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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Class act Naylor in Goldberg fix
Class act Jacqui Naylor, a jazz singer, lives in a dwelling in SF that once was home to Rube Goldberg, the inventor of oblique feng shui strategy, and builder of better traps-of-mouse. Sam Whiting and Brand Chr says: (and imagine … Continue reading
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Charlie Chan IS a) dead b) at the Olympics and c) David Packard
COMING THURSDAY OR FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 OR AUGUST 15, 2014 August 14 – 15: Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) 7:30 d H. Bruce Humberstone. w Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, based on a story by Paul Burger. ph Daniel C. … Continue reading
Posted in ethniceities, media, Plato's Republic
Tagged boris karloff, charlie chan, dao strom, david packard, jessie owens, stanford theatre, terry acebo davis
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Moss Calls Grand Boulevard ‘Garbage’
Reporting live from Palo Alto Planning and Transportation meeting, a public hearing, sage and activist Bob Moss says, re “build to the line” proposal that the catch-word “Grand Boulevard” is “garbage”. If I get the chance I will get Bob … Continue reading
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Tagged evgeny morozov, gennady sheyner, grand boulevard, great wall, richard sherman, wuwei
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HBSB coming at ya!
Henry Butler, a piano player from Louisiana, and Steven Bernstein a slide-trumpet player from Berkeley and New Yorker, cover new territory as the Hot 9. They gave a taste of their sound at Yoshi’s last month. We will probably … Continue reading
Happy birthday, Vida Blue
my gram paw, name a henry, knew your gram ma or rabbi, name of steven, sitting by the bayou, gonna set the world on fi yo. I co I co I co been a contenda. but am content as a content provider. Continue reading
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Tagged henry butler, pumpsie green, steven bernstein, vida blue
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Andrew Bird and Jessica Johnson, two free shows I would try to catch
Andrew Bird has a free show Sunday at Stern Grove in San Francisco, which will draw about 7,000 fans, maybe Terry and I will make the trek; I love Stern Grove. Have not been in a few years, however. Closer … Continue reading
I don’t wanna be your hero I just wanna fight like everyone else
Thank you, Kerry Yarkin and one other, for diverting the cavalcade of trolls who attacked me on the Weekly’s site, under the back-handed article about entering the race. What Gennady Sheyner strangely leaves out is that I got nearly 6,000 … Continue reading
Obscure labor action in Palo Alto
Three men who say they are part of a carpenters union are standing around on Emerson with a banner and say that in San Leandro a company I never heard of is building its new headquarters with non-union labor. They … Continue reading
Open letter to Diana Diamond: on Arrillaga, et al
Diana, you are on-point here in many ways. I think staff actually supported The Arrillaga Towers proposal to the tune of $500,000 not $250,000. ‘Our Palo Alto” meanwhile, as if we haven’t learned anything, or it is too soon to … Continue reading
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Tagged diana diamond, john arrillaga, keanu reeves, pat burt, philip k. dick
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This machine surrounds hate
Kudos to Rachel Garlin for writing this song, in honor, I am guessing, of Martin Luther King and Barack Hussein Obama, and the work of editors to create this video, using, I am guessing, Rachel’s students in 2009 at King … Continue reading
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