November 2018: Table of Contents

November 5, 2018

Site Staff,

Climb into the cockpit of a T6 Texan during Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum’s annual Open Cockpit Day. Learn what else you can do at Honolulu’s museums IN OUR NOVEMBER COVER STORY.

Photo: Olivier Koning.

Features

Insider’s Guide to Honolulu Museums

Sleepovers, picnics, rare evening tours, reenactments in a cemetery—Honolulu’s museums offer more than just exhibits. Here’s what you didn’t know about intriguing archives and experiences at local museums large and small.

by JAMES CHARISMA, ROBBIE DINGEMAN, JAYNA OMAYE, KATRINA VALCOURT, DON WALLACE AND CHRISTI YOUNG

Boki’s Beans

It’s one of Hawai‘i’s most coveted crops, but do you know how the coffee plant made its way here? The roots of Kona coffee stretch back nearly 200 years to a tragic trip across the Atlantic, an imaginative Hawaiian governor, a British grower and a café.

by EDWARD D. MELILLO

Calabash

November Picks

Mark your calendar for a lineup of comedy, concerts, fashion, film and more happening this month.

By MARISA HEUNG

Hidden Gems From the Kalākaua Era

This emerald-and-garnet necklace is fit for a queen. But the story of how it traveled through the hands of as many as three queens (and possibly a czar) has local museum experts hunting through history.

BY christi young

Da Meter

Gauging what’s hot and what’s not in Honolulu.

BY HONOLULU MAGAZINE STAFF

Hurricane Spares—and Strikes

Maybe we should hang on to all those emergency supplies we bought earlier, because it could be climate change is opening a fast lane for hurricanes to hit O‘ahu.

BY don wallace

Quote Unquote: Kamakani De Dely

As one of Hawai‘i’s few bomb disposal technicians, Kamakani De Dely puts his life on the line defusing unexploded military ordnance. But outside of his day job, he builds costumes, prosthetics and visual effects for shows such as Marvel’s Inhumans and Hawai‘i Five-0 and for OnceFound FX, the state’s first special effects and makeup studio and supply store, which De Dely founded.