culture

The Thirty Meter Telescope may have been given the go-ahead by the Hawai?i Supreme Court. But there’s still a lot that needs to happen before construction…

The 41st Annual Prince Lot Hula Festival is set for this Saturday and Sunday in a new venue. This event, now at ‘Iolani Palace, is cherished as the…

Math geeks rejoice! Today is March 14 – that’s 3/14, also known as Pi Day. And this Pi Day, Hawai?i math lovers have something special to celebrate.…

Spanish artist Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War is an influential historical record of the human toll of the Peninsular War in the early 1800’s. The…

One of the great pleasures of living in a place, is learning the stories about its nooks and crannies. In HPR’s Hometown collection, we visit places of…

Starting today through Sunday, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is staging a pop up in the old Foodland location at Ala Moana Center.…

Two hundred forty five crewmembers participated onboard the H?k?le‘a in the M?lama Honua Worldwide Voyage, but many thousands more participated from land,…

Cartoons once dismissed as filler or just for laughs, are big business now. Animations can shape our view of the world and now, hand in hand with virtual…

Matthew James combines painting and sculpture in his large three dimensional wall pieces. You can see several around Honolulu now---the largest is a…

Master carver Kawika Eskaran has built canoes, he’s sailed and works with Polynesian navigators and directs special projects at BYU-Hawai‘i. His sculpture…