The Eastside View

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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;...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...