The Eastside View

T HERE ARE OTHER THINGS to be said: another novel of Frederic Tuten's just read ( Tallien: A Brief Romance, which made me think of Geo...

L AST SATURDAY WE HEARD Lisa Bielawa’s Crissy Broadcast, the San Francisco variant of a piece she wrote for performance at Berlin’s old Te...

The recent Congressional breakdown over funding the government suggests that today’s social “warfare” is not between Christians and Muslims,...

From the vault: this was written last January, but for some reason never posted to the blog. It still seems to the point. Y ESTERDAY I READ ...

Eastside Road, October 16, 2013— N EARLY TWENTY-FIVE years ago, in 1989, the noted home baker, teacher, and cookbook author Marion Cunningh...

Eastside Road, October 14, 2013— W HY WOULD ANYONE in his right mind spend hundreds of dollars and travel thousand of miles to see Einstein...

Home is Here . By Sidney Meller. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Eastside Road, October 6, 2013— I POSTED HERE the other day — well...

Buried Child . By Sam Shepard, directed by Loretta Greco. San Francisco: The Magic Theater; seen September 27, 2013. Eastside Road, October ...

A Winter's Tale . By William Shakespeare, directed by Patricia McGregor. Orinda: California Shakespeare Theater; seen September 26, 2013...

Bonnie and Clyde . By Adam Peck, directed by Mark Jackson. Berkeley: Shotgun Players; seen September 25, 2013. Eastside Road, October 3, 201...

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...