Monthly Archives: March 2015

Grandi Operai del Jazz

Posted on March 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Non solo notizie.:
JACK WALRATH & GARY SMULYAN QUARTET al CottonJazzClub di Ascoli C=Lounge / 6 marzo 2015 h 21,45 (circa) A guardarli all’opera da vicino mi ricordano quei temerari ma tranquilli operai che costruivano grattacieli a…

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Jack Walrath w. AppleJack Walroth

Posted on March 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Jack Walrath, my former client, is a jazz trumpeter from Montana who went to Berklee and played with Mingus and lives in New York. Applejack Walroth is a bluesman from Chicago who played with Boz Scaggs at the 2009 Hardly … Continue reading →

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Scooby Doo nature of Palo Alto politics

Posted on March 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Five years in with my “constructive engagement” project, which comprises three runs at Council and now five runs for commission or boards and I have to admit I don’t think I know what is actually going on here. Even becoming … Continue reading →

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Sunday in the park, with Picasso

Posted on March 15, 2015 by markweiss86

Johnson Park, Downtown North, Palo Alto daylight savings. Picasso knew Frida  slightly and was sniffing her old stomping grounds.

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Marlon James x Katherine Turczan

Posted on March 15, 2015 by markweiss86
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Brandon Sherrod, Holcombe Waller, Paul Thorne and Penn’s Big U

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

I ain’t got there yet but will write something about the Yale basketball player who quit the team to join the singing group. Reminds me of: Holcombe Waller, a Palo Altan living in the North West, also a former Yalie … Continue reading →

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HANAhaus in da house

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

The SAP Labs HANAhaus cafe and Blue Bottle coffee at 456 University, The Varsity, that Chop Keenan assured me, as Gennady notes, would “rock” opens next week, Tuesday March 17, 2015 and so we can give it until Labor Day … Continue reading →

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Dan Adler for Congress catnip for anti-semites

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

Let’s get this straight: I am a small time operative in the music biz, as Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto, since 1994 and I am about 300 miles from LA, 35 miles from SF even, and about $500 from New … Continue reading →

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Third Eye Blind July 25 at San Francisco Masonic

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

Kudos for Steve Jenkins, my Gunn and Terman schoolmate, for keeping his rock and roll fantasy alive to middle age. I remember Dorothy Bradshaw, my 8th grade drama teacher looking out the window at Steve and a kid named J.T. … Continue reading →

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47 posts so far in March to Plastic Alto by Mark Weiss, plus this photo of him, at BV rally

Posted on March 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Thanks, Winter: (I was wearing a suit to atone for wearing pajamas to the County Supervisors hearing back in January, I described below. In case a casual Plasty reader does not match the svelte guy tossing a bowling ball in … Continue reading →

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