Monthly Archives: June 2022

I’m really happy that Rose Simpson of Santa Fe is in the New York Times and prefer the tearsheet to the online even though the online version has more photos

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Palo Alto leadership tactics are insulting to Black families in Ventura

I agree with Rebecca Eisenberg but I still think the more troubling element is that 16 acres the fry’s site changed hands between developers but then somehow people knew to buy the adjacent 40 acres and the entire 60 acres … Continue reading

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All that jazz

I don’t mean to sound snitty or disrespectful and in fact I am a donor for the first time in 50 years, and I bought three or four sets of tickets but as a former journalist—who in fact wrote about … Continue reading

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Marta Sanchez 5 on deck for Earthwise

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Poitier at Stanford Theatre in September

Stanford Theatre the movie palace has announced a summer fall schedule after two years being shutter due to the epidemic a highlight is a September 2 day run of two movies featuring the late Sidney Poitier. meanwhile Earthwise will resume … Continue reading

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Not sure why Kamasi Washington charges $142 per ticket for a club show in Menlo Park except possibly, as the New York Times reports, he is seen in society pages wearing a dashiki spun with real gold

  bw   note: Kamasi Washington is booked by Mitch Blackman of ICM, who also books Robert Glasper and Macy Gray — both of whom played the new venue, The Guild. Kamasi has 187K social media followers, god bless. note2: … Continue reading

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Jimmy Wilsey VS Dede Wilsey

    There’s an article in today’s Chronicle that Michael Goldberg has a biography of Jimmy Calvin Wilsey the Chris Isaak founding guitarist and former member of the punk band the avengers, Who died three years ago. I never met … Continue reading

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Awesome

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Happy birthdays, Weezer and droogs

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Thank you, Zoe Lofgren, my fellow Gunn alumnus, for leadership in the insurrection hearings

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