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Our first list—50 Essential Hawai‘i Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime—was one of our most popular stories ever, but it didn’t do justice to our flourishing regional literary scene. So here we go again: More of da kine, only bigger, broader, deeper.

Quietly forceful, Joey Hamasaki was an Ala Moana beacon. Respected and championed by surfing's more referenced players of the 1960s and 70s.

Longtime Rincon regular Simone Reddingius checks all the boxes for a surfing life well lived: musician in a surf band (The Wrinkled Teenagers), artist, longtime Hawaii resident, competitive surfer and

The plain-spoken Weber, who now owns a tire store in Lihue, Kauai, was one of the most brilliant surfers of her era. But you would never know it today.

These influential wāhine and their achievements in Hawaiis history paved the way for all Hawaiian women, as well as women around the Pacific! Source: Hawaii Magazine 1. Queen Emma Photo: Wikipedia In 1859, Queen Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke established Queens Hospital to save the rapidly declining Native Hawaiian population, providing free services to those suffering from foreign-introduced illnesses like smallpox and influenza. In 1867, she founded The St. An...

The Maui surfer girls love each other's hair. It is awesome hair, long and bleached by the sun, and it falls over their shoulders straight, like water, or in squiggles, like seaweed, or in waves.

World Surf League is acknowledging International Women’s Day this year in a very cool way: celebrating inspirational women in sports history.

Thirty seasons at G-Land, but none like this.

As an optimist, passionate filmmaker, writer, and musician, Leah Dawson derives her passion in life from her love for surfing and her relationship with the ocean. She focuses on creating positive media that empowers, educates, and inspires viewers to recognize the influence of community and the importance of living in harmony with nature and each other. She feels responsible to nurture the female surf culture, and to encourage a growing community of women to express themselves with their innate ...

Covering 40 years of surf culture, Australian writer Phil Jarratt rides a wave of nostalgia seamlessly from the 1960s to recent times, from one side of the Pacific to the other, from the cold Southern Ocean to the warm Java Sea, from Bali to Biarritz and many points in between.