September 2014: Table of Contents
Features
On The Cover: Koko Head Café chef Lee Anne Wong gets a nuzzle from a Shinsato Farm piglet. Read more about her in the Restaurant Guide.
Photo by Mark Arbeit. Styling by Cathy Chun. Photo retouching by Michael Brittain.
Special Section: Annual All-Island Restaurant Guide
Our annual insert celebrates all the delicious dining options Hawaii offers. This year, we’re focusing on chefs—what dishes they like to eat, at their own restaurants and elsewhere, what kinds of stuff they keep in their fridges, and what it’s like to be a woman in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Plus, a quick guide to choosing the best wine to pair with food at BYOB restaurants.
100 Years of Drama
Diamond Head Theatre marks its centennial anniversary this year. We take a look back at some of the theater’s most memorable moments.
by david thompson
HPU at a Crossroads
Three years after longtime president Chatt Wright retired, Hawaii Pacific University is undergoing many changes, physically, financially and philosophically. What’s next for Hawaii’s largest private university?
by loren moreno
The Making of Under the Blood Red Sun
Making a movie in Hawaii requires a lot of work, ingenuity and time. Welcome to a day in the life of an independent film producer.
Edited by robbie dingeman
Calabash
The Na Wahine O Ke Kai race
By Lorin Eleni Gill
September Picks
From the Miss Chinatown pageant to a country superstar, September is filled with some major girl power! (And wine. No girls’ night out is complete without wine.)
By Katrina Valcourt
A new comic book shop in Mililani
Dragon’s Lair is finding a comic book market in the suburbs.
By James Charisma
Da Meter
Gauging what’s hot and what’s not in Honolulu.
By HONOLULU Magazine Staff
Hung Up
It took lawmakers a year to revise a bill cracking down on drivers using mobile devices. We asked for a year’s worth of citations to uncover the most common places and times to get a ticket. Consider yourself warned.
By Loren Moreno
5 Things you didn’t know about Joe Moore
Wheel of Fourtune host Pat Sajak and local TV newscaster Joe Moore have been friends for more than 40 years. Sajak has learned a few things.
By David Thompson
Aiea Library architecture
Aiea’s new public library was built on the site of a sugar mill. And it shows.
By Christi Young
Hawaii’s Busiest Libraries
By HONOLULU Magazine Staff
Quote Unquote: Kahunui Foster
This month, Kahunui Foster begins her freshman year at Harvard University—the first Waianae High School graduate admitted to Harvard since 1980. Foster was part of Waianae High’s media program, Searider Productions. While the college admission rate for Waianae graduates is far below the state average, nearly 100 percent of Searider Productions’ class of 2014 got into college. But only Foster—one of three daughters raised by a very proud single mother—is headed for the Ivies.
Interview By david thompson
Field Notes: The Makiki Community Garden
Field Notes explores Honolulu’s vast and varied scenes and subcultures. This month: the Makiki Community Garden.
By david thompson
Style
Issa de Mar swimsuit, a profile on designer Kaypee Soh, chic chokers plus Basic Instinct.
by stacey makiya, brie thalmann and natalie schack
From Our Files
HONOLULU Magazine and Paradise of the Pacific—chronicling the Islands since 1888.
by lorin eleni gill
Columns
Editor’s Page: The Right Reasons
A pig farmer, a chef and Hawaii executives talk about work.
By robbie dingeman
Afterthoughts: Early Birds
On the joys of redisovering a piece of your teenage years.
By Michael Keany
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