Monthly Archives: September 2021

Let’s be clear that ’contract tracking’ is not ’contact tracing’

SF Jazz described as managing a $64m new building, producing 400 yearly shows on a $19m budget, has 17 open positions This one is to be the right hand or the left foof Randall Kline: This Artistic Administrator position will … Continue reading

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Happy birthday, Wayne Dona, played Crazy Crab

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Random fandom and trumpet riffs

1. I did not know that Tom Harrell was in Malo – and he played with Carlos Santana? Did he play with Gregg Rolie of Palo Alto, or at Cubberley? Did Gregg play at Cubberley? I was at a garage … Continue reading

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Henry Aaron backwards ‘4’ 1957 Topps card

      In 1957, Topps issued a baseball card, of Henry Aaron with him “batting left” but it is actually a reversed image you can tell by the backwards “4” (actually “44” concealed) on his jersey front. In 5751, … Continue reading

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Earthwise Sagejubako

Five post-meridiem, Lytton Plaza, twenty-two September, Wednesday: Scott Amendola, drums versus Wil Blades, Hammond B-3 organ with Leslie cabinet; Two post-meridiem, Lytton Plaza, two October, Saturday: Brittany Haas, fiddle; Jordan, guitar, Hawktail; Two post-meridiem, Mitchell Park Bowl, seventeen October, Sunday: … Continue reading

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Perfectly pointless post comparing down-to-earth local singer in portrait with freeze frame of ostentatious woman in pink on tv

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Interview with Coach Miller postgame vs. Yerba Buena

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If CCS Top 40 were scored like fantasy football

Menlo School (Atherton) 183  2. Los Gatos 1643. Aptos 159  4. Gunn (Palo Alto) 156 (but ranked only #35)5. Palma (Salinas) 1506. Mountain View 131 7. Hillsdale (San Mateo) 131 (#34)8. Salinas 1309. Leigh (San Jose) 13010. Bellarmine (SJ) 125 … Continue reading

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Together Again Palo Alto smokin’

Thanks are due to the following musicians for being Together Again Palo Alto, in order of appearance: Steve Poltz, Dayna Stephens, Genius Wesley, Lucas Vesley, Michael Aaberg, Marco Peris, Will Magid, Morgan Nilsen, Inspector Gadje, Mads Tolling, Colin Hogan, Eric … Continue reading

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Chocolate Heads going salsa?

I met a couple downtown who had just dropped their daughter off at the local university. I’ve had about five or six such encounters this week — I’m at Lytton Plaza almost all day, every day, for the music. Unlike … Continue reading

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