John Heckathorn has the best journalism job in the state. The editor of Hawaii Magazine gets to fly around the islands and, well, just do stuff. Here's a slide show of pix his photog took from a recent jaunt to…

But they mean it in a nice way. Ian Lind pointed out this Chicago Tribune piece covering the rainy (well, not as much as you think), sleepy burg on the eastern side of the Big Island. The article compares…

Hawi is hard not to like. It's an old plantation town, an end of the road kind of place that few tourists visit full of colorful locals and Mainland dropouts who fell in love with the windswept vistas high in…

If you’ve been to a wedding or other semi-formal event in Hawaii during the past nine years, chances are that you’ve seen a whole season’s worth of Cinnamon Girl dresses, and for good reason. The company’s sweet, feminine designs are…

If you’re like me and you want to get a headstart on your holiday shopping (because the malls are going to be crazy this year, my friends), you’ve probably done a lot of browsing on the Internet. Shopping online is…

Wandering around Hilo a decade ago, I walked into this hippy-dippy, cozy little shop right on the main shopping drag fronting Hilo Bay. I was entranced by the bright bolts of colorful Japanese and Chinese fabrics and the exqisitely basic…

I stumbled upon this gallery in the massive resort in Waikoloa on the Kona-Kohala Coast of the Big Island when I was visiting this past weekend. It's packed with art, some of it cheesy but a lot of it…

Where: Lobby Bar at the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort Why: Do you really need to ask? If you must, the endless blue Pacific pulsing against a black lava landscape and the sea caves of Keahou Bay, kaleidescopic sunsets like…