When I was a kid, my mom’s go-to dessert recipe was pineapple upside-down cake. She used canned pineapple—just like every ...

While Hawaiʻi doesn’t experience dramatic seasonal changes, there are still plenty of ways to feel the holiday spirit ...

Kauaʻi is home to local businesses and artisans whose products make memorable gifts. From punny chocolate to exquisite ...

It may be hard to believe, but there are certainly signs winter has arrived in Hawaiʻi. On Oʻahu, you know it’s the holiday ...

HAWAII Magazine reader “C.C.” wrote us to ask how she could make one of her favorite Hawaii snacks at home. Do you have a recipe to make poke? My husband and I love to eat the version of it made with ...

Although most of the items you find in Waikiki or other tourist centers in Hawaii say “Hawaii” on them somewhere, most are not actually made in Hawaii. The grass skirts you see came from the ...

Kailua, the once-sleepy community on Oahu’s Windward Side, is most often associated with its beaches. And we get it. Kailua and Lanikai beaches are world-renowned, luring thousands of visitors every ...

The list of celebrities who regularly vacation or film movies in Hawaiʻi is long and varied, from Adam Sandler to Emma Stone to Beyonce. Then there are the ones own homes in the Islands, too: Oprah ...

A doorman takes a deep breath and blows into a conch shell as guests enter the lobby of the Coco Palms hotel into a sea of pandemonium. It’s 1957 and the cast of “South Pacific”—178 actors and ...

Beginning in the 1850s, as the sugar industry grew and plantations began to multiply throughout Hawaii, plantation owners—many tracing their ancestry to English and American missionary families—began ...

With its origins shrouded in mystery, the shaka has become one of Hawaiʻi’s hallmark gestures. The base concept is simple: extend your pinkie and thumb while curling your pointer, middle and ring ...

Manta rays are big business in Kailua-Kona, where local outfitters estimate some 80,000 people come to snorkel and dive with them each year. The manta tours are done nightly, where big spotlights ...