Your Guide to the Perfect Weekend in Honolulu: Oct. 16–22, 2025
Learn about space, explore the Queen Emma Summer Palace, chill out to reggae beats, go on an after-hours history tour and more.
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Nightmare on the 21st Floor
Things HONOLULU Magazine's editor learned while trying, mainly failing, to fix up an older apartment.
Unsolicited Advice: Get Squared Away
HONOLULU Magazine editor A. Kam Napier offers some advice to plumbers, electricians, tub refinishers and handymen in Hawaii.
Kakaako's newest pop-up venue: Taste
Taste, a pop-up venue, isn’t a restaurant itself, but a host to new concepts.
Retirement: Planning & Living
Retirement can be the beginning of the best years of your life—but you’ll need a good plan. Use these tips from local experts to start your journey.
Mochi and marshmallows get makeovers
What could possibly make mochi and marshmallows even better? How about chocolate mochi wrapped around a Waialua dark, salted chocolate truffle or mochi sandwiches spread with peanut butter and azuki? Or marshmallows in flavors of salted caramel, lilikoi and raspberry lemon drop?
Gourmet Style
Ingredients for the perfect backyard barbecue: top-of-the-line tools, island-inspired accessories, delicious dishes and great company. Here’s how to get the party started.
Bar report: The Study in the Modern Honolulu
The Study, as a concept, doesn’t hit any home runs … and don’t most people drink to get away from school and studying?
Seven&i Japanese snacks at 7-Eleven
A new line of 11 different snacks and cookies from Japan
First look: Mango Days Sweets Cafe
This mango-centric cafe has mangoes for days
UH Manoa Senior Fashion Show
University of Hawaii at Manoa hosted Zeitgeist, a student fashion show featuring designs by the following Apparel Product Design & Merchandising Program seniors: Breanne Lee, Jenna Sato, Kitti Kurokawa, Bejan Moers, Mari Nakamura, Patricia Clariza, and Jazmine Nakamura. For Lei Chic's highlights and review, click here.
New: Rinka, a Japanese restaurant in Honolulu
The menu is long, at turns comforting (spicy pork hot pot) and unexpected (abalone croquette). Sushi and sashimi is skippable.
