It’s a bad pun to say that hula is hip, but in the hands of Patrick Makuakane, it couldn’t be truer. Makuakane, director of the San Francisco-based hula group Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, has organized flash mob hulas in the Castro and on Hawaiian Airlines flights. His dancers perform what he calls “hula mua” — Hawaiian dance accompanied by non-Hawaiian music. Read More