The Eastside View

travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Well, of course it’s not that simple...

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T HE DISCUSSION CONTINUES re. food costs, quality, and quantity. The issues raised Friday by Julie Powell (see below for web citation) were...
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Saturday, July 23, 2005

The ethics of organic food

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A FEW FRIENDS ASK what I think of an op-ed by Julie Powell in yesterday’s New York Times , “Don't Get Fresh With Me!”. Not much, real...
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Two more plays

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Ashland, Oregon T WO MORE PLAYS to report on here from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We saw Love’s Labour’s Lost night before last, in ...
Friday, July 22, 2005

Sclerotic

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A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH THE EYE puts me in mind of mortality. (Excuse the exaggeration: I’ve been seeing Shakespeare plays.) And then I fi...
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Thursday, July 21, 2005

The Hell you say!

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Ashland, Oregon E IGHT OF US STAY in this house for a week, seeing plays. We don’t always see eye to eye, and yesterday was one of those da...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Amusing deluded glove, rayon

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Ashland, Oregon S O BEGINS — not quite — just about my favorite Shakespeare play, which we saw last night. We saw it a little over a year a...
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Cannelini, or however you spell it

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A can of Italian white beans, a can of good tuna, a red onion sliced thin, a drizzle of olive oil, sage leaves if you remember them. One of ...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

INDEPENDENCE!

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T HANKS TO ALL those heroic farmers, tradesmen, bankers, writers, and seamen who fought and argued and thought so passionately to win our i...
Thursday, June 30, 2005

Authentic Argo

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A friend sends the draft of a paper on authenticity. It relates to something that’s been preoccupying me for a while; let’s call it Separati...
Monday, June 27, 2005

Ascraeumque cano...

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...Romana per oppida carmen. ( Georgics, II, 176) A dear friend urges me, now that I’ve read Cato and Varro, to turn again to Virgil and th...
Friday, June 24, 2005

Frank Lloyd Wright Duplexes

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Frank Lloyd Wright Duplexes Originally uploaded by charlesshere . These duplexes, many now needing a little attention, were built i...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

Mixed use urbanity

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A friend asks me to think about town planning, knowing my enthusiasm for the villages and provincial cities in Holland, where we plan to spe...

Wisconsin architecture, 1

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(Posted hurriedly. Maybe tomorrow or Saturday I’ll be able to finish this, and add some photos.) Here’s the architecture we’ve looked at on ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Downing street in the internet cafe

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It's funny: the cheaper the motel, the more likely to find free high-speed Internet access. Here in Milwaukee we're at a Hyatt, and ...
Sunday, June 19, 2005

Barista at l'Etoile

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Barista at l'Etoile Originally uploaded by charlesshere . This is the barista at the cafe-bakery at l'Etoile in Madison, po...

Friendly people

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That's what they say you find here in Wisconsin, friendly people. And we have, and do. Yesterday morning the bakery-cafe at l'Etoile...
Saturday, June 18, 2005

l'Etoile, Madison: still one of the best

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Dinner last night at l'Etoile, that first-rate restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin. In fact l'Etoile was the reason for making the siza...
Friday, June 17, 2005

Coffee outrage

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What is it with Starbuck's, anyway? What is it with "venti" and "grande"? We had breakfast at Starbuck's yesterd...
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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Another day in Chicago

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Two girls playing bassoon duets on Michigan Avenue. I'd never expected to hear bassoon duets serendipitously, but now I think about it, ...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Meat and Tremont

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Woffa woffa woffa, as we sometimes say when we are particularly satisfied, as having just been dealt a nice hand of cards in a game of heart...
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