Let’s Talk Food: ‘Sam Choy’s in the Kitchen’ cookbook
KHON2 put out a challenge to their staff to come up with a new local program to air on Sundays at 6:30 p.m. The entire station was involved with collaborating and coming up with different ideas for a new show. This prime time, family/dinner hour show was to create something unique, special, and a destination program to give Hawaii families a fun way to end their weekend and prepare for the week ahead.
Volcano Watch: Potential long-term outcomes of recent intrusions in Kilauea East Rift Zone
The intense seismicity and ground deformation along the East Rift Zone of Kilauea in the past couple of months is interpreted to indicate intrusion of magma. Some of this magma can leak to the surface in eruptions, but there are less likely long-term consequences that have historical analogues.
Steves: A Dutch day trip to Waterland
While Amsterdam’s popularity is well-deserved, travelers who don’t venture outside the city are missing out on some of Europe’s most charming countryside.
The panda factories
WASHINGTON — Two chunky pandas, a male and a female, arrived from China this week at the National Zoo in Washington. If everything goes as planned, they will eventually have cubs.
Burgundy: Bulging barrels, barging and beyond
One of my favorite corners of France is bucolic Burgundy, a region overflowing with imbibable and scenic delights. Crisscrossed with lazy canals and dotted with quiet farming villages, it’s easy to like — and its sunny hillsides produce the superior wines and fine cuisine that say “French.”
She didn’t see other Black hikers. She decided to change that.
INGLETON, England — The women made their way up the narrow stone steps in a winding line, the rolling green fields of the English countryside stretching out across the valley below. The steep climb, which had begun in the early morning, brought them high above an elevated rail line, its imposing Victorian arches rising in the distance.
In Ukraine, small, fluffy dogs offer wartime comfort
KYIV, Ukraine — For two days last month, a vision of canine paradise emerged in the heart of a city regularly pounded by Russian drones and missiles.
The Rhine River: Raging with history
Jostling through crowds of Germans and tourists in the Rhine River village of Bacharach, I climb to the sun deck of the ferry and grab a chair. With the last passenger barely aboard, the gangplank is dragged in and the river pulls us away.
The bold. The beautiful. The fat bear.
Voters have a lot to weigh: leadership qualities, policy agenda, experience. But over the past decade, one race has been defined by the amount of wild salmon that can be smashed into a mouth.
Steves: Iceland’s rugged beauty comes from within
Iceland’s remote location and harsh climate aren’t exactly welcoming. But its striking scenery, draped with glaciers and punctuated by craggy peaks and steamy geysers, makes this destination increasingly attractive to nature-loving travelers.
Viewfinders make fall foliage pop for the colorblind in Virginia
Like so many other leaf-peeping enthusiasts, Tim Yates ventured out to Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake State Park late this summer to see the early whispers of the fall foliage, which would soon give way to bright bursts of orange and red.
A pygmy hippo is stealing hearts (and biting zookeepers)
Defiant, sassy, slippery, chubby, loves to scream. We can all relate.
This fish evolved legs that it uses to taste stuff on the seafloor
The sea robin has fascinated scientists for decades. It has the body of a fish, the wings of a bird and the legs of a crab.
Visit artsy, urban Antwerp
Belgium’s capital, Brussels, is undeniably a great place to get a feel for modern-day Europe. But as the capital of the EU it’s an international hub that doesn’t give you a sense of Belgium per se. My favorite place to feel the pulse of modern Belgium is Antwerp, the port city north of Brussels. It’s an honest, what-you-see-is-what-you-get place with a true sense of local identity.
The power of a smaller breast
The women walk into the surgeons’ offices with photos cued up on their phones. Miley Cyrus. Keira Knightley. Bella Hadid. “I want my breasts to look like this,” they say. They’ve already spent hours on YouTube watching plastic surgeons’ infomercials; on Instagram poring over before-and-afters; and on TikTok, where an army of ordinary women post about their breast reductions. “Ask me,” they say — whether their nipple sensation has changed, what their boyfriends said, whether they cared.
Time travel on Rome’s ancient Appian Way
It’s fitting that it was the expansion-minded ancient Romans who built Europe’s first super highway — they understood the value of good roads to growing an empire. And the Appian Way, begun in 312 BC, was the engineering wonder of its day. It connected Rome with Capua (near Naples), ignoring natural contours and running in a straight line for much of the way. Eventually it stretched 430 miles to Brindisi — gateway to the East — where Roman ships sailed for Greece and Egypt.
Japan tries to reclaim its clout as a global tech leader
China’s envy-inducing success in using industrial policy to expand its economy and finance green manufacturing has helped kick off a fevered scrimmage among nations to develop and protect their own hometown businesses.
Let’s Talk Food: Popping corn
It is believed the first use of wild and early cultivated corn was used for popping.
Norway’s fjord country blends serenity, grandeur
Though I initially came to Norway to visit relatives — three of my grandparents grew up there — nature is the real draw here, even for those with family ties. It’s a land of intense beauty, with famously steep mountains and deep fjords carved out and shaped by an ancient ice age.
Has the spread of tipping reached its limit? Don’t count on it.
Americans are being asked to tip more often and in more places than ever before: at fast food counters and corner stores, at auto garages and carwashes, even at self-checkout kiosks. That has rankled many customers and divided employers and tipped workers.
