The Eastside View

Photo: Jim Shere, 2012 Eastside Road, June 21, 2014— I   HAD HOPED to report here on a fine road trip we have just taken, four thousand mil...

WE'VE BEEN ON the road for nearly two weeks, and blogging has suffered — both here and over at Eating Every Day. Most of my jotting has ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...