The band known as Amendola vs. Blades vs. Parker vs. Skerik performs a free show Saturday, March 30, 2019 8 p.m. at Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium presented by Earthwise Productions. Doors, 7:30 p.m. Program is 8 to 9:30 one … Continue reading
Stanford right hander Brendan Beck sophomore is one of the nations top hurlers.
Thanks to the Sullivan decision, it is indeed hard for public figures to win libel suits. They have to prove that something false was said about them, that it harmed their reputation and that the writer acted with “actual malice.” … Continue reading
Alicia Olatuja, who was first noticed for her solo on “Battle Hymn of The Republic” at the Obama Inauguration in 2013, plays an intimate set at SFJazz July 28. A classically trained vocalist from St. Louis and Manhattan School of … Continue reading
The first photo is of a piece of yummy looking cake that I decided not to eat although I did have brisket and matzoh ball soup at the new deli called I think Eleven 11 by Ruben. I hope to … Continue reading
And this one, maybe I printed it previously is related to an even earlier six or eight part drawing of Boston Celtics Bob Cousy, him demonstrating the novel dribbling technique. Diallo plays for Oklahoma Thunder and won the All … Continue reading
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ee The last one is truly as if I were a fashion writer: I’ve mentioned several times, in passing, like in emails, that at Dartmouth in the 1980s, which was LL Bean and “preppy handbook” and conservative, I loaded … Continue reading
I saw something fly past my info stream today about Nan Warshaw. I met her in 2003 at SXSW when I was shopping three projects involving my then-client Caroleen Beatty. Nan said she knew Caroleen from Bedlam Rovers which toured … Continue reading
I will have to look into this. I remember it well. You wore blue, the Germans wore black. He said, “but my wife is not in a wheel chair”. Distribution of word “memoir” in Plastic Alto, by year: 2019: 15, … Continue reading
I love basketball and I love memoir — I’m taking Lynn Stegner’s famous course — so I cannot resist a quick cut and paste, based on something in the Yahoo feed, about a crooked referee NBA and his memoir from … Continue reading
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