High-profile co-hosts Brook Lee and Lanai Tabura are meeting and greeting island celebrities of all types on the new television talk show and podcast “It’s a Hawaii Thing” starting at 6:30 p.m. today on Spectrum Cable Channel OC 16. Read more
Nito Larioza was the stunt coordinator and dance choreographer for “Breakarate” (2017), which premiered May 22 on Amazon Prime. Read more
On Nov. 8, 1957, Pan American Stratocruiser “Romance of the Skies,” carrying 37 passengers and a crew of seven, crashed while on a routine flight from San Francisco to Honolulu. Read more
Kaulana Pakele — Na Hoku Hanohano Award- winning member of Ehukai and the Mana‘o Company — died Monday after he was found unresponsive in the water off Makaha Beach Park. He was 47. Read more
Colorful mask designs have proliferated since March, but Hawaii resident and aloha wear designer David Shepard brought the concept a step forward with masks that match his current line of aloha wear. Read more
The coronavirus pandemic forced Penny Pence Smith to cancel the book release party she had planned for the end of April, but “The Last Legwoman” is now available at amazon.com. Read more
The label’s most expansive project to date is a metal rock saga of intergalactic war between cyborgs and “renegade tech pirates” that took three full-length albums to tell. Read more
Despite the stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus pandemic, 22 Hawaii recording industry professionals still came together to work on a music video, which honors the graduates of 107 schools across Hawaii. Read more
The tune is set to the melody of Lizzo’s Grammy Award-winning pop hit “Truth Hurts.” Read more
The show ended on a bittersweet note when the season’s winner was revealed during the second night of the final episode. Read more
Willie K exploded on the Hawaii music scene in 1991 with the release of his debut album “Kahaiali‘i”. Read more
Eduardo “Eddie” Joaquin’s model gallery is still currently on the floor in one of the rooms of the life-size gallery, which remains closed. Read more
Here’s how graduating seniors are dealing with the disruption of their plans for graduation. Read more
The Haleiwa born-and-raised musician will face off against four other finalists in the last round of the show’s 18th season. Read more
With “Island Beyond the Stars,” Kapena De Lima reveals his love for the classic hapa haole music of the 1930s, and does it in a bold and beautiful style. Read more
Kapena De Lima reveals an entirely different side of his repertoire with his second solo album, “Island Beyond the Stars,” a collection of original songs written and sung in the style of the hapa haole music of the 1930s. Read more
The vocalists and musicians perform a version of the Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo‘ole medley “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”/ “What A Wonderful World.” Read more
Series star Jay Hernandez, who plays Thomas Magnum, shared his excitement about the renewal on Instagram. Read more
Born and raised in Hawaii, the youngest child of pianist Rene Paulo and his wife, vocalist Akemi Paulo, Gail-Anne Paulo was 8 when she joined her older brothers and sisters on stage at her parents’ nightclub, Opus One. Read more
When the curtain goes back up for the Hawaii theater community, putting on a show is going to be a different experience than before the coronavirus crisis began. Read more
Hawaii has been the beat of memorable detectives ever since Earl Derr Biggers introduced quiet but effective Honolulu police detective Charlie Chan in 1925. Read more
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