The Eastside View

T ODAY CHEZ PANISSE is thirty-five years old, and what do you see here but a photograph of... not Chez Panisse, but Jojo , a favorite resta...

M OZART INHABITS A MIDDLE WORLD where beauty surges in and ebbs away, where everything is contingent and nothing pure, where, as Henry James...

Robin Goodrin Nordli, Rex Young: Roxane and Christian L AST TIME AROUND I wrote about the four Shakespeare plays we saw last week in Ashla...

W E SAW NINE PLAYS last week, in our annual trip to Ashland with three other couples: . King John . Two Gentlemen of Verona . The Winter’s ...

The Mohave Desert THE GLORIOUS FOURTH dawned with the scent of distant rain; we took our breakfast in the hotel dining room; we packed and s...

Summer, 1944. We had been driving from Flagstaff or thereabouts, at the speed limit -- 35 mph -- and it was hot and dusty. Below us lay the ...

R ESONANCE IS AN OVERUSED word, and that's too bad, because I do like resonance. I like the kind that set in when, a week after taking ...

The Rio Grande at Embudo Station T WO ROADS LEAD TO TAOS from Santa Fe: the slow high road through Tesuque and the highway along the Rio Gr...

A room at Las Golondrinas I 'VE BEEN READING Harvey Fergusson's history of the Rio Grande valley -- sorry, Deborah; I'll send i...

Galisteo: the old cemetery G ALISTEO IS AN OLD TOWN twelve or fifteen miles southeast of Santa Fe -- a very old town, now hardly more than ...

fourth day, Green River-Durango, Mesa Verde Colorado D URANGO SEEMED LIKE a nice town. Moab is too Twentysomething Sportminded; Cortez is t...

The "Cliff Palace," Mesa Verde L ET'S SEE, NOW, how long has it been? I'm a week behind, and things that seemed important...

Lindsey looks over the San Rafael seabed T HE COUNTRY CHANGES once you leave Delta, Utah, driving east on Highway 50 -- "the loneliest...

Austin, Nevada T HE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS, as I understand it, were built a day's journey apart -- a day by foot and mule, of course. The...

Sand Mountain, Nevada T HE EYE LIKES CONTINUITY-- continuity of line but also continuity of grain, and when it cannot have continuity it tr...

Reno, June 22 The drive is a familiar one: down 101 to Novato, across the Black Point cutoff past Mare Island, onto highway 80 at the improb...