When Varsity Theater closed last year, that left Doris Duke Theatre as the last art house standing. Honolulu Academy of Arts film curator Gina Caruso (pictured here) is going full steam with innovative programming. On Feb. 8 she launches Friends…

The Garden Isle is still a country cousin compared to the other three major Hawaiian Islands and its signature festival, the Mokihana Festival, is practically a backyard hoedown compared to Oahu's extensive and extremely crowded Aloha Festivals. The weeklong fest…

Editor's note: This is an article I originally wrote for Scouting Magazine in 1999. It was a lot of fun to research and write. On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Scouts from Troop 451 moved in single file along a…