Volume 15, no. 4
August/September 2012
Native Intelligence
Departments
Spin City
It's not Ibiza, and that's just fine: Honolulu has an electronic music scene all its own
Saving Celluloid
The team at 'Ulu'ulu aims to preserve every frame of the Islands' visual history
The Astounding, Astonishing Tavares Brothers
Maui's Ernest and Freddie Tavares played with everyone from Harry Owens to Dean Martin to Elvis and engineered instruments that changed modern music
The Ohi'a Hunter
Hawai'i's storied native tree may hold a key to understanding evolution -- and botanist Elizabeth Stacy is out to find it
Steam Dreams
Is geothermal destined to become a major part of Hawai'i's energy future?
Features
Moorea's Ark
The Moorea Biocode Project is one of the most ambitious high-tech scavenger hunts in the history of science. Go inside its final week.
Songs of Kalaupapa
Two of Hawai'i's finest slack key guitarists pay homage to the musical heritage of Moloka'i's isolated colony
Jack Versus the Volcano
As lava took every other house around him, the omega man of Royal Gardens stood his ground
Hawaiian Life
Pauhana