Honolulu is a melting pot.
I was in sixth grade at Koko Head Elementary School in Honolulu, and was chosen to pin the 50th star on the American flag in front of my teachers and classmates at a special assembly to celebrate statehood.
There's nothing - there's nothing - as action-packed as 'Hawaii Five-O.'
My favourite hotel is the Hilton Hawaiian Village beach resort in Honolulu.
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.
When I was a high school freshman in Honolulu, I would sit with my girlfriends on the bleachers of the school amphitheater every morning. We'd meet in the same spot and chat for an hour before homeroom began.
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.
I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.
My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few 'callbacks' and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!
Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.
