Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reveler uses a hula hoop to corral a shark marching in the Mardi Gras Parade in St. Louis in 2019. Wham-O patented the hula hoop ...

Joan Anderson, the woman who introduced the hula hoop to the United States and gave it its iconic name, died last month at age 101. Anderson’s daughter, Loralyn Willis, confirmed her death to NBC News ...

A new hula show in Waikīkī brings a centuries-old story home to the very place it began. Just steps from the sacred healer stones of Kapaemahu, “The Return of Kapaemahu” tells a moʻolelo of healing, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — On Hawaiʻi’s famous Waikīkī Beach, a free public hula show has spent the past year telling a story rooted in healing, place and memory. On Wednesday, Jan. 28, the final performance ...

SOLANA BEACH, Calif. (KGTV) — Joan Anderson, the woman who coined the name "Hula Hoop" and helped bring the iconic ring to America, has died at the age of 101 in her San Diego senior home. "It was an ...

MASON, Mich. — In a pastoral campground south of Lansing, many attendees at the Michigan Hoop Dance Retreat were hooping as if their hair was on fire. Then, Missy Cooke’s hair caught fire. Dancing ...