Monthly Archives: October 2023

Be quick but don’t hurry: four more concerts, with a total of nearly 800 unsold seats

Posted on October 31, 2023 by markweiss86

  This is a bit redundant of Tuesday’s post, if you are a serial reader of Plastic Alto: I have four more productions, and a total of five shows coming up. Things are a little slow at the box office. … Continue reading →

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A November to remember

Posted on October 29, 2023 by markweiss86

Four final shows for Earthwise Earthwise culminates its year with four final productions in November. On Friday , November 3, at the Palo Alto Art Center, Jovia Armstrong Eunoia Society presents a cd release show. On Saturday November 11, at … Continue reading →

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Which one is you?

Posted on October 28, 2023 by markweiss86

Which one is you? I started my day by noticing my wife had rearranged my desk again, revealing the black and white print of our championship team, from 1981, in the locker room, one of us wearing a net around … Continue reading →

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We want it! Let’s get it! Bob Melvin new Giants skipper

Posted on October 25, 2023 by markweiss86
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oxymoron

Posted on October 23, 2023 by markweiss86

mark weiss, bear hotel rm 32, San Francisco, May, 2021 bw from my former neighbor  

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Bee’s knees jazz show by Chris Jonas group

Posted on October 20, 2023 by markweiss86

Chris Jonas,,reeds; Jason Levis, drums; Lisa Mezzacappa bass; Cory Wright, reeds, at Palo Alto Art Center, by Earthwise Productions October 20, 2023      

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Fuck the Astros and their oil company uniform ad

Posted on October 18, 2023 by markweiss86
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Tale of two Cubberleys

Posted on October 17, 2023 by markweiss86

The Palo Alto Weekly ran a picture of two geezers with medicine balls in an otherwise empty Cubberley hallway, to signify or suborn apathy about that important public asset. I think they’re thinking by publishing these weak messages that if … Continue reading →

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Black Virgins are Not For Hipsters by Earthwise

Posted on October 16, 2023 by markweiss86

I’m risking $3,600 in seed money for a work derivative of Echo Brown’s one woman show, “Black Virgins Are Not For Hipsters” which debuted at The Marsh in San Francisco eight years ago. It would be a postmodern work — … Continue reading →

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Stanford students bullied and harassed by Arabs, liberals and those sympathetic to or thrilled by the murder of hundreds of music-lovers in Israel last week

Posted on October 14, 2023 by markweiss86

“He put together a really epic performance,” Stanford coach Troy Taylor said of Elic as in “epic” Ayomanor. The Post — Braden Cartwright — says a Stanford instructor named Ameer Hasan Loggins is the one I read about previously, who … Continue reading →

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