Editor's Page: Keepsakes
Some buildings become heirlooms, best handed down.
Author: A. Kam Napier
Squeezing In
How many Honoluluans can fit into a tiny condo?
Paging Dr. Doctor
Another argument for throwing more doctors at the health care crisis, instead of more insurance.
Paging Doctor Insurance
If it's medicine that we need, why is insurance always the prescription?
Editor's Page: Fun with Inflation
Prices get bigger, dollars get smaller, but we want just as much.
Update: Drug Dogs and Tax Protests
More on drug-sniffing dogs in schools and tax protests.
Gone to the Dogs
McKinley High School wants to bring in drug-sniffing dogs. What will that teach the students?
Editor’s Page: Taxing Times
Everyone believes a civilization worth having is worth paying for. But no one likes to be taken for a ride, either.
Honolulu on 70 Dollars a day?
Can a single adult get by in Honolulu on an annual income of $25,605.24?
Take One Aspirin, Don’t Call Me in the Morning
A glimpse of the future should Hawaii pursue universal healthcare?
Sweet Haven Hawaii
How is Honolulu like the grim seaside town of Popeye's Sweet Haven?
More red-light camera corruption …
Another cautionary tale for Hawaii of a government cheating its citizens with red-light cameras, this time from Italy.
Red-light cameras? Please, stop!
Hawaii is considering red-light cameras again. It's still a bad idea.
Remembering MacMillan
Shortly before Christmas, we received word that local author Ian MacMillan had passed away on Dec. 18.
Finally, Success!
Hawaii finally scores high on a national ranking. Unfortunately ...
Tired Rhetoric
President-elect Barack Obama supports public schools in his day job, but not in his private life.
Fail Safe
Have you noticed people using the word “fail” in a strange new way lately?
Old Soy
For how long do you think Kikkoman has been making soy sauce?
Going, Going, Gone?
Think for a moment about a building you know well. Say the downtown Honolulu office building where you work or the Costco store where you stock up on giant strawberries. Now imagine that building in some distant future, facing its…
50 Reasons to Love This City
It’s easy to take for granted how cool, how eclectic, how just plain great this city is, so we thought we’d list just a few of the reasons, both big and little, that we love this place.
Zipped Up
The state just announced it will now ration the H-1 freeway zipper lanes to cars with three or more occupants, instead of two. The zipper lane, apparently, is too popular, because the stated goal of this move is to get about 300 cars a day out of the zipper lane, so that people who do carpool can get back their superfast commute to town.
I have an idea. A wild, crazy idea. How about we open the zipper lane to everyone who paid for it? Like, you know, taxpayers.
If you paid $50 in advance
Rescue Your Stuff
We’ve scoured Honolulu for the quickest, easiest and most reliable repair ideas.
The Last Flight Out
Scrap your vacation plans, your air travel is killing us.
Bar Town
Here's to you, Honolulu!
Rant: Road Rage
photo by Michael Keany You’ll find a scar of asphalt on the makai side of Kapiolani Boulevard, just before Atkinson Drive and the Convention Center. All day long, traffic pushes asphalt up and out of a chronic pothole, into a…
Cheap Eats
Hungry for good values, we combed through the Islands in pursuit of delicious meals for $20 or less. We lunched, we brunched, we wined, we dined. And we found you can eat well, accompanied only by a minted portrait of Andrew Jackson. The secret is not just knowing where to go, but what to order. So grab your wallet, and follow us.
Rant: Return to Sender
photo: istock As a promotional stunt, the cable network TV Land has somehow talked the city and county of Honolulu into accepting a life-size statue of Elvis Presley, to be unveiled next month at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center. The…
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.
Best of Honolulu – Entertainment
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.
Best of Honolulu – Shopping
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.
Best of Honolulu – Food
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.
Best of Honolulu – Services
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.
Best of Honolulu – Fitness
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.
Best of Honolulu – People
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.
Scene: Bishop Street Rant
Downtown’s loss, and gain, changes our view.
Books: Bumbye Hawai‘i
What will Hawai‘i be like in the future? That’s the question Kapi‘olani Community College instructor Lee Tonouchi put to his writing students. He was inspired to do so by an article we published in 2004, in which we noted that,…
Night Shift
When the sun goes down, a completely different Honolulu comes to life. For most of us, it’s a time to watch television and then go to sleep, but, for some, it’s time for work. Meet the people who are up all night—making nightlife fun, keeping us safe, and making sure the city is ready to go when we wake up in the morning.
Design Matters
DESIGN MATTERS MEET THE DESIGNERS DESIGNING THE ISLANDS TAKE HOME DESIGN DESIGN MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN OUR LIVES. That's easy to forget, because great design is often invisible. The iPod receives obsessive press, but who gives a second thought to…
Designing the Islands
Architecture and its kindred disciplines bring us design at its most prominent and enduring. Here are just some of the people in the islands who are designing today’s buildings, homes, interiors and landscapes.
Your Tax Dollars Ticking Away
You can watch your Hawai'i state tax dollars tick away in real time at www.grassrootinstitute.org. The Web site, run by a local government watchdog think tank called the Grass Root Institute, bases its Hawai'i State Spend-O-Meter on the state's current…
Books: Gen X Nostalgia
New releases bring back '70s and '80s Hawaii.
And, Action!
Every January, your story starts all over again.
Books: The Literature of … Mililani?
A new collection of short stories focuses on young women in suburbia.
Lights, China, Action
Guns will blaze at the Chinese Film Festival.
Partnerships
No need to go it alone, when good help is all around.
THE HONOLULU 100 – Introduction
To celebrate the city and county of Honolulu's centennial anniversary, Honolulu Magazine honors 100 noteworthy citizens from throughout the past 100 years.
Island Style
A new book encapsulates a lifetime of design lessons learned by one of the Islands' preeminent interior designers, Mary Philpotts. What are the elements of classic Hawaiian style? The photos and text on these pages simply scratch the surface.
40 Things Every Local Must Do
Locals in Hawai'i have their own ideas on everything, from how food should taste to how holidays should be celebrated. We've even got our own way of speaking the English language.
40 Things Every Local Must Do
21. Drown a graduate in lei. Funny how it creeps up on you. One day, you're the 17-year-old graduate, dizzy from the smell of pikake or maile. Then, before you know it, you get a graduation announcement in the mail,…
Traditions and Changes
Something old, something new at HONOLULU.
