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Photo caption: Environmentalists encourage people everywhere to honor the planet during Earth Week, a virtual celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 20-25, 2020. Credit: Kristian Fagerström, FlickrCC. Dear EarthTalk: Now that Earth Day is 50 years old, I’m wondering how it originally started and whether the Coronavirus put a damper on […]
Bravo! Vancouver Chorale Sings Rachmaninoff
On Saturday, March 23 at 7:30 PM, the 60-voice Bravo! Vancouver Chorale performs Solemn Vespers—or Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye as it is known in Russian—by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The concert is held at St. JosephChurch, 400 S. Andresen Road, Vancouver. A virtuoso pianist and concert artist who toured throughout the United States from 1918-1943, Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) as a […]
Foul play in the Rose City
The City of Roses has a long and honorable history of crime and corruption, starting as far back as the post-Civil War frontier days, leading into the mobster-infused decades of the twentieth century when prohibition, prostitution, gambling, and hard drugs besieged the town. The so-called “Great Portland Vice Scandal of 1956-57” spilled into national politics, […]