The Eastside View

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

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Chemical weapons in Syria

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T HE USEFUL WEBSITE Democracy for America asks us where we stand on Syria, meaning of course where we stand on the question of military int...
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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Events of the day

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 Solnit on Snowden: Privacy is a kind of power as well as a right, one that public librarians fought to protect against the Bush administrat...
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Thursday, July 04, 2013

Marginalia and loose ends

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Villard St. Pancrace, France, July 4— SEVEN AT NIGHT: a church bell is ringing, for vespers, I suppose. I am at loose ends, having just spen...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Summer vacation

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The Eastside View will probably be silent for a few weeks. I'm in the French Alps with a friend, walking to Nice, and have just posted t...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Brown, Bischoff, Fabritius, Vermeer

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Eastside Road, May 30, 2013— I MADE A COMMENT over on Facebook the other day that I've been thinking about on and off since: I think cu...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

RIP Kenji Nanao

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T WO YEARS AGO or so I wrote briefly here about the painter and printmaker Kenjilo Nanao, whose studio I had visited that day, to get to k...
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Iberia, 5: Fado

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Patricia Costa singing Fado in Porto, April 5 2013 photo: Lindsey Shere Hotel Sao José, Rua da Alegria, Porto— F ADO IS THE TANGO , I suppos...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Two more plays in Pasadena

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Pasadena, California, May 12, 2013— Q UICKLY NOW, BECAUSE it's late and we have a longish drive tomorrow, let me sum up the rest of the...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Eurydice

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Jules Wilcox as Eurydice, with her recumbent Father (Geoff Elliott) and the menacing Lord of the Underworld (Ryan Vincent Anderson); three S...
Monday, May 06, 2013

Two Stoppard plays

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F OR THE RECORD , whatever the record might be, we saw two plays by Tom Stoppard on Saturday, down in Berkeley. We caught them just in time;...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Three Plays in Ashland

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F OR A NUMBER of years, since September 2001 in fact, we've been attending the Oregon Shakespeare Festival productions in this souther...
Saturday, April 06, 2013

Iberia, 4: three encounters in Zamora

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W E WERE LOOKING OUT over the river Douro, subsiding from last week's high water but still boiling along carrying a fair quantity of soi...
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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Iberia, 3: Ávila

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Avila, March 31, 2013— A FAVORITE CITY of mine, Ávila, accent the first syllable, please, is a small old city, still entirely encircled by...
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Iberia, 2: Processions, buskers, tooth

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Hotel Zurbano, Madrid, March 29, 2013— B ACK DOWN TO THE CENTER of town last night, about eight o'clock, to find the streets devoid of ...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Iberia, 1: Chez Nick revisited

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Hotel Zurbano, Madrid, March 28, 2013— A GOOD MANY YEARS ago we found a marvelous restaurant on the Rue Taylor in Paris, Chez Nick. They s...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

A Time in Rome

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N OT LONG AGO we spent two weeks in Rome, first a few days with one couple of old friends, then ten days with another, finally a weekend wi...
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