Features Shark! on the cover: Photo by Ocean Ramsey. Shark attacks have spiked 56 percent over the past four years. Folks on O‘ahu and the Neighbor Islands are nervously asking why. HONOLULU dives deep to find out what’s going on, and…
Features The Sour Poi Awards On the cover: Ramen from Lucky Belly, one of this year’s Hale-‘Aina-Award-winning restaurants. Photo by Steve Czerniak. Celebrating the best of the worst of 2015—the strange, the stupid and the scandalous. by michael keany and robbie dingeman Vegan Dates…
Features The Everything Guide to Local Chocolate On the cover: Photo by Steve Czerniak. Chocolate cake from the Alley Restaurant at ‘Aiea Bowl. Chocolate drizzled by executive chef Shane Masutani. Hawai‘i is the only U.S. state that grows cacao commercially, and…
ON THE COVER: FOREVER MOVING LIKE THE OCEAN, YET, ROOTED IN RICH HISTORY, HAWAI‘I FASHION DRAWS INSPIRATION FROM ITS PEOPLE, CULTURE AND NATURAL BEAUTY Mauka: TOP AND PENCIL SKIRT, CUSTOM DESIGNS BY ALLISON IZU SONG. MEREDITH HANH TATUM RING, $97, SPIKE RING, $74, RICHES KĀHALA, KĀHALA MALL,…
Features Facing the Silver Tsunami On the cover: Photo by Aaron Yoshino. Model: Diane Lee. A wave of graying boomers will change the way we live and age in the Islands. No surprise, we’re finding our own ways of facing the…
Features The Zippy’s Seniors Club On the cover: Photo by Odeelo Dayondon, lettering by Elizabeth Baddeley, hand cast by Dr. Thomas Kane of Kane Orthopedic Institute, hand model: Matthew Ing. Growing old over the decades: alone, with loved ones, with the…
Features Carmageddon On the cover: Honolulu’s traffic is second-worst in the nation. Is it ever going to get any better? Photo: Aaron Yoshino Honolulu traffic is the second-worst in the nation. How did it get this bad? And is there…
Features State of the Arts ON THE COVER: You know what they say about building on sand. Graphic artist Matthew Tapia created our “Best of Honolulu” logo, and photographer Aaron Yoshino captured the impact of waves on words. Further styling by…
Features ON THE COVER: The lunch grilled catch at livestock tavern, one of the best new dishes in town. photo: Steve czerniak Summer Reads Summertime seems the right time to plunge into a stack of books, whether we’re lying on…
HONOLULU Magazine scored big at this year’s Pa‘i Awards, given by the Hawaii Publishers Association.
Features ON THE COVER: Honolulu's a crowded place—and an expensive place. who owns all this? photo: cameron brooks 808 ON WHEELS These days, it seems like just about any service you can think of is mobile. Meet a few people…
Features On the Cover: “Grading the Public Schools” illustration: Boyoun Kim Homeless in Honolulu The Aloha State now has the highest number of homeless per capita in the nation. What are we doing to help the individuals and families living…
On the cover: You want it? A general store probably has it. Check out the full feature on page 54 in the magazine. Photos: Steve Czerniak Features Spring Fashion: Hello Dolly Get dolled up in spring’s hottest trends: bold stripes,…
On the Cover: Primal offering porchetta dinner served family-style at Hale ‘Aina Award-winning The Pig and the Lady restaurant. Photo: Steve Czerniak Features The Sour Poi Awards Celebrating the best of the worst of 2014—the strange, the stupid and…
What’s inside the December 2014 issue of HONOLULU Magazine.
On the Cover Promotional image courtesy of the Dole Pineapple Archives at the Hawaiian Collection at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library. Custom lettering by Matthew Tapia. Features Cannery Tales For years, working at the pineapple cannery was…
Features On The Cover: Koko Head Café chef Lee Anne Wong gets a nuzzle from a Shinsato Farm piglet. Read more about her in the Restaurant Guide. Photo by Mark Arbeit. Styling by Cathy Chun. Photo retouching by Michael Brittain.…
Table of contents from HONOLULU Magazine's August 2014 issue.
Reader feedback for Honolulu Magazine.
Changes in our behind-the-scenes team.
Best of Honolulu Once again, we asked for your help finding the tastiest food, the chic-est shopping, the hottest entertainment, the most helpful services, and everything from the yummiest pancakes to the best jewelry repair. Here are the top reader…
SPJ Award-winning stories covered everything from UH football to same-sex marriage.
HONOLULU took home honors for stories on topics ranging from the International Marketplace to the Special Session on Same-Sex Marriage.
Off The Charts We asked some of Hawaii’s top doctors for their most amazing tales. We got stories that include surgery sans anesthesia, a mysterious malady that only affects malihini surfers and a doctor who raised the alarm on a…
