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Award-winning poet Noʻu Revilla casts a spotlight on themes of desire and intergenerational healing in Ask the Brindled.

Because the Aloha Spirit is not a free pass to act like an ass, here's how to visit Hawaii responsibly and support locals.

The once-thriving Chinatown felt stagnant as a gradual and steady loss of businesses took its toll. But two years of strife have inspired art anew.

This week in Honolulu: Eat delicious Girls Day treats, enjoy an exhibit by Hawai‘i artists, explore a canoe festival and take Mediterranean cooking classes.

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio will join a virtual launch event with Native Books on Friday, October 1 for a discussion of her new book, REMEMBERING OUR INTIMACIES.

Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. We deliver big-picture science by reporting on a single monthly topic from multiple perspectives. Read a new chapter in the story every Thursday.

    History often pulled up a chair at Jane Marshall Goodsill’s dining room table. As a girl, she would sit and listen as her father, prominent attorney Marshall Goodsill, and mother, Ruth, chatted with the myriad guests they welcomed within their Vladimir Ossipoff-designed walls. (The Ossipoffs were dear friends, by the way.)   Her book, Voices of Hawai‘i, feels just like an invitation to that table, with the opportunity to eavesdrop on Goodsill’s conversations with more than 70 peop...

5:25 Jan Harada, Executive Director of the HT Hayashi Foundation; Trisha Kehaulani Watson, President of the Kalihi Palama Culture and Arts Society   Island Insurance Foundation on supporting arts and education Dana Tokioka is President and Executive Director of Island Insurance Foundation, which gave away close to $900 thousand in 2020, including seed funding for the new Downtown Art Center. Under Danas leadership, the foundation also bought the house for Lee Catalunas play at Kumu Kahua last ...

The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her ninth collection, Ledger, is forthcoming from Knopf in March 2020. She has edited and cotranslated books with Mariko Aratani and Robert Bly. Hirshfield’s honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Literature, the Bay Area Book Reviewe...