History

In 1888, when Hawaii was still a monarchy, King Kalākaua

Kalakaua

Kalākaua, born David Laamea Kamanakapuu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua and sometimes called The Merrie Monarch , was the last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaii...

 commissioned a magazine under royal charter to be Hawaii's ambassador to the world. That magazine was Paradise of the Pacific. For nearly a century, Paradise of the Pacific promoted local business and tourism by assuring citizens of the United States that the Islands were civilized. Noted contributors to Paradise of the Pacific included Henry B. Christian

Henry B. Christian

Henry B. Christian was a painter who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and first visited Hawaii in 1908. He made frequent trips between Minnesota and Hawaii before setteling in Honolulu. Christian was art director of Paradise of the Pacific...

, Helen Thomas Dranga

Helen Thomas Dranga

Helen Thomas Dranga , who is also known as Carrie Helen Dranga, was a painter who was born Carrie Helen Tufts in Oxford, England. She lived in Oakland, California from 1894 until 1900, when she moved to Hilo, Hawaii. Her paintings regularly appeared on the cover of Paradise of the Pacific...

, Arman Manookian

Arman Manookian

Arman Tateos Manookian was an Armenian-American painter. He was the oldest of three children born to a Christian Armenian family in Constantinople. As a teenager, he survived the Armenian Genocide. Manookian immigrated to the United States in 1920, at the age of 16, and studied illustration at...

, and Edwin North McClellan

Edwin North McClellan

Edwin North McClellan was a United States Marine Corps officer, author, and historian. He was the first director of the Historical Section of Headquarters Marine Corps, a historigraphical organization now known as Marine Corps History Division....

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In 1966, Paradise of the Pacific became HONOLULU Magazine. Honolulu shifted its focus to news and features aimed at an affluent residential audience. It covers dining, culture, arts, politics, entertainment in and around Honolulu and throughout Hawaii. Today, Honolulu is among the handful of publications in the U.S. that have chronicled the events of an entire century. It is the oldest magazine in the state of Hawaii.

Honolulu is also known for its annual dining awards called the Hale Aina Awards

Hale Aina Awards

Hale Aina Awards are Honolulu Magazine's annual dining awards. The Hale Aina Awards are voted on by magazine readers and subscribers and published annually in the January issue of Honolulu....

. In 1984, Honolulu established its Hale Aina Awards as the Islands’ first local restaurant awards. Before then, culinary awards in the Islands had only been given by Mainland travel interests.

Since 2004, Honolulu has held a photo contest which is open to all photographers and asks them to submit photos they've captured of Hawaii throughout the last year.

Honolulu is also known for its annual statewide fiction contest, though the last contest took place in 2006.

Its parent company is PacificBasin Communications which is a part of aio Hawaii family of companies. PacificBasin Communications also publishes Hawaii Business Magazine

Hawaii Business Magazine

Hawaii Business Magazine is a Honolulu-based business magazine. Its parent company, PacificBasin Communications, also publishes Honolulu Magazine, Hawaii Home + Remodeling, Island Family, Ala Moana magazine, Hawaii magazine and Japanese language visitor publication Hawaii Ai...

, Hawaii Home and Remodeling, Hawaii Magazine, Island Family Magazine, Lei Chic, Whalers Village Magazine and Ala Moana Magazine.

See also

• SMART Magazine
  SMART magazine
  SMART Magazine was launched in April 2005 as a Hawaiian fashion, beauty and lifestyle publication. The magazine was published bi-monthly and is sold throughout Hawaii and was also available for online subscription...
  
   was launched in April 2005 as Hawaii
  Hawaii
  Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
  
  's fashion
  Fashion
  Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
  
  , beauty
  Beauty
  Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture...
  
   and lifestyle publication.

Further reading

• Hawai'i Chronicles: Island History from the Pages of Honolulu Magazine. Edited by Bob Dye. 1996, ISBN 0-8248-1829-6
• Hawai'i Chronicles II: Contemporary Island History from the Pages of Honolulu Magazine. Edited by Bob Dye. 1997, ISBN 0-8248-1984-5
• Hawai'i Chronicles III: World War Two in Hawai'i, from the Pages of Paradise of the Pacific. Edited by Bob Dye. 2000. ISBN 0-8248-2289-7