This year’s Hawaii Food & Wine Festival includes an event showcasing the ladies of the culinary and agricultural worlds, including pastry chef Joanne Chang, owner of the wildly popular Flour Bakery + Café and Meyers + Chang in Boston.

With hundreds of sakes to taste, the annual Joy of Sake was already a draw. Now with its change in venue — the event will be held in the spacious Pier 2 Cruise Terminal by the Aloha Tower Marketplace — it makes this the biggest sake tasting held outside of Japan. Imagine that.

It took more than $50 million and four years to finish a comprehensive renewal of the Halekulani — and finally, this week, the massive facelift was done.

Ate too much at that barbecue on Memorial Day — and still feeling it now? Torch 800 calories an hour — and in air conditioning — at a new studio in Kaimuki that focuses solely on spinning classes.

Known for its functional-but-chic casual handbags, the New York-based LeSportsac is teaming up with a local artist to create an exclusive print that reflects the romance, beauty and nostalgia of Hawaii

Happy Hour Hawaii, a new website and app, lists the most up-to-date information about happy hours at restaurants and bars across Hawaii

A popular restaurant and a high-end hotel in East Honolulu are offering their version of a Fourth of July barbecue, with food and drinks right on the ocean

Open in January 2012, Lumeria Maui is a luxury educational retreat center in the charming artsy town of Paia on Maui. It offers classes, programs and retreats in yoga, meditation and watersports

There’s a difference between luxury and ultra-luxury. Consider a limousine versus the 2012 Rolls-Royce Ghost EWB. That’s the concept behind Albatross Transport, a new chauffeur company on Oahu offering some of the world’s most luxurious vehicles in its fleet