Your Guide to the Perfect Weekend: March 31–April 6, 2021
Spread art-felt joy, search for sticky eggs and snack on small-kid kine treats.
March 31, 2021
April 3 and 4, 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
It’s hunting season. No, not the type that requires a wascally wabbit. Well, maybe, if he’s the one hiding the eggs at Our Kaka‘ako’s Free Easter Egg-cellent Scavenger Hunt. Keiki, and adults, will use a map with hints to find festive egg decals located on building walls on Auahi, Keawe and Cooke streets. Hoppy-go-lucky hunters can also take pics with the Easter Bunny, snap up some goodies for their pets and stop by participating shops to receive stamps on their maps that are redeemable for sweet treats at The Barn at Salt. For more of a challenge, attendees who are 18 years or older can hunt for Easter words featured on the hidden egg decals and use them to spell out an Easter passphrase, which is needed to enter a drawing for dinner at 1938 Indochine valued at $150.
6 Takeaways from Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s First Major Speech
Plans to reduce rail costs and homelessness while modernizing government echoed his campaign themes.
March 16, 2021
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi outlined plans to reduce homelessness, work with private landowners to boost affordable housing and close the $3 billion shortfall on the city’s long-overdue and over-budget rail project in a speech March 15.
The former television executive and coach, who takes pride in not being a career politician, kept his talk tight. The speech ran nine pages, about a third of it devoted to the city’s new leadership team and employees. At under 22 minutes, it’s likely the shortest edition of the speech since the tradition began. Then-Mayor Jeremy Harris delivered the first one in 1994. Similar to his campaign, Blangiardi focused more on ideas rather than specific details about major policy changes and initiatives.
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9 Ways to Celebrate Galentine’s Day With Your Gal Pals in Honolulu
Because it’s only the best day of the year.
February 12, 2021
On Feb. 13, Leslie Knope (played by Amy Poehler) and her favorite gal pals from the sitcom
Parks and Recreation leave their husbands, boyfriends and partners at home to celebrate one of the best things in life: friendship. Galentine’s Day is all about ladies celebrating ladies. Even though the fictional holiday falls on a Thursday this year, here are 10 ways to spend your much-needed girl’s day or night out (or in) with your ladyfriends. Because we all know girls run the world.
Your Guide to the Perfect Weekend: February 10-16, 2021
Get into art, share love, celebrate shave ice, bake and enjoy the holiday.
February 10, 2021
Navid Najafi will perform during ‘Ohana Day as part of the 2021 Virtual Art Summit. Photo: Courtesy of Hawai‘i Contemporary Art Summit.
Free with registration
Listen to keynote speakers, artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i and around the world known for educational programming focused on art and ideas. They include multi-generational local arts and creative practitioners Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, the founders of Piliāmo‘o and ‘Elepaio Press, and Nikkya Taliaferro, Moanalua High School senior and executive director of Hawai‘i for Black Lives, musician and activist Navid Najafi, joined by international artists, filmmakers, performers and thinkers including Ai Weiwei, Theaster Gates and Homi K. Bhabaha. This new event by Hawai‘i Contemporary, formerly the Honolulu Biennial Foundation, and the Hawa