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Photo Gallery: Hawai‘i During the Pandemic in 2020
We asked our team and our readers to show us what Honolulu looked like in 2020. Here are their photos and we welcome you to send us yours.
Photo Gallery: See Some of Honolulu’s Exceptional Trees
We spent weeks contemplating some of Honolulu’s oldest, biggest and most impressive trees to capture their natural magnificence.
Drink Just-Brewed Beer, Buy Fishing Gear, Fix Something and Eat Old-School Japanese Food on Kāne‘ohe’s Kahuhipa Street
A diverse mix of businesses tucked into two-story warehouses.
Your O‘ahu Neighborhood Guide: Monsarrat Avenue
Once a sleepy burger stop for surfers, Monsarrat Avenue has transformed over 19 years into a food and fashion scene noted for outdoorsy authenticity.
Best of Honolulu 2020
We sought out the best of everything—from local sake to seafood boil, bank to barbershop—and expanded our list with a finalist in every category chosen by our readers.
Our Separate Reality: Snapshots of Honolulu’s New Normal During Quarantine
A week after the city and state ordered us to shelter in place, O‘ahu was almost unrecognizable.
Catch The Gay Men’s Chorus of Honolulu at Their Upcoming Jazzy Holiday Jam (and Christmas Caroling Near You)
The Hawai‘i chapter of the nationwide movement can be found caroling around town this month as well as in a holiday concert at Hawai‘i Theatre.
Native Hawaiians Are Taking Ownership of Indigenous Sites and Stories With a New Location-Based and Podcast App
Choose from a hundred free, ethically sourced guided tours thanks to Native Stories. The app’s gone global and adds Japanese-language programming this fall. (And did we mention that we love it?)
Yes, That Big Red Box in Honolulu’s Chinatown (and Waikīkī) is Talking to You
Don’t be startled if you hear Mayor Kirk Caldwell yell, “Aloha!”
HONOLULU Magazine’s Summer 2019 Bucket List: The 53 Best Things to Do on O‘ahu
We rounded up your must-do list for the season so you can plan the best summer ever.
These Two Coworking Spaces on O‘ahu Are Serious Office Goals
When your coworking needs are above and beyond those of what a typical coffee shop can offer, here are two options, in town and Kailua.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Have Lunch with an Artist at Hawai‘i State Art Museum
The museum includes work from the Art in Public Places Program, dedicated to acquiring, preserving and displaying works of art that relate to the Hawaiian Islands or the culture of its people.
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Lets You Climb Into Cockpits
Besides model aircraft and exhibits that depict Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, coast through the skies, dogfight in the air and land on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the museum’s combat flight simulator.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Sleep Next to a Volcano at Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
The challenge at this museum has always been how to showcase its 26 million artifacts and objects.
O‘ahu Museums Ideas: Dance in Front of Homes at Hawai‘i’s Plantation Village
The village is home to 25 structures that depict what life was like for the ethnic groups that lived and worked on Hawai‘i’s plantations.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Listen to Stories in a Cemetery at Hawaiian Mission Houses
The mission houses were a site to create and share culture. Two centuries later, they still are.
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Have Tea at Queen Emma’s Summer Palace
Inside, treasures fill each room: a friendship bracelet containing a lock of English Queen Victoria’s hair; a fireman’s jacket belonging to Emma’s son, Prince Albert Edward; a cloak that survived a bombing in England during World War II
O‘ahu Museum Ideas: Throw a Pier Party at the Battleship “Missouri” Memorial
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.
Experience Dec. 7, 1941 Virtually at WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument
Spread over nine sites across three states, the WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument honors the people, places and events of World War II in the Pacific theater.
Kapi‘olani Community College’s Farmers Market Celebrates 15 Years on O‘ahu
Kapi‘olani Community College has promoted local farmers, launched businesses, inspired other markets and cultivated a deep respect for Hawai‘i agriculture.
Market Specials: 5 Popular Farmers Markets on O‘ahu
Here are some specialty items exclusive to each market organized by the Hawai‘i Farm Bureau Federation.
Experience Old Lā‘ie at the New Hukilau Marketplace
A new Lā‘ie marketplace strives for a nostalgic feel.
Lanakila Pacific Delivers Merry Meals to O‘ahu’s Seniors
Lanakila Pacific is working to make sure that O‘ahu seniors get a little holiday aloha.
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