The Eastside View

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

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Four Saints in Three Acts

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Eastside Road, August 20, 2011— W E SAW the Stein-Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts last night in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Ce...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Virgil Thomson on Audience Sensitivity

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F OR NO PARTICULAR REASON except that I just ran across it, while looking for something else, here's a piece I wrote for the Oakland Tr...
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Friday, August 05, 2011

Mount Tamalpais

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Looking east from the Temelpa trail, Mt. Tamalpais T HE FIRST STRENUOUS WALK of the year, far too long delayed: from Mountain Home, on Pano...
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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Early August

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No moon. The crickets or whatever they are sing, mindful of Late Works.
Monday, August 01, 2011

Blue language

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Eastside Road, — I 'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT language lately. No surprise there; language is one of my constant preoccupations. But speci...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Shakespeare at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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Meaning is never monogamous.                                — Susan Sontag Eastside Road, July 28, 2011— W E SAW FOUR S HAKESPEARE plays th...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Kenjilo Nanao

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Eastside Road, July 29, 2011— O N NOVEMBER 8 , 1986, I apparently visited the faculty exhibition of art at California State University, Hayw...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Function of Poetry

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The Function of Poetry For Kathryn A man I didn't know died yesterday His wife the childhood best friend of my daughter. Forty years, th...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

New American Theater at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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Ashland, Oregon, July 24, 2011— I N SPITE OF THE IMPLICATIONS of its name, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has long been a significant prop...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Molière at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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Ashland, Oregon, July 20, 2011— M OLIERE'S COMEDIES ARE ALWAYS welcome, no matter the production. The jokes are always old, always funn...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Ghost Light at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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Tony Taccone, the stage director, artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, has written a play, Ghost Light , which we saw yesterday ...
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Thursday, July 07, 2011

A Day with Picasso

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Eastside Road, July 7, 2011— I N THE SUMMER of 1916, ninety-five years ago, in Paris, Jean Cocteau took two dozen photographs of a number o...
Monday, July 04, 2011

"Writing is like the drug I abhor and keep taking"

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Found something new to read today here in the course of excusing myself for not having recently written. I've been not-reading Pessoa, ...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Venice Journal, 16: Biennale

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Venice, June 18, 2011— A N OLD GUY , apparently shakier than he looks, sits down on the bench to take off his shoes. There seems to be some ...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Venice Journal, 15: Further conversation

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Venice, June 14, 2011— A N INTERESTING CONVERSATION yesterday with the proprietor of a glass shop on Murano. Another couple was in the sho...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Venice Journal, 14: Conversations

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Venice, June 9, 2011— A DAY REMARKABLE for its conversations, flawed by one futility. We set out pretty early on a fine morning, the water...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

Venice Journal, 13: Typical Day

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Venice, June 9, 2011— W ELL, YES, some of you are kind enough to wonder: but what are you actually doing there in Venice? Fair enough: here...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Venice Journal, 12bis: More Loss

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Venice, June 8, 2011— O NE MORE NOTE on the subject of loss: the rhinoceros is gone. We first saw it the day after we arrived, a couple of ...
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