The Eastside View

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

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Road trip

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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. ...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Three Plays at A Noise Within

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

The Critic

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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...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Snake and Seagull

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The two short-season plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this spring are Chekhov's Seagull and Mary Zimmerman's The White Snak...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Only a Messenger

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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...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Hotel blues

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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...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Einstein at the Berlioz

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Montpellier, March 17, 2012— My old friend John Rockwell said it well, years ago: “Einstein was like nothing I had ever encountered. For...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Where we've slept recently

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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...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Localinguists

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Hotel Bristol, Luxembourg, March 11, 2012— Historical Luxembourg. Red: present-day Luxembourg; two blue areas at bottom: lost to France; blu...
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Thursday, March 08, 2012

Le Château

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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,...

Back to the bus

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 Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles, Vianden, Luxembourg, March 8, 2012 Y ESTERDAY , AFTER HAVING WALKED eighty-five kilometers on the GR-5 from S...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Painting and pannekoeken

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Evolution of stegosaur to elk: Children's mural on retaining wall, Welchershausen, Germany Oberhausen, Belgium, March 5, 2012— W E STAYE...
Sunday, March 04, 2012

Lost and found

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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,...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Why Belgium?

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bunker in the distance, field near Burg-Reuland Burg-Reuland, Belgium, March 3, 2012— I' VE NEVER REALLY understood the point of Belgiu...
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Friday, March 02, 2012

Tramping in the Ardennes

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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...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Pleasures and proprieties

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 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...

All we like grass…

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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...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Dutch interior

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