The Eastside View

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...

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...

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...

No moon. The crickets or whatever they are sing, mindful of Late Works.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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 ...