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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A grass skirt, also called a hula skirt, is a traditional part of the dress worn by hula dancers on tropical islands. A grass skirt, also called a hula skirt, is a traditional part of the dress worn ...

(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 ...