Monthly Archives: August 2014

Our neighbors Ivonne Baker and Nancy Pleibel, plus their dogs Picasso, Peaches and Ginger, enjoying Kaitlin McGaw from a safe distance Thursday at Cogswell Plaza

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Hudba to Terri Hinte

Not much of an item but I had a nice brief chat with publicist Terri Hinte of Richmond, Cali. She works for, among many, many others, Mimi Jones. Mimi Jones, also known as Miriam Sullivan. Miriam Sullivan, born in the … Continue reading

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Horsefeathers at JJ&F

Why we are at it, why don’t we vette the developer of Alma Plaza and his relationship with his grocer tenant, the one that filed for bankruptcy soon after opening, which is a public document and seems to say, according … Continue reading

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Speak friend and enter

I hear Palantir has a new technology, call it a time-machine, with which it will be sending key employees back to 1974 to purchase homes in Palo Alto at the prices they deserve. A beta version of this over-shot considerably … Continue reading

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Carol Garsten of Nature Gallery and Barron Park

Carol Garsten is my friend of about five years, whose business Nature Gallery relocated from Town and Country to downtown Los Altos in 2012, but is still a Palo Altan and in fact lives in Barron Park, which I consider … Continue reading

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The Buddy story

charles n_ tuck 97 miami of amanda.boughman@tuck.dartmouth.edu Mr. N_, Tuck ’97 and Tuck MBA advisory board: I met the Ms. N_, her friend, and her friend’s dog in front of Peet’s Coffee in Palo Alto this a.m., on the strength … Continue reading

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Bennett Porter v. Bennett Paster

Bennett Paster is a Brooklyn-based piano player and composer, who led an amazing jam last night at Stanford’s CoHo — the Stanford Jazz Workshop or Stanford Jazz Institute faculty all-star jam — featuring Julian Lage, Alvin Lin, a Colombian percussionist, … Continue reading

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Granite Alto

Photo essay about Stanford Jazz Camp / Workshop / Series / Festival / #firshir Ivor Holloway is a Gunn graduate and fulltime staff year-round for Stanford Jazz Workshop and camps. I met him Saturday for the first time since October … Continue reading

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I love you, Lou Renza: or, The Sun Also Rises, my friend

I am with Mark Michael, or this version of him, above, in that I am concerned with process, perhaps more than what the outcome is. In that context I would say that 75 to 100 people at the Elks Club … Continue reading

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Ballot statement take 2 (Mark Weiss for Council in <200 words)

I am running for Council in the tradition of Simitian, Fazzino and Yeh, who were student leaders here and evolved into public service. I graduated from Gunn( 1982) and Dartmouth College (1986) where I was an English major but also … Continue reading

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