The Eastside View

•Herman Bang: Tina , translated from the Danish by Paul Christophersen (London and Dover N.H.: The Athlone Press, 1984, ISBN 0-485-11254-X) ...

V ERY SPECIAL NEWS: The Chatelet production of the Wilson-Glass opera Einstein on the Beach can be seen in its entirety — four and a half h...

Alessandro Manzoni: I Promessi sposi , translated as The Betrothed by Bruce Penman. Penquin Books, 1986 . C HRISTMAS WEEK is for reading,...

Next day's play, back home: TONY Also from Cuba, this menu: tuna, pork paté, bean soup… (Zulu nods.) …corn — take four ears, Dane.  DANE...

O N THE WAY BACK from our Christmas holiday in Portland I finally got in touch with Charles Lumaire, who I've known until now only thro...

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...