The Eastside View

ART Sculpture by Mark Di Suvero . Crissey Field, San Francisco; September 23, 2013. Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 . De Y...

Ashland, Oregon— I WRITE THIS POST unhappily, without enthusiasm. No one likes to be forever complaining. But this trip up to Ashland sadden...

Ashland, Oregon— FOUR PLAYS this week, three by Shakespeare, and last night we saw the first of them, and I hope it's uphill from here. ...

• Red , a play by John Logan, directed by caryn desai at International City Theatre, Long Beach, through September 15.  IN LOS ANGELES for o...

H ALF A CENTURY ago or more I attended Santa Rosa Junior College for a couple of semesters, where my favorite teacher was undoubtedly Sidne...

• J EANETTE H AIEN : The All of It, a novel. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. A friend gave me this a couple of weeks ago, knowing...

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...