The world's most famous jazz brand set up two blocks from Waikiki Beach. Blue Note Hawaii opened on 14 January 2016 inside the Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort at 2335 Kalakaua Avenue, with Kenny G and ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro splitting the opening run - a pairing that announced the club's double mission of international headliners and Hawaii's own greats. The room took over the showroom where the Society of Seven had performed for four decades, transformed by a 3.5-million-dollar renovatio.....

An emergency became a homecoming when University of Hawaii football moved onto its own campus for the first time in half a century. The Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex at 1105 Lower Campus Road in Manoa opened in 2015 as a 4,100-seat practice, soccer, beach volleyball and track facility, named for the Honolulu developer and philanthropist whose foundation has been one of the university's great benefactors. Its life changed in December 2020, when structural corrosion forced 46-year-old Aloh.....

Rising above the eastern edge of Waikiki, Diamond Head is among the most recognisable natural landmarks in the Pacific, a broad volcanic tuff cone whose saw-toothed rim forms the backdrop to countless images of Honolulu. Known in Hawaiian as Lēʻahi, often translated as "brow of the tuna" for its profile, the crater was formed in a single explosive eruption roughly 300,000 years ago. Its English name came later, from nineteenth-century British sailors who mistook glittering calcite crystals on .....

America's third-oldest continuously operating community theatre performs on the slopes of a volcano. Diamond Head Theatre at 520 Makapuu Avenue in Honolulu traces its lineage to 28 April 1915, when a troupe called The Footlights staged Pinero's The Amazons at the old Honolulu Opera House with a cast of prominent citizens. The Footlights grew into the Honolulu Community Theatre in 1934 - mission: community service through the art of theatre - and in 1952 found a permanent home in the aging movie .....

A short stroll from the sands of Waikiki, the Hard Rock Cafe Honolulu brings the international chain's music-themed dining to the heart of Hawaii's most famous resort district. Set on Beach Walk amid the hotels, shops and restaurants that crowd the area, it offers visitors a familiar, upbeat experience wrapped in island touches, blending the brand's global identity with a distinctly Hawaiian sense of place. True to form, the cafe is filled with rock-and-roll memorabilia, signed guitars, stage o.....

To get in, you walk through a 24 Hour Fitness, up the stairs and across a parking lot toward a glowing sign that still says Hawaiian Brian's - and behind it waits 21,000 square feet of pool tables, dartboards and live music. HB Social Club, at 1680 Kapiolani Boulevard near Ala Moana in Honolulu, is the city's great all-purpose night-out warehouse, operating since the mid-1980s. Locals knew it for decades as Hawaiian Brian's - a billiards hall and dive bar dating to 1983 that settled at the Kapi.....

Spread across some three hundred acres at the eastern end of Waikiki, in the shadow of Diamond Head, Kapiolani Regional Park is the oldest and largest public park in Hawaii. It was established in 1877 under King Kalakaua, who named it in honour of his queen, Kapiolani, and dedicated it as a gathering place for the public, a role it has filled ever since across generations of residents and visitors. The park's broad lawns, towering banyans and shady monkeypod trees offer a welcome expanse of ope.....

The showroom inside this beachfront hotel carried a single act for over 30 years - the Society of Seven did two shows a night, six nights a week - before becoming the Pacific outpost of New York's most famous jazz brand. The Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort at 2335 Kalakaua Avenue in Honolulu is now home to Blue Note Hawaii, the state's premier live music venue. The lineage runs deep: the resort's Main Showroom hosted the Society of Seven from 1969, when the Fabulous Echoes-turned-variety-act ope.....

Stretching along three blocks of Waikiki's iconic Kalakaua Avenue, the Royal Hawaiian Center is one of the largest open-air shopping and entertainment complexes in Hawaii and a centrepiece of the resort district. The complex first opened in the late 1970s and, after a major reimagining completed in the late 2000s, now spans more than three hundred thousand square feet of retail, dining and event spaces gathered into four interconnected buildings. The shopping line-up reflects the cosmopolitan c.....

Stretching for roughly two miles along the southern shore of Oahu beneath the unmistakable profile of Diamond Head, Waikiki Beach is the most famous beach in Hawaii and one of the most visited stretches of sand in the world. Once a quiet retreat of Hawaiian royalty, the area was transformed in the early twentieth century by the construction of the great pink Moana and Royal Hawaiian hotels, the building of the Ala Wai Canal that drained the surrounding wetlands and the gradual rise of the wider .....