Most every store in North America seems to be playing the Bing Crosby chestnut “White Christmas” this time of year. But in Hawaii, where the only thing white at Christmas is the sand on Waikiki, ...

Paula Tajiri and her elves from “Christmas Hawaii” are once again setting up shop in the lower parking lot of Ala Moana ...

Storm Large, Portland’s own “genre-fluid big mouth singer,” is once again staging her Holiday Ordeal over two nights at the ...

Performing with the Mākaha Sons for 48 years, founding member Jerome Koko remembers when he first encountered Hawaiian legend Israel “Iz” Kamakawiwoʻole in 1975. “Me and Moon (Kauakahi) was paddling ...

This is the perfect weekend with Christmas and Hanukkah right around the corner along with Boxing Day. We tend to focus on what we will get for Christmas but the point of Boxing Day is sharing with ...

“Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say / On a bright Hawaiian Christmas day” What makes Bing Crosby’s classic Christmas tune (well, the other one anyway) so endearing? At least part of the appeal is ...

The Hawaiian Christmas song has always been a chance to imagine the smell of coconut oil and the breeze from a grove of palm trees during a cold, continental U.S. winter. Jake Owen's interpretation of ...

It has been a stressful and tough past few years, so Hawai’i Self Storage wanted to create a gift of thankfulness and Aloha back to their customers and to the entire community. To do that, they ...

Former “Bush brain” Karl Rove published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal yesterday in which he complained about President Barack Obama’s “odd” decision to wish Americans “Merry Christmas” with ...