The Eastside View

A FRIEND WRITES : Working on a small piece about creativity and was just wondering if you could give me a word, phrase or sentence on what...

Y ESTERDAY I READ A BOOK confirming and explaining the connection I've long felt exists between Netherlands and the United States — a c...

O R: COUNTRY MOUSE , city mouse. For a long time it's seemed to me possible, maybe even simple — too simple, you'll object — to di...

A FTER AN INTERLUDE of a couple of days in Milan, too busy to write, I resume, I hope. If you look at a map of Italy you see at what's ...

Milan, November 1— W E SEEM USUALLY to have incredibly good luck finding places to stay and to eat. In Lanslebourg, wondering what to do fo...

Milan, November 1— W E WERE ESSENTIALLY without Internet connection for the three days after leaving Lanslebourg: hence I have catching up ...

Lanslebourg, Savoie, October 27, 2010— I BROUGHT L INDSEY HERE to show her the valley I'd walked a couple of years ago, when Henry and...

Lanslebourg, Savoie, October 26— T HE LAST TIME I was here I was unimpressed with the area. Not this town, with its comfortable old-fashione...

W E'VE BEEN ON THE ROAD almost a week, but the first couple of days don't really count, of course; you're in the air, your mind...

W HAT AN INTERESTING , classically absorbing evening of dance the other night in Zellerbach Auditorium, UC Berkeley. Mark Morris presented t...

C OMMENTS POSTED RECENTLY to my post of a few days ago, over at Eating Every Day, about a dinner at Oliveto in Oakland, bring to mind a ma...

Ashland, Oregon— W E FINISHED THIS SEASON of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival last night with a satisfying production of Twelfth Night . It ...

Ashland, Oregon— S O MUCH JUSTIFICATION for producing The Merchant of Venice was trotted out by the direction here at Oregon Shakespeare F...

Ashland, Oregon— T HE REPERTORY HERE leans heavily to Shakespeare: after all, this is the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Every year we see at...

Ashland, Oregon— W E'RE BACK AT the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for six more plays, having seen the other five of the season last March...

W E DON'T TAKE that many magazines here; perhaps the only one I read more or less consistently is The Nation . Lindsey's father sub...

I ' VE BEEN READING three books simultaneously: James Joyce's Ulysses , Victor Navasky's A Matter of Opinion , and Michael Milan...

B ECAUSE THE BASSOON was my instrument through high school, and my best friend Merton played oboe, a fascination for the double-reed instru...

D ON'T TALK TO ME about superstitions; I find them too useful to abandon them to the embrace of science. No sooner did I write about Ha...