Best of Honolulu 2019
Discover all the 2019 Best of Honolulu winners—both editorial and reader picks.
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Don Wallace is the author of four books and has written for The New York Times, Harper’s, The Surfer’s Journal, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Wine Spectator, among others. His latest book is The French House: An American Family, a Ruined Maison, and the Village that Restored Them All. He also wrote the documentary film Those Who Came Before: The Musical Journey of Eddie Kamae. He is HONOLULU Magazine’s contributing editor.
Discover all the 2019 Best of Honolulu winners—both editorial and reader picks.
A companion to our feature The Hawai‘i Writer’s Life, this compendium of writers, platforms, resources and more intends to map out our literary communities and individuals. It’s just getting started, but we hope it will grow to help them, and you,…
A companion to our feature The Hawai‘i Writer’s Life, this compendium of writers, platforms, resources and more intends to map out our literary communities and individuals. It’s just getting started, but we hope it will grow to help them, and you,…
A companion to our feature The Hawai‘i Writer’s Life, this compendium of writers, platforms, resources and more intends to map out our literary communities and individuals. It’s just getting started, but we hope it will grow to help them, and you,…
A companion to our feature The Hawai‘i Writer’s Life, this compendium of writers, platforms, resources and more intends to map out our literary communities and individuals. It’s just getting started, but we hope it will grow to help them, and you,…
A companion to our feature The Hawai‘i Writer’s Life, this compendium of writers, platforms, resources and more intends to map out our literary communities and individuals. It’s just getting started, but we hope it will grow to help them, and you,…
A companion to our feature The Hawai‘i Writer’s Life, this compendium of writers, platforms, resources and more intends to map out our literary communities and individuals. It’s just getting started, but we hope it will grow to help them, and you,…
A companion to our feature “The Hawai‘i Writer’s Life,” this compendium of writers, platforms, resources and more intends to map out our literary communities and individuals. It’s just getting started, but we hope it will grow to help them, and…
A companion to our feature The Hawai‘i Writer’s Life, this compendium of writers, platforms, resources and more intends to map out our literary communities and individuals. It’s just getting started, but we hope it will grow to help them, and you,…
The 47 editorial and reader picks for the places in Honolulu that make our lives just a bit easier.
Until last weekend the Olympics looked promising for Hawai‘i’s surfing contingent, with four local hopefuls.
Don’t hate me. Oh, go ahead. Hate me.
The 9 editorial and reader picks for the best ways to get out and active.
45 editorial and reader picks for the tastiest food and beverage in town.
Little shops, lots of foot traffic, local food and friendly landlords keep the 700 block of Kapahulu Avenue humming.
Here we see how the other half lived on vacation—sometimes breaking the law in style—and even, in one instance, dying.
Island rodeos give local heroes a chance to rope, wrassle and get bucked into the dirt. A new book and summer events honor the spirit of the three paniolo who took on the world’s best in 1908 and won.
Don’t miss the crispy hot Nashville chicken po’boy, the short rib torta on crunchy pickled carrot strings or the shrimp toast. On Sundays score the $10 overloaded brunch burger and fried chicken doughnut.
Who has the best seafood tower on O‘ahu?
Come for the healthy greens and fruit, then linger over more recent arrivals—ube and taro tarts, macadamia nut soft serve, honey slushies and sausage sushi.
Hawai‘i Pacific University’s move to Aloha Tower Marketplace and Waterfront and Pioneer plazas is a real cliffhanger. What’s next?
The incident off Diamond Head involved a surfer, a shark and one terrifying minute. But does it break the 150-year kapu that has kept the Waikīkī shores unbloodied?
Get off the sofa. Spice up your tired life. Check these breakouts from Sundance, Japan, China, Vietnam and more at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival April 5—14.
These aren’t your grandmother’s romances, kid sister’s sword-and-buckler fantasies or Michener middlebrows.
“Party flight!” But are there any seats for the rest of us?
Comfort food might be indulgent, but it connects us to family, traditions, cultures. Here are some of our favorites, elevated, but still reminding us of when life was simpler and calories didn’t exist.
Each of these three restaurants won on the first Hale ‘Aina ballot. And each is here today, still racking up honors. How do they do it?
A handy financial checklist to guide you through every stage.
For all those thrifty rich locals living their best lives in Hawai‘i.
How they’ve made it, saved it and are passing it on.
This uniquely Hawai‘i adaptation of America’s rising pastime was played without pads and substituted slick ballhandling, shifty moves and multitalented stars in rolled-up dungarees.
Here’s Why You Won’t Want to Miss Richard Powers on Feb. 6.
Over time, people have tried an impressive range of tactics to repel sharks. But do they work? Not well enough ...
Top of the seafood chain: Fish fanatics found piscatory paradise at Herringbone Waikīkī.
Give local tidings and joy while supporting Hawai‘i writers, publishers and bookstores—and your friends’ and family’s reading habit.
46 cool things to try at O‘ahu’s museums.
The challenge at this museum has always been how to showcase its 26 million artifacts and objects.
Best known as the site of the official end of World War II, the USS “Missouri” makes a perfect bookend to the USS “Arizona” Memorial just a few hundred yards off its bow.
Maybe we should hang on to all those emergency supplies we bought earlier.
Field Notes explores Honolulu’s vast and varied scenes and subcultures.