Portland State Magazine Winter 2012

Throughout their relationship, Chris and Stephanie Gabriel (both 2011 graduates) have been making sweet music together-literally. From meeting in a Hilo (Hawaii) High School performance class to teaching their two children to sing and play instruments, music has been central to their lives. The couple took a huge musical leap forward his fall. They opened a school, Musikhaus, in Portland's Goose Hollow neighborhood where they offer lessons to children in guitar and Hawaiian ukulele. WE T about your books and recordings and your future exhibits, performances, and directing ventures. Contact the magazine by emailing psumag@ pdx.edu , or mailing Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751 , Portland OR 97207-0751. DIANA ABU-JABER Conveying the passion of pastry BAKING IS A DARKER ART than most people know. Sweet and comforting desserrs have their indulgent, even hedonistic, side in some bakers' kitchens. English professor Diana Abu-Jaber, whose books have received critical acclaim since her debut novel, Arabian Jazz, was exposed co the emotional side of restaurant baking when she profiled a pastry chef for the Oregonian. Now, her forth novel, Birds ofParadise (WW. Norton, 2011), focuses on a fami ly with a mother who's an elite pastry chef consumed with beauty as she deals with her runaway daughter. 6 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE WINTER 2012