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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MID Wales will never have seen anything like it before: hundreds of scantily clad young farmers, hips gyrating provocatively beneath grass skirts. MID Wales will never have seen anything like it ...