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The owners of Encore Saloon, The Daley and Pizza Mamo win Restaurateurs of the Year at the 2021 Hale ‘Aina Awards.

Want Hawaii To Be Less Dependent On Imported Food? Change Your Diet - Honolulu Civil Beat Want Hawaii To Be Less Dependent On Imported Food? Change Your Diet Hawaii will never be a big producer of wheat or rice, but there are plenty of homegrown alternatives. The first time Dana Shapiro cooked breadfruit, she wasn’t terribly impressed. Shapiro bought one of the hard, football-sized fruits at a farmers market on Kauai, left it out overnight on her kitchen counter, and was surprised to find it soft and mushy the next day. To salvage the fruit, she baked it with butter and brown sugar and serv...

Mothers of Reinvention From the moment Honolulu shut down in early March 2020, restaurants and bars have valiantly swiveled to counteract the pandemic’s effects. We have had a dazzling choice of takeout (with spots such as Senia turning it into a high art), chef kits (Pai Honolulu had a creative series), and premium produce (MW Restaurant sold farmer friends’ goods). But some are reinventing the integral idea of what a restaurant is. Alejandro “Aker” Briceño, the former Nobu Honolulu pastry chef who was part of the pioneering eateries V Lounge (where he introduced the city to Neapoli...

Katherine Don, E.D. of Hawai'i Contemporary, discusses the Hawai'i Art Summit 2021   Art today is not separate from life and that's the point, according to Katherine Don, Executive Director of Hawai'i Contemporary. "You know, contemporary art, and the way Hawai'i Contemporary is thinking about art, it's not art for art's sake, says Don. "Art is a language for communicating  change. Whether we're about climate change, or social justice or other relevant issues, these artists are thinking about it too."   The focus of Hawai’i Contemporary’s Art Summit is to introduce themes curators are...

The 2021 Ola Pono Award Winners Volunteers are a vital part of Hawai‘i’s nonprofits—every year, hundreds of thousands of them donate their time and talents to keep our communities moving forward. During this time, we have needed these dedicated people more than ever not only to assist, but to inspire us. We found them in a woman who has been an advocate for the voiceless for decades, a husband-wife team that turns compassion into action and a young woman who began her battle against bullying in middle school. January 19, 2021 The Tireless Advocate Nanci Kreidman moved to Hawai‘i as a ...