If you listen closely, you can almost hear the forbidden sounds of temple gongs and Pahu drums pattering in the background. Glowing tapa lamps and illuminated puffer fish cast an ethereal glow on the ...

Think Tiki music, and you’ll think young. You’ll think hip. You’ll think 20-something guy who buys his vintage flower-print shirts at Ahab Bowen and classic brushed-steel cocktail shaker at Metro ...

“The Book of Tiki,” by Sven A. Kirsten. This urban anthropologist’s look at the cult of Polynesian Pop is great reading and an education for those who didn’t live through the mania in the 1950s. Hula: ...