Cover Story

Best of Honolulu 2009

The Honolulu Weekly staffers behind Best of Honolulu 2009. Pictured are (seated, from left) Lance Motogawa, Colleen Knudsen, Ragnar Carlson, Laurie Carlson; (standing, from left) Laura Quintal, Margot Seeto, Manny Pangilinan, Adrienne LaFrance, Joe Edmon, Krista Maes, Darby Murphy and Kate Paine.




Welcome to our Best of Honolulu issue for 2009. As we have every year since 1992, we asked our readers to weigh on the people, places and passions that make this city go. This year, you responded in record numbers, so in a sense, this is the best Best issue yet!

We hope you enjoy it, and thank you as always for reading Honolulu Weekly.


Text and photography by Ragnar Carlson, Adrienne LaFrance and Margot Seeto. Reader responses compiled by Dwight Melton, Jr. Additional photography by Landon Tom.