THE LEFT LANE
Art through Lakota eyes

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Known for his creative interpretations of traditional Native American symbols, Yellowhawk kicks off a month of Native American events in Hawai'i with an appearance at Native Winds Gift Gallery & Craft Supply in Kaimuki, from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Among the South Dakota artist's most striking works is a piece called "Hanging Loose in Hawaii — A Lakota Aloha." The Warhol-like painting shows four repeated images, colored differently, of a Native American man wearing both traditional Northern Plains regalia and a Hawaiian aloha shirt and fishhook necklace.

"As native people, we have always taken pride in our appearance," Yellowhawk explained in a news release. "So wearing an aloha shirt and a fishhook necklace is like wearing a ribbon shirt and a bone choker. We feel good when we tend to ourselves and reflect our traditions."

How-to guru appears

Christopher Lowell

Lowell is the Emmy Award-winning host of "The Christopher Lowell Show," Discovery Channel's highest-rated daytime show, which airs at 11 a.m. daily. His new program, "It's Christopher Lowell," airs at noon daily.

Lowell's no-frills consumerism, coupled with his decorating smarts, prompted The New York Times to comment about him, "At once cheerleader, drill sergeant and household ham, the frenetically funny Christopher Lowell is poised to parlay his stealth success as a decorating guru-to-the-masses into the next how-to empire."

Lowell will be signing his three books, "Seven Layers of Design," "If You Can Dream It" and "Small Spaces."