Monthly Archives: February 2022

Tim Gray, Mark Weiss, Gail Price, fall, 2009 at Smith-Andersen studios, Pepper Street, Palo Alto

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Music hall of fame news/noise (after Kahneman, 2021)

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Earthwise announces three-part spring jazz series in Palo Alto

  I have three confirmed shows for spring, all jazz, but at two locations: Or Barekat Quartet, Lytton Plaza, free show, Monday, April 18, 2002 6 p.m. Ben Goldberg/Scott Amendola/Todd Sickafoose Trio — sometimes and formerly known as Plays Monk, … Continue reading

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Jesus Shuttleworth at CCS

Jesus Shuttlesworth at CCS Rather than a CCS basketball tourney, like the one my team played so many years ago, the powers that be have declared the Catholics League the winner of CCS title; they will celebrate such with a … Continue reading

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Pluck out every brick and Stone

If he is currently employed by PAUSD, shouldn’t he recuse? Greer is not employed by PAUSD and if he was he’d employ the  same high ethical standards he did when he recused himself for the tenant relocation matter when it … Continue reading

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Or: There and Back Again

We love it at the Fillmore and the Music HallThe Earl in Atlanta and the Turf in St. PaulThe Exit, The Basement, The Ryman gotta play ’em allThe Capitol stage where Jerry playedThe Troubadour where dreams are madeLet’s get on … Continue reading

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A shotgun appears, and 26 years later is fired in Berkeley

In September, 1995 The Negro Problem performed in Palo Alto opening for Cake, and a Black person went around town pulling down our posters because he thought we were KKK, and he called my office and I explained— Stew has … Continue reading

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0-1 1-2 1; 44 3 24

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CCS Top 20 teams, ranked by wins

  SIXTEEN WINS Christopher (Gilroy) ^ Fremont (Sunnyvale) ^ Lynbrook (San Jose) ^ Pioneer (San Jose) ^ Sobrato (Morgan Hill) ^ SEVENTEEN WINS Burlingame ^ Gunn (Palo Alto)^ Menlo-Atherton ^ Palma (Salinas) St. Ignatius (San Francisco) San Lorenzo Valley (Felton) … Continue reading

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Centripedes attack at your leisure

sounds like a song.

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