March 2021: Table of Contents
March 1, 2021
Anthony Consillio took this portrait of a masked man walking through sunlight and shadows in a Bethel Street parking structure in June 2020. Photo: Anthony Consillio
What Just Happened?
We asked seven experts from diverse backgrounds for an analysis of how we’ve done so far as a city, state and people in our handling of the pandemic and where we need to go. Start reading on the cover, then continue on page 32.
During a time of upheaval, everyone experienced life through a different lens. For a look beyond the images imprinted on our memories of long lines, barren store shelves and empty roadways, we asked our readers to share the pictures they took during the past year.
February 2021: Table of Contents
February 3, 2021
This Benjamin fig tree at Roosevelt High School is one of more than 170 named exceptional trees on O‘ahu. Photo: Aaron K. Yoshino
On the cover: The kapok at the Department of Agriculture on King Street. Photo: Aaron K. Yoshino
The Giving Trees
We are losing city trees in a time when we need them more than ever. Can Trees for Honolulu’s Future, Treehooo! and new initiatives for urban forestry save us? Plus, learn more about five exceptional trees in a photo essay by photographer Aaron K. Yoshino and editorial director Christi Young.
Painting of Princess Ka’iulani
Princess Ka’iulani was the last heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. When she was 13, her mother died, and she was sent to Europe to finish her education. In 1893, Ka’iulani was 17 when the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom occurred. There were pleas from Ka’iulani s father and Sanford B. Dole, the provisional president of Hawaii, to end the takeover of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Queen Lili’uokalani was convinced her best chance at justice for Hawaii was to temporarily relinquish ruling authority to the United States. Ruling power was never returned to Hawaii s constitutional monarchy.
The History of Hawai‘i: “Gone Are the Days of the Old Hotel-By-The-Sea”
Back in 1955, an affordable if sketchy rental in Waikīkī was bulldozed to make way for “progress.”
December 24, 2020
For 133 years HONOLULU Magazine has kept its readers and advertisers at the vanguard of fashion, insight and fun. Starting out as Paradise of the Pacific
in 1888 with a commission from King Kalākaua, we’re the oldest continually publishing magazine west of the Mississippi. Here is a look into our archives.
“Gone Are the Days of the Old Hotel-By-The-Sea,” bemoans
Paradise, marking the destruction of the last vestiges of the old Castle estate near the Elks Club, an affordable if sketchy rental that was bulldozed to make way for “progress” in Waikīkī.