The Eastside View

Lichen on a live oak on the Joe Rodota trail east of Sebastopol O N SATURDAY NEXT — in only two days now! — I'm joining more than a hun...

E NDLESS, THE TYPOGRAPHICAL errors that creep into a job of musical typesetting. I wrote these three little pieces nearly fifty years ago, u...

setting up the concert in the Berkeley Museum J UST THREE SHORT NOTES tonight — it's late; my eyes are glazing. But I have to mention: ...

I F YOU REMEMBER the 1960s, the saying goes, you weren't there: I remember them, and I was. What I don't remember is a lot of the 1...

I WROTE ABOUT the magnificent opera Einstein on the Beach here a few weeks ago, after seeing the premiere of the present production in Mon...

Eastside Road, May 4, 2012— A   NUMBER OF YEARS AGO , on waking up in a friend's little guest cottage in a quiet back garden in Berkeley...

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...