The Eastside View

Via Gaetano Sacchi, Roma, January 29, 2013— T HAT TITLE IS NOT Latin for "this" (or "that"), it is Russian for "no...

via Gaetano Sacchi Rome, January 28, 2013— A FEW MORE WORDS on street theater, if you don't mind. Rome is nothing if not theatrical. I...

Via Gaetano Sacchi, Rome; January 28, 2013— H ERE IN THIS not very clear photo you see a pair of street performers just off the Via Corso. ...

Via Gaetano Sacchi, January 22, 2013— T HE MOST MEMORABLE paintings, it seems to me, are like voicemail messages left by dear distant frien...

en route Amsterdam-Apeldoorn, January 16, 2013— The Southernization of American life was an expression of the great turn away from the centr...

van Linschotenstraat, Amsterdam, January 13, 2013— S O MANY THINGS to write about, so little time (and, just now, energy) to write. Well...

Van Linschotenstraat, January 10, 2013— A BEAUTIFUL MORNING here when it finally broke: we're so much further north than usual, it...

Eastside Road, January 7, 2013— •Luciano De Crescenzo: Thus Spake Bellavista: Naples, Love, and Liberty. Translated from the Italian by Avr...

Eastside Road, January 5, 2013— •Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective •Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye Exhibitions at San Francisco Museu...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, California January 3, 2013 The Honorable Barack Obama White House Washington D.C. Dear Mr. President: In their bo...

Eastside Road, January 3, 2013— •John de Graaf and David K. Batker: What's the Economy For, Anyway? (Bloomsbury Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1...

Eastside Road, January 1, 2013— T HIS ISN'T MUCH of a photo, I know; I snapped it quickly with my iPhone; I just want to give you an id...

I CAN'T HELP WANTING to add a few comments of my own to the gathering millions of paragraphs, though I know I can't really compreh...

I ' M EMBARRASSED to have misspelt Brent Lindsay's surname yesterday — I plead fatigue at the time of writing; I know his name perf...

I T'S NOT MUCH of a photo: I apologize to the reader for having nothing better, and to the Imaginists for sneaking the photo during ton...

I SUPPOSE I FIRST heard Dave Brubeck on a recording, undoubtedly an LP, in the fall of 1952, when I was beginning college. I think by then...

            Seven Elevens for Andrew Hoyem a beau présent on his seventyseventh birthday                         1. Ahem:       drown ye no ...

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