November 2012: Table of Contents

Features

911 for the Life Aquatic

When whales get beached or entangled in fishing lines, when dolphins wash ashore or a baby monk seal is found abandoned—who you gonna call? The Marine Mammal Response Network.

by david thompson

Hawaii’s Most Endangered Historic Places

The Historic Hawaii Foundation, the state Historic Preservation Division and HONOLULU Magazine compile an annual list of some of our state’s most endangered sites.

by kathryn drury wagner

Where You Wen Grad?

Oh, high school. Is there any other time in our lives for which we’re so nostalgic, and yet so glad is over? We combed through almost 100 years’ worth of Hawai‘i yearbooks to find what’s changed about the local high-school experience, and what’s stayed exactly the same.

by michael keany

Honolulu in 1888

This feature is a time machine: Step inside to see and hear what daily life was like 125 years ago, when HONOLULU Magazine was first published.

by lavonne leong

Departments

Editor’s Page: Looking Back

As far as 1888, when this magazine was born.

by a. kam napier

Feedback

Our readers respond.

Calabash

1, 2, 3, grow!

Get out and go. 

The Architecture Center opens.   

Unsolicited Advice  

Going Pono      

The Outdoor Circle Turns 100      

Horse Sense        

Field Notes: Ladies Night at Aiea Bowl                

HONOLULU Shops

Cheese and wine accessories, top model Leilani Bishop, packing for cold weather and yoga-inspired goodies.

by stacey makiya and brie thalmann  

Dining: The Hawaiian Plate: Explained

Kalua pig, lau lau, lomi salmon, poi: How the now classic Hawaiian plate lunch came to be.

by martha cheng

From Our Files

HONOLULU Magazine and Paradise of the Pacific—chronicling the Islands since 1888.

by maria kanai

Afterthoughts: Rear View Mirror

Objects of the past may be closer than they appear.

by michael keany