Honolulu's Chinatown is celebrating "the Luckiest Day of the Millennium," 08-08-08, in a big way, with special events in the galleries and restaurants. At Louis Pohl Gallery, see paintings by local artist Vernon Rieta, who grew up near Chinatown and was the eighth child in his family of one girl and seven boys. He incorporates red as the color of good fortune, and yellow, also an auspicious color in the Chinese tradition, to introduce feng-shui concepts. Rieta was a student of the late Louis Pohl, and Pohl's widow, Sandy, owns the gallery.

— Paula Rath

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