The Eastside View

travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Horace: Diffugere nives

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With profound thanks to Bhishma Xenotechnites ( Finished for now, and constructive comments welcomed below —) ( Well, then, here's the ...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Tribes

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• Nina Raine: Tribes Beth: Anita Carey Billy: James Caverly Daniel: Dan Clegg Sylvia: Christine Albright Ruth: Elizabeth Morton Christopher...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Barns, and a personal note

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P ERSONAL NOTE first: I named this blog in a hurry, as one often names things, but with little or no subsequent regret. I live on Eastside ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Three photos from Facebook

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I MAKE NO APOLOGIES for spending time on Facebook, where I "follow" a great many "friends" (and, of course, family) sca...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Alexander Calder in Los Angeles

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Installation photograph, Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, through July 27, 2014, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Cald...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Three plays in Pasadena: Tartuffe; Macbeth; Come Back, Little Sheba

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•Molière: Tartuffe , translated by Richard Wilbur. In repertory through May 24 •Shakespeare: Macbeth. In repertory through May 11 •William I...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

The Coast of Utopia

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Tom Stoppard: The Coast of Utopia. I: Voyage: through May 1. II: Shipwreck: through April 19. III: Salvage: through May 4. Shotgun Player...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Three Plays in Ashland: The Cocoanuts; The Tempest; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

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Eastside Road, March 27, 2014— F OR YEARS WE'VE SUBSCRIBED to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival , the impressive repertory company in Ash...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

A provisional commentary on Virgil, John, and Lou

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Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) John Cage (1912-1992) Lou Harrison (1917-2003) I   MET L OU H ARRISON in the early 1960s, probably at the Cabr...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Apologia pro bloga sua

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I HAVEN'T BEEN GIVING enough attention lately to blogs, either to my own or to those of others. I find online comments and blogs, car...
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Monday, March 03, 2014

Third Annual Festival of the Avant Garde

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Shin-ichi Matsushita: Subject 17 T HE RECENT CONCERTS by Other Minds brought an earlier festival to mind: the Third Annual Festival of the ...
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Commonplace: the uses of history

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W HAT HAS TRADITIONALLY set historians apart from all other commentators on the past is their conviction that the past has both the ability...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Ubu Roi in San Francisco

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Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi translated from the French by Rob Melrose Directed by Yury Urnov The Cutting Ball Theater 277 Taylor Street, San Fran...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

Jerusalem

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W HAT TO SAY ABOUT Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem ,  seen last night at San Francisco Playhouse? We sat center, first row mezzanine, t...
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