Cunningham

Departments
Editor's Page: Editor's Page: Making the Grade Archive »

Honolulu Magazine public school ranking inspires schools to improve. Aliamanu Middle, Aliiolani Elementary, Kalani High

John Heckathorn
Letters Archive »

Honolulu Magazine Letters, May 2004
Our Town: Our Town: J Salon Archive »

A. Kam Napier
Our Town: Our Town: The Torii Gate, Moiliili Triangle Park Archive »

Guy A. Sibilla
Q&A: Q + A, Patricia Hamamoto Archive »

Interview with Patricia Hamamoto on the Department of Education and her teaching career

A. Kam Napier
Food: Profitable Peach Palms Archive »

Joan Namkoong
People: Two Skinny Chefs Archive »

Ronna Bolante
People: Anywhere the Wind Blows Archive »

Katherine Nichols
Arts: Lions Roar on Oahu Archive »

Hawaii World Invitational Lion Dance Championships are held in Honolulu.

Kathryn Drury
Culture: Lions Roar on Oahu Archive »

Hawaii World Invitational Lion Dance Championships are held in Honolulu.

Kathryn Drury
Culture: Belly Up Archive »

Ohana Portraits does maternity portrait photographs, and Origin Birth Creations does bellycasts for pregnant women.

Kathryn Drury
Culture: Bang for the Buck? Archive »

Alex Salkever
Entertainment: The Reel Story Archive »

Hawaii’s Reel Stories becomes Honolulu's outlet for local filmmakers and film lovers

Katherine Nichols
Entertainment: The Old Man and the 'Uke Archive »

Bill Tapia is releasing a jazz album, his latest work in his 86-year musical career

Guy A. Sibilla
Entertainment: Two Skinny Chefs Archive »

Ronna Bolante
Entertainment: Lions Roar on Oahu Archive »

Hawaii World Invitational Lion Dance Championships are held in Honolulu.

Kathryn Drury
Entertainment: Recommended Archive »

Recommendations by Stephanie Castillo, Juliet Lighter, and Roger Takabayashi.

A. Kam Napier
Entertainment: Mob Invades Honolulu Docks Archive »

HBO throws a Sopranos bash in Honolulu in celebration of the premiere.

John Heckathorn
Entertainment: Bang for the Buck? Archive »

Alex Salkever
Dining: Dining: East Side Story Archive »

John Heckathorn
From Our Files Archive »

"From Our Files" May 2004 Honolulu Magazine

Ronna Bolante
Afterthoughts: Afterthoughts: The Right Tool for the Job Archive »

Interview with Patricia Hamamoto about public education money, Waipahu High School and education reform

A. Kam Napier