Monthly Archives: August 2014

Gunn graffiti update or lack thereof, with Herrman here

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

I am still researching and trying to get traction on the purported “graffiti hate crime” of May, 2014, that included, as was reported in the Oracle and perhaps here “Thank God Villalobos is gone”. I wrote a letter to Chief … Continue reading →

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Sarah Sunde piece Aug. 15 check it

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

from Palo Alto Weekly, although I did hit her by email precedingly; She is Einar Sunde’s daughter, mainly based in New York Palo Alto native and Paly class of ’95’s Sarah Cameron Sunde, now a New York-based director and performance … Continue reading →

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The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten songs, by Greil Marcus and Mark Weiss, or Grweisl Markus

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Call me pathetic call me what you will just don’t call me late to Cibo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvKSPQ9p5Q “America has become amnesiac,” says Henry Giroux, “a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but … Continue reading →

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Swimming in Bengal

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Lather Records:
I recently got together with Sacramento improvisational champ Tony Passerell to try some Indian raga-ish jams with tabla/percussionist Alex Jenkins.  Some stuff from our first get together can be downloaded for free.  I played my…

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Kimmelman on Ray Johnson, circa 2002

Posted on August 10, 2014 by markweiss86

Look to your left (Liberty Street) and you will see the small turn-of-the-century French pastry in creamy, classically-detailed stone that housed the neighboring Chamber of Commerce. To your right (Cedar Street) is a stone-faced building of the first great skyscraper … Continue reading →

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Sane endorsement, strange interlude

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86

I got a tour of 801 Alma from a resident who felt some dissatisfaction with the management of the new PAHC building, based on the perceived lack of community among the resident, who moved in about a year ago. I … Continue reading →

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Mads Tolling Highlights the Twilight, August 16 in Palo Alto

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86

Mads Tolling Quartet plays the City of Palo Alto parks concert series, The Twilight, Saturday August 16. To my mind, as someone who has run Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto for 20 years, and produced more than 200 shows here, … Continue reading →

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Ripple Effect Thursday Aug 21 @ Mitchell Park

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86
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Katya and Helen of Gelataio on Lytton

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86
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Spoon NYT Mag by Dan Kois

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Dan Kois profiles Britt Daniel and Spoon in The New York Times Magazine. Nice photos. New cd. Are in SF for big crowded festival but I savor taste in mouth from 1997 intimate taste-maker event I produced here at the … Continue reading →

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