Exposure Photography Exhibition, Collidiscope, King Britt, Honolulu Night+Market, Showdown in Chinatown, The Green and a Tiki-themed night at Mercury

A new music festival took over the parking lot of CoXist studio in Kakaako Saturday evening, with food, drinks, music and dance

Max Vangeli, Kings of Spade Tribute to Guns N’ Roses, Three Walls Music Festival, Legion of Boom with Big Sean, Pimpbot’s Tour Fundraiser Party, Michael W Smith and grad parties galore

From lowriders to tamales, sombreros to salsa dance, the streets were packed for the annual Cinco de Mayo street festival, with crowds eating, drinking and dancing

We hit the happening spots on First Friday to bring you photos of the art and lively scene on the streets and in the clubs

First Friday, Think Pink: Tantriq Jay’s birthday, Cinco de Mayo Street Festival & Chinatown Get Down, LCC’s L’ulu Culinary Gala, Nas and more

Chicago house DJ Colette got The Republik dancing to a funky, feel-good set on Friday

Empty Bowl, Eat the Street: Bacon, ARTafterDARK, Spam Jam, DJ Colette, 80s Pop Muzik: Hollywood Prom, the UH Manoa Senior Fashion Show and more

CoXist’s new art exhibit highlights the radical, utopian vanguard ideas of young architects from around the globe

Fans crowded NextDoor Friday night for a live show by Virgin Mary, Jookbox City and Kings of Spade

The first Barter Bar at Fresh Cafe was an interesting experience in the trade of professional services and goods without money

Barter Bar, Kings of Spade, Prevail’s EP Release Party, Honolulu Night+Market, SOJA, 5th Element with Aly & Fila, Hawaii Geek Meet 2013 and Zine Night

Canadian indie rock/new wave band Metric made their Honolulu debut at a sold-out show at Republik Saturday night

The Boys came out to party with their friends at Pearl for the huge annual Boys’ Bunch April Foolish FUNdraiser for the Make a Wish Foundation

Taste of Marukai, RAW Showcase, the Hawaii Ocean Expo, Metric, Sunset Room’s Closing Party with DJ Ewan Pearson and Katchafire, Common Kings and Rebel Souljahz

An inside scoop on openings, closings and what’s new in the Honolulu nightlife/bar and club scene

We hit the happening spots for April’s First Friday, including Ong King, Downbeat Lounge, The Loading Zone, the Chinatown/Mendonca Courtyard and Chinatown’s busy streets

The spring networking professionals mixer at Pearl brought out a diverse crowd of hundreds of professionals from all industries looking to connect with each other

Nextworking, HawaiiSlam Grand Slam Finals, HIFF, First Friday, Dropkick Murphys, 2013 Polo Season opening

The Hawaii bartenders who made it through the three preliminary rounds went head-to-head on Tuesday night in a test of skill, speed, originality, personality and creativity

The second annual “Future is the Past” steampunk-themed fashion show and night brought all sorts of elaborate alternative fashion out to Bar 35 Saturday

The second Elements at the Modern started off with a poolside fashion show and moved over, later in the night, to The Study and Addiction Nightclub

Eat the Street: Japan, Elements at the Modern, SoHo’s final party, Pentatonix, Digital Wonderland, ’80s Pop Muzik Steampunk fashion show and the Iron Bartender Finals

Honolulu’s Yelp staff threw another crazy fun Yelp Elite party on Wednesday evening at the CoXist Studio in Kakaako

Gypsy Frequencies at The Venue was a special one-off night of bellydance, tribal electro and exotic neo-world-beats

French electropop duo Reflex made their Hawaii debut Friday at Nextdoor with a fun, trippy, out-of-this-dimension show

Cherry Pop Revue launch party, Passport to Luxury and Shop-a-lea, Reflex, Black Star, Livewire Beach Party, Prometheus Brown & Bambu and more

Thousands of revelers dressed in green packed the streets to celebrate at the 26th annual St. Patrick’s Day Block Party, hosted by Murphy’s Bar & Grill in Chinatown

CONTRAST Magazine, Super CW and DJ Compose hosted March’s Bacardi Pool Part at The Modern’s upstairs Sunset Pool

We were there for the opening day of Kawaii Kon, the huge annual anime and cosplay festival at Hawaii Convention Center