When I went to Hawaii looking for the real hula -- something more authentic than "I'm just a little brown girl in a little grass skirt in a little grass shack in Hawaii" -- I hardly expected to find ...

When Kamaile Hamada found out last June that his group had been accepted into the world’s most prestigious hula competition, the first person he wanted to tell was his former hula partner, Sweetie ...

She is everywhere, the iconic image of a hula dancer -- in a grass skirt and bra top made of coconut shells, with hips that shimmy frantically to a ukelele song. We see her in Disney movies, in pseudo ...

HONOLULU – Walk along the shops in Waikiki and it isn't hard to come across vendors selling knickknacks of a fake Hawaii — no, the Aloha State doesn't have wild monkeys or parrots. Lei aren't plastic ...

(AP) HONOLULU -- Coconut bras aren't Hawaiian. Neither are grass skirts. Tiki bars? They're from California. Yet they're all among the most recognizable symbols of a Hawaiian vacation. Now, many ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii - Walk along the shops in Waikiki and it isn't hard to come across vendors selling knickknacks of a fake Hawaii — no, the Aloha State doesn't have wild monkeys or parrots. Lei aren't ...

Antique picking has become one of my newest hobbies, but finding tiki cups and nudie cards from Hawaii’s past at dealers’ stalls in California are reminders of how unscrupulously Hawaii has been ...

An irresistible Japanese import, “Hula Girls” is a crowd-pleaser so comfortable with its own clichés that it goes down smoother than a mai tai on Maui. Though ...

The Annapolis-area residents sing, dance and chant with near-flawless rhythm and cadence, displaying traditions and cultures from America’s only island state. They are members of one of the hula ...