Talk about your rare bird alert. A giant crow has alighted in Lane County, where it has landed a role in the Eugene Ballet Company production of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen.” For now, the bird is roosting at…

The Persian poet Rumi told a version of the ancient story of three blind men encountering an elephant for the first time. In Rumi’s telling, the three men, not blind but each holding a small, dim candle, meet in a dark…