While we may not all be master gardeners trained in plant science and horticulture, many home gardeners find growing food to be an addictive hobby that’s sort of a cross between arts and crafts and sports. The fringe benefits are nice–maybe a pretty landscape, some exercise… [»Read]
“Small business dominates our economy here,” says Jane Sawyer, the Hawaii district director of the Small Business Administration. Hawaii may be famous for its large number of public employees, but Sawyer says when it comes to the private sector, we go small. Really… [»Read]
As the civil unions debate keeps our attention focused on questions of fundamental equality in the erstwhile “Aloha State,” recent reports on hate crimes in Hawaii raise questions about how committed local officials are to applying existing laws designed to protect… [»Read]
In 2010, it’s all about pop art. Settle down, Andy Warhol, we don’t mean you–this year, we looked around for the media that speak directly to everyday life. From the visual idioms of Mumbai to the epic sagas of Chinese theater to auntie’s lauhala hat and the food… [»Read]
Remember 2009? Long gone, now. The same is true for the first five days of 2010. They’re over. The moment you started reading this sentence? That’s never coming back either. Transience is the nature of existence, and like it or not, loss is inherent to the experience… [»Read]
ay back when MTV actually played music, music videos changed the way kids listened. Style and good looks began to trump substance, talent and experience. It’s rumored that Jon Bon Jovi had a contract clause that stated any member of the group would be fired if they became… [»Read]
No news may be good news, but good news is definitely worth sharing. Here are a couple of reasons Honolulu has to smile–including the highlights of the year in your own words. [»Read]
Rep. Mazie Hirono’s office in the Longworth House Office Building is 4,500 miles from most of her district. Add the fact that Hirono seems to be the only politician in Hawaii not running for a new office next year and you have great a recipe for “I wonder what’s… [»Read]
After improvement at the beginning of the decade, some key social indicators show that things are starting to go the other way for Hawaii’s teenagers. Teen pregnancy is on the rise, the state’s teen idle rate–which measures dropouts who aren’t working–is among… [»Read]
When the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled three years ago that the public shoreline extends to the seasonally highest wash of the waves, many saw it as a sign that wealthy coastal landowners would no longer be allowed to extend their yards onto the beach. They were wrong. Despite… [»Read]
It’s five o’clock on a recent breezy Monday evening in Kapiolani Park. The setting winter sun will soon turn everything a brilliant, postcard gold–the banyan and ironwood trees, the freshly mowed grass, the faces of something like 100 homeless men and women standing… [»Read]
Imagine an elevated concrete train viaduct rising from abandoned sugarcane fields just east of Kapolei and barreling through Waipahu, Pearl City and ‘Aiea, past Pearl Harbor and the airport and into downtown. It shadows the length of Dillingham Boulevard. Nimitz… [»Read]
For years, Hawaii environmentalists have been complaining that the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, which the New York Times editorial page has described as “notorious among environmental groups as a chronic enabler of reckless commercial… [»Read]
The rain season arrived this week, just in time to save our Winter Books issue from hitting the streets in 90-degree weather. Suddenly, it’s curl-up-under-a-blanket time, the best time of all for books. As we always do, we’ve focused this year on books of local interest,… [»Read]
Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand. Grisly ghouls from every tomb crawl out of Manoa Cemetery–wha?!? No seriously, this city is a veritable urban sprawl of horror. Live here long enough and practically everyone you know offers up a ghost… [»Read]
