The Eastside View

Autour d'une bouteille avec André Lurton by André Lurton with Gilles Berdin ISBN 978-2-35639-039-4 Bordeaux : Elytis, c2010. “ A NDRÉ L...

Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time . By Peter Galison. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. M OM ALWAYS LISTENED ...

W E HAVE LOST another major presence — in our extended family, in our profession, in our community. Judy Rodgers, who was always so focusse...

James Turrell: A Retrospective . Through April 6, 2014. David Hockney: Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, 2011 . Through January 20, 2014. Th...

W ELL, JUST DOWN THE ROAD from Arcadia, in Monrovia. California, not Liberia, thank Hermes. We are here to see the fall season of A Noise W...

I HAVE BEEN remiss in not recording a few observations here about the four compositions for string quartet by Robert Erickson. I feel a litt...

Eastside Road, November 8, 2013— I PROMISED NOT to write this month, I know, but I'd be remiss not to mention two Bay Area events worth...

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 ...