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]
Honolulu’s music scene is thriving, bursting at the frets with a diversity of sounds and influences we haven’t enjoyed in at least a generation. And while that’s largely a product of a new generation of artists making themselves heard, it’s also true that it takes… [»Read]
Later this month, Mohamed Nasheed, president of the Republic of Maldives, will chair the world’s first-ever underwater cabinet meeting. On Oahu, hundreds of students will be let out of school in order to draw a giant chalk line, in blue, through the streets of Honolulu…. [»Read]
I was on vacation when the proposed itinerary for the first-ever Honolulu Weekly Bar Crawl showed up in my inbox. Managing Editor Adrienne LaFrance and Calendar Editor Margot Seeto had hatched this scheme a few weeks prior. The idea was to pile into a cab and take… [»Read]
For many Americans, the elementary school cafeteria is the source of some of their earliest food memories. Bring up school lunch on Oahu and people grow rapturous about brownies and beans with franks. And there was the smell–that slightly sweet aroma of baking buns and… [»Read]
When University of Hawaii law professor Chris Iijima passed away in 2005 from brain cancer, his colleague Mari Matsuda attended a memorial service held in Iijima’s hometown of New York. A number of his former UH students who had since moved East attended as well. “There… [»Read]
On the most basic level, it’s the promise of independence–the realization that with some gas in the tank and the twist of a wrist you can go anywhere you please–that first lures us in. It’s in that spirit that we eventually see our cars as extensions of ourselves (and… [»Read]
Longtime readers may notice that 2009’s Fall Arts edition of Honolulu Weekly is smaller than in years past–there’s a reason for that. Artists and arts-related organizations have taken a huge hit during this downturn. As their patrons cut back, they must cut back–and… [»Read]
On the first page of the first draft of the new Oahu Bike Plan, scheduled to be finalized sometime next month, the authors crank the vision thing about as far as such a thing can be cranked. “It is time,” they intone, “to promote the practice of Kamehameha I’s… [»Read]
On a recent Saturday afternoon at Polo Beach, located on the North Shore of Oahu, adventure abounds. Skydivers descend in a wash of neon-colored parachutes, drifting toward Dillingham Airfield like cascading leaves. Riders on horseback trot along the dirt path separating… [»Read]
This feature aims to explain the fundamental effects of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act–the Akaka bill–currently before the United States Senate. This piece of legislation has the power to shape Hawaii’s future for generations. We’ve done our… [»Read]
