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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Haumana, or students, of Keali'ika'apunihonua Ke'ena A'o Hula practice under the direction of kumu hula Leimomi Ho, left, at St. Augustine Church in Waikiki. The halau has been performing free hula ...

For many of us, hula conjures up visions of slender Hawaiian women in leafy skirts, coconut bras and plastic leis. Think Blue Hawaii, a 1961 Elvis movie, or the Brady Bunch's ill-fated trip to the ...

The turn is the latest sign of a Native Hawaiian renaissance The misconceptions come from the way Hawaii is marketed and presented to outsiders Many of the images can be traced to the arrival of tiki ...