The Eastside View

“ T HE THREE DOMINANT statesmen in the main member states [of the European Coal and Steel Community, the early predecessor formed in May 19...

Eastside Road, November 21, 2012— I AM NOT READING enough these days; no question about it. It's mostly because I have been writing an...

…I want to be rid of it! Please! You seem ashamed of your inner book? Not at all. It's just that I don't want to become a… a… …I do...

In flight, november 6, 2012— T WO DAYS, THREE PLAYS . Three very different plays, in two quite different venues. We began Friday night with ...

… THE NOTION THAT art and life are somehow separate has worn out. Dewey argued, and the Barnes demonstrates, that art focusses and intensi...

Los Angeles, November 1, 2012— W E RETURNED ON SUNDAY to Einstein on the Beach , and I have no reason to write much beyond my earlier enthu...

photo: The Willits News I met Don Cobb in 1967, when the soprano Carole Bogard sang his Crazy Jane Songs at the Cabrillo Music Festival on ...

Canfield in Mills Pavilion. (Pauline's white head in audience, lower right.)        Photo: Lindsey Shere Eastside Road, October 7, 2012...

A NOTHER QUICK REPORT : another concert last night at Mills College, this one celebrating two epochal birthdays: John Cage's hundredth; ...

J UST A QUICK COMMENT on the play seen last night, Other People's Money, a comic oleo, I think you could call it, on a very topical su...

Eastside Road, October 1, 2012— F OUR AND A HALF years ago I abandoned a project here, a little survey of the eighteen string quartets comp...

“ T HE SOUNDS OF FORGING could be heard coming from every corner of the village — the three-beat rhythm of the hammer swingers striking met...

“ T YPICALLY AN ETHNOGRAPHY of a peasant group will devote a hundred pages or more to describing the agricultural sector in great detail, ...

“ [S HE] WAS INTERESTED in the place where vision meets execution, and where the poetic and the prosaic share space. She loved the way some...

Eastside Road, September 19, 2012— W HAT AN APT title: A Singular Woman , a biography of Stanley Ann Dunham, the mother of Barack Obama. Ja...

Pavel and I traverse the scree (photo: Simon Živny) I' VE ALWAYS WANTED to climb Mt. Shasta. We drive past it so often; it's so ma...

“ O N ONE THING , however, all [in Europe at the end of World War II] were agreed—resisters and politicians alike: ' planning '. ...

“ A BOVE ALL, VIOLENCE became part of daily life. The ultimate authority of the modern state has always rested in extremis on its monop...

M Y LOVELY QUEEN , that is: we saw Benoît Jacquot's film Les adieux à la reine yesterday, a very beautiful and quite intelligent film b...

“ T HE ATTRACTION of the notion that the ethical resides in the individual is that it reduces it to a decision-making process or a set of e...