It’s a surf contest where your creativity and costume count just as much as your surfing ability. Register to paddle out or watch the spectacle from shore, then enjoy face painting and DJ beats while ...

Beyond the pumpkin patches, trick-or-treating and keiki costume contests, Halloween is also the ghoulish, fiendish, favorite ...

Walk with costumed pups in support of the Hawaiian Humane Society, hear Hawaiian stories, see a nostalgic play and more.

After more than a century of publishing fiction, poetry, book reviews and author profiles, we launched the HONOLULU Book Awards three years ago to recognize achievements in our thriving literary scene ...

More than three years after closing its Kalihi taproom to move to Mililani, Paradise Ciders is back near town. Its new location near Honolulu International Airport is both a taproom, opened in late ...

Dishes on our tables narrate their own stories. They point to the land and oceans they came from, the cultures that shaped them and how they evolved (or didn’t). In ways subliminal and telling, the ...

From top left: beef carpaccio, Pork Ribs and Dragon Eggs, soft-shell crab pasta, seafood ceviche. Photo: Aaron K. Yoshino The menu at Chao wraps in dishes that lean conventionally Vietnamese and ...

Catch the excitement of keiki longboard competitions, outrigger canoe races, a youth volleyball tournament, plus a dog surfing contest at this ocean sports festival. Find everything from baby gifts ...

Walking into Mānoa Chocolate’s cacao-scented store always gives me a Willy Wonka vibe, with the staff offering free tastes of homegrown chocolate. Now, there’s a new reason to go: A just-expanded café ...

*Expansions and newcomers that opened at Midtown Eats this year include Aloha Sugarcane, Boba Bing, K Park Bar, King Thai, Mangiamo Gelato, Middle Eats, Ms. Nguyen, Ninja Sushi, Sadie’s BBQ, Serg’s, ...

Café Miro, Kaimukī; the restaurant on Wai‘alae Avenue has closed, but Miro Kaimukī – The Counter remains open with prix fixe dinners ...

No, you’re natto dreaming. Natto fans who missed out on tickets to Frolic’s sold-out Natto Day Dinner at Koko Head Café have a wealth of gooey specials awaiting them. From natto salmon bentos and ...