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Hana Hou! Issue 26.2

February - March 2023
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A Wave and a Prayer

Bethany Hamilton’s Beautifully Flawed Retreats give women with limb difference a chance to ride.

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Aloha Goes Both Ways: Chef Chung Chow

This episode features chef Chung Chow, co-owner of New York City’s Noreetuh restaurant.

artwork of poke bowl deconstructed by ingredient.

An Anatomy of the Imagination

Artist Lauren Trangmar is in her driveway, checking on a pan of coffee cherries she picked off a friend's coffee plant.

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Cloud Forest

Most herbaria around the world-facilities that preserve plant specimens-are hermetically sealed, with museum-quality storage and displays.

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Connecting Flight

We share the Hawaiian skies with some of the rarest winged creatures: iiwi, akepa, elepaio, apapane and omao.

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Dancing through the Dark

Honolulu Classical Ballet’s pandemic journey.

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Family Forward

For Regina "Lola" Miller and Alexis Akiona, fashion and family run together.

five people in gardening attire work outside with Hawaiian mountains in the background.

Growing Community

Not far off the highway along O'ahu's Leeward shore, a drive past open fields leads to a compound. A farmhouse? Store? Restaurant? Some kind of residential hall or school?

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Medicine Game

For Hawaii’s lacrosse players, the sport is as much about community as competition.

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Shooting Giants

Cinematographer Mike Prickett has made a career of filming the world’s largest waves and the surfers who ride them.

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The Olelo Patrol

Word on the Street is fixing Hawaiian-language errors one street sign at a time.

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The Road Retaken

At the Ulu Laau Nature Park in Waimea on Hawaii Island, Clemson Lam is getting ready for the sixth graders.

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The Song Keeper

The littlest ones are really getting into it.They spin and bounce in the Honolulu Museum of Art's grass courtyard.

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The Waa Goes to London

Outrigger canoe paddlers from nineteen countries converge in Great Britain for the World Sprints.

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Waves of Fortune

Sure, it’s a cliché, but clichés are often true: Perseverance pays off.