The Eastside View

Eastside Road, April 25, 2012— A S THE PREVIOUS POST indicates, we were down in Pasadena over the weekend, seeing plays at A Noise Within. ...

Pasadena, April 22, 2012— A WEEK LATER, and still thinking about Seagull . Two nights ago we saw Illusion , Tony Kushner's adaptation ...

I know a critic — tedious man — Who'll tell you everything he can. He knows of course "why Henry Moores Are always full of aperture...

The two short-season plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this spring are Chekhov's Seagull and Mary Zimmerman's The White Snak...

Eastside Road, March 30, 2012— B ACK FROM A TRIP to find in the mail a new novel by an old friend whom we see too rarely, Sumner Carnahan...

Park & Suites Ëlegance la Ciotat, La Ciotat, France, March 18, 2012— W E HAVE DRIVEN , in the last week or so, about 1500 kilometers, cr...

Montpellier, March 17, 2012— My old friend John Rockwell said it well, years ago: “Einstein was like nothing I had ever encountered. For...

Hôtel Du Puy d'Alon, Souillac, March 14, 2012—   I T OCCURS TO ME I've written nothing about the hotels. We've stayed in a lo...

Hotel Bristol, Luxembourg, March 11, 2012— Historical Luxembourg. Red: present-day Luxembourg; two blue areas at bottom: lost to France; blu...

Vianden, Luxembourg, March 8, 2012 U P PAST THE WALL and to the Château today. The Romans built a fort up there late during their Empire,...

 Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles, Vianden, Luxembourg, March 8, 2012 Y ESTERDAY , AFTER HAVING WALKED eighty-five kilometers on the GR-5 from S...

Evolution of stegosaur to elk: Children's mural on retaining wall, Welchershausen, Germany Oberhausen, Belgium, March 5, 2012— W E STAYE...

From Google Earth: the forest in which we were lost today Oberhausen, Belgium, March 4, 2012— W E CHEATED A BIT yesterday — you see Curtis,...

bunker in the distance, field near Burg-Reuland Burg-Reuland, Belgium, March 3, 2012— I' VE NEVER REALLY understood the point of Belgiu...

Vielsalm, Belgium, March 2, 2012— W ALKING, STROLLING, RAMBLING : those are all very nice. But it occurs to me today that what we're doi...

 Epen, February 28 , 2012— T HIS HAS BEEN  a particularly nice stay, the last couple or three days in our beloved Netherlands — as always, I...

Epen, February 28, 2012 On yesterday's ramble through the fields along the river Geul we came upon a poem engraved on a tablet set out i...

Epen, Feb. 27,2012— W E VISITED AN ACQUAINTANCE yesterday in her twostorey brick bungalow set among oaks, beeches, and birches in a semirur...