Cheap Food Hawai‘i: Your Guide to ‘Ono Meals and Killer Deals in Honolulu
Good food doesn’t have to cost a lot.
Don Wallace
8 New Treats to Try at the KCC Farmers Market This Summer
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.
Did Honolulu Just Have Its First-Ever Shark Attack?
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 Your Film Festival Fix at HIFF’s Spring Showcase With These 9 Movies and Docs
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.
Book-Lovers All Over America Can’t Get Enough of Hawai‘i’s New Genre Writers
These aren’t your grandmother’s romances, kid sister’s sword-and-buckler fantasies or Michener middlebrows.
Buyers Claim 49 Dollar Fares as Southwest Airlines Jump-Starts First Routes to Hawai‘i
“Party flight!” But are there any seats for the rest of us?
36 Gourmet Comfort Food Dishes in Hawai‘i That’ll Warm Your Heart and Soul
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.
Thrifty Rich Locals: The Best Money Advice for Each Decade of Your Life
A handy financial checklist to guide you through every stage.
#LuckyWeLiveHonolulu: 33 Money-Saving Tips, Life Hacks and Savvy Shopper Steals
For all those thrifty rich locals living their best lives in Hawai‘i.
How 4 Savvy Locals Who Weren’t Born Into Money Manage Their Finances in Hawai‘i
How they’ve made it, saved it and are passing it on.
O‘ahu in 1937: Hawai‘i’s Barefoot Football Season Opener Draws 15,000
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.
The Green Room Keeps Bringing the World’s Best Environment Writers to Honolulu
Here’s Why You Won’t Want to Miss Richard Powers on Feb. 6.
Sharkbusters: 6 Ways Humans Have Tried to Avoid Shark Attacks
Over time, people have tried an impressive range of tactics to repel sharks. But do they work? Not well enough ...
35th Hale ‘Aina Winner: Herringbone Waikīkī is Hawai‘i’s Best New Restaurant
Top of the seafood chain: Fish fanatics found piscatory paradise at Herringbone Waikīkī.
5 Great Local Books to Give This Christmas
Give local tidings and joy while supporting Hawai‘i writers, publishers and bookstores—and your friends’ and family’s reading habit.
Insider’s Guide to Honolulu Museums
46 cool things to try at O‘ahu’s museums.
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 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.
HONOLULU Staff Favorites: Movies and TV Specials to Stream Online This Christmas
Holiday movies and shows to binge-watch this Christmas.
HONOLULU Staff Favorites: 14 Christmas Songs That Put Us in the Holiday Spirit
Have yourself a merry little playlist.
Spares—and Strikes: Climate Change is Opening a Fast Lane for Hurricanes
Maybe we should hang on to all those emergency supplies we bought earlier.
Field Notes: You Don’t Have to be Rich to Ride with The Honolulu Polo Club
Field Notes explores Honolulu’s vast and varied scenes and subcultures.
Film Review: Last Taxi Dance Swings, Connects and Frightens at the Same Time
The potent dramatization of Chinatown’s WWII role servicing the military via paid affection feels like a game changer in locally sourced film production.
New First Friday Brings Major Arts and Music Mojo Back to Chinatown
Headliners include fashion designers, local and Maoli artists, live music, burlesque, art installations, a movie premiere and a Dia de los Muertos sugar mask pop-up.
