Culture

For the last five decades, recordist Jim Metzner has dedicated his life to sound. Everywhere from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of New York to panda habitats in Tibet and Jupiter’s intense radio storms, he leaned in to listen, sharing much of what he heard on his long-running radio series, Pulse of

Hawaii celebrated a hard-earned milestone this past June: For the first time in state history, zero young women under the age of 18 were incarcerated. The achievement is the result of years of effort to transform the juvenile justice system — and the state’s only youth correctional facility along with it.  The sprawling, 500-acre Kawailoa

Willem de Kooning’s famed painting “Woman-Ochre,” estimated to be worth around $160 million, has had quite the journey over the years. On the morning after Thanksgiving Day in 1985, the artwork was ripped from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA). It remained missing for three decades — finally resurfacing in

If you had a hammer, you could hammer in the morning, as the old song goes. But what would you do if you had 10,000 hammers? You’d open a hammer museum, of course. At least, that’s what collector Dave Pahl did in his tiny town of Haines, Alaska.  Small and unassuming — aside from the