Anyone who attended grade school on Oahu is more than likely to have memories about field trips to the Bishop Museum and its Hawaiian Hall. Most will remember the “big whale” most vividly, the massive sperm whale that has hung from the ceiling for many years. Others… [»Read]
Thirty-two years ago, after three decades of runaway development, Oahu adopted the General Plan for the City and County of Honolulu. The document set out, for the first time, an overall strategy for directing future economic and population growth while preserving open… [»Read]
Bruce Inglangasak scans the gleaming white coastal plain with expert eyes. He’s searching for caribou. Spring has finally come to the Arctic and the animals are starting to make their way down from the mountains. The villagers of Kaktovik greet the change in season with… [»Read]
Diane Koerner travels with an oxygen tank in the trunk of her car, all the windows rolled up and the air conditioning on recirculate. The Big Island resident, who suffers from severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, takes such precautions because smelling the herbicide Roundup… [»Read]
A suicide epidemic has soldiers killing themselves in record high numbers. Some months this year saw more American soldiers die by suicide than in combat. Hawaii has sent a vast number of troops to Iraq–more, at times, than any other state. Now, with a flood of soldiers… [»Read]
In 1836, three transplanted Bostonians with offices on what would become Merchant Street unveiled the Sandwich Islands Gazette and Journal Of Commerce, Honolulu’s first newspaper. Since then, more than 1,000 different papers have served Hawaii, the overwhelming… [»Read]
He is arguably the highest-profile gay man in Hawaii. The owner of the legendary Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand has been an active member of the community for almost 42 years and is responsible for the Rainbow Film Festival, as well as being one of the most influential advocates… [»Read]
Anné Au wears a lot of hats. No really, she wears hats a lot. The founder of Rock Shop was wearing a hip Castor-style number when we met a couple of months ago for a conversation that led to Au’s joining the Weekly as our occasional Style columnist. Rock Shop,… [»Read]
Welcome to Food & Drink 2009, our fifth-annual exploration and celebration of the industry, indulgences and imbibe-ables that make up the local gustatory scene. In honor of that milestone, we approached chefs, bloggers, bartenders and others and asked each of them a different… [»Read]
It all starts with a popularity contest. Maybe that’s why state politics can seem more like they’re taking place in a high school lunchroom than at the capitol building. There’s the cliquish mentality, the petty arguments, the backstabbing, the broken promises–these… [»Read]
When people say the debate over the Waikiki Natatorium has been raging their entire lives, they’re not exaggerating. Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of the 82-year-old World War I memorial’s closure, and the tug-of-war over whether to demolish it has raged for even… [»Read]
This is supposed to be the heart of the book publishing season, but as summer arrives, our bookshelves are unusually bare. The struggling economy has hit home in local publishing houses just as it has throughout our economy, and offerings from local authors and on local… [»Read]
Last Friday, a state House-Senate conference committee concluded its negotiations on three bills dealing with the holding and release of prisoners. All three had the support of leading local criminologists and advocates for prison reform in Hawaii, and all three… [»Read]
Whether it’s “I’ll have a hefeweissen, please,” or “eh brah, I like one Heineken,” beer brings people together almost no matter what their cultural backgrounds. Whether to exchange critiques on dissertations over a pint (or two) of microbrewed… [»Read]
For most of his life, Daniel Pauly has been ahead of the curve, and it’s not a pretty one: it’s the curve showing the myriad ways in which our oceans are dying. Until 2001, the statistics compiled by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)… [»Read]
