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Posted on: Wednesday, April 16, 2003

THE LEFT LANE
Wearable gardening

Advertiser Staff and News Services

An unusual project has emerged from the University of Hawai'i-Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources: It's a comprehensive guide to creating a lei garden, covering 85 different materials. Contributors to "Growing Plants for Hawaiian Lei" (UH-CTAHR, oversize paper, $20) are a who's who of lei-making gardening in Hawai'i, from lei makers Bill Char and Marie McDonald to plant specialists Heidi Bornhorst and the late Beatrice Krauss.

The book is very gardener-friendly, with one plant for each two facing pages, including photo, common and scientific names, information on its natural setting and a guide to growing and lei use. Articles discuss the importance of preserving Hawai'i's natural lei materials and offer a general guide to island gardening. Lei-making demonstrations using plants featured in the book are set for 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Borders, Ward Centre, and noon to 2 p.m. April 26 at Borders, Waikele. Available in bookstores or from www.ctahr.hawaii.edu.

Reaching for a 'Star'

Kaitlin Kiyan, a veteran of several stage productions here, is in Los Angeles to appear on CBS' "Star Search" at 7 tonight. You can register your support, but since the show's taped and delayed, you'll need to go to www.cbs.com/star between 2 and 3 p.m. today, when the site is activated, to make your vote count.

Her parents, Paul and Carol Kiyan, say she will perform "Paper Moon." Her voice teachers are Betty Grierson and Mary Gutzi.

A member of Diamond Head Theatre's "Shooting Stars," Kaitlin will be in this summer's revival of Lisa Matsumoto's "On Dragon Wings."

Material of the girl

Madonna's "American Life" album has been in lock-down status at Warner Bros. for fear of its getting out on the Internet before its release Tuesday. But today, that all changes when it hits the MTV.com Web site for a program called "The Leak," where the entire album can be heard online until its release date.

It's all part of the campaign to build buzz about the release, a task that got tougher after Madonna decided to delay the premiere of the video for the title track indefinitely because of images that could be seen as distasteful against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. She will perform the song on MTV, though, on Tuesday.

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