The Eastside View

Eastside Road, October 29, 2011— I T'S TOO LATE to tell you about it; the show closed today; but the work of Gordon Cook has found its ...

Eastside Road, October 21, 2011— The San Francisco Bay area has long been one of the most significant American locales for painting, certain...

Eastside Road, October 9, 2011— L OTS OF RESPONSE in the blogsphere, in the media, even in conversation, about the death last week of Steve...

San Jose, California, September 23, 2011— W E VIRTUALLY NEVER visit this city, the largest in the Bay Area, the third-largest in California...

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...