Under Angel's Wings

They were two halves of a whole. For 54 years, Ed and Shirle Draper laughed together, traveled together, volunteered together and raised two sons together.

Clackamas County events roundup: library programs, games, concerts

Welcome to a new week and my roundup of events happening this month and next in Happy Valley, Milwaukie, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, West Linn, Wilsonville, Sandy, on Mount Hood, and in other locales in Clackamas County.

First Listen: Leonard Cohen, 'Old Ideas'

Old Ideas contemplates mortality in the bitter light of failed romance. It fearlessly broaches emotional extremes while still dropping the wisdom of an elder who should know better.

Clackamas County and Southwest Portland events roundup: concerts, dancing, games

Good morning Clackamas County. Check out my roundup of events happening this month and next in Happy Valley, Milwaukie, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, West Linn, Wilsonville, Sandy, on Mount Hood, and in other locales in Clackamas County.

Minnesota Opera appoints Michael Christie music director | Artscape

In Minnesota, the arts are news. We care when the Minnesota Orchestra earns raves for performances at Carnegie Hall, when the Penumbra Theatre has to trim its season, when the director of the shiny new Cowles Center resigns after 10 months, when the Southern Theater implodes over mismanagement of funds, when Frank Gehry adds new galleries to the Weisman , when the governor names a poet laureate ...