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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play

I forgot to mention that the drummer I’m promoting Tuesday won a Grammy

EDU RIBEIRO be Sylvia Cuenca and Essiet Essiet at Obelisk Santa Clara

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Foxes!!!

Kira Goodkind and Jeff Goodkind, Redwood City, March 3.14.2026

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Greetings to Trueblood from The Donnas ‘95

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Eventbrite w Earthwise

I have 11 shows on my books. I have had about 180 shows in my history with Eventbrite. All since 2018. (I’ve been producing shows since fall of ‘94 with roughly 500 in my history I lost count) I got … Continue reading

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Xgau says ‘Dartmouth…’

At Dartmouth I hung out with the tiny bohemian clique insofar as they tolerated me, and they hipped me to jazz. By the time I was out of college I played pop radio all the time and also occasionally visited … Continue reading

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Lennon v Vaswani

1 Introduction Recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory [13] and gated recurrent [7] neural networks in particular, have been firmly established as state of the art approaches in sequence modeling and transduction problems such as language modeling and machine translation … Continue reading

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Matt Mahan vows Jobs

I recognized Matt Mahan at Blue Bottle coffee in the former Varsity theater in palo alto I did not recognize her at the time but the person who took this photo is Lorraine Powell jobs the $13 billion widow of … Continue reading

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Ozomatli ya se fue

is playing next week at the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park the article in reminds me that in 19 9828 years ago, I presented the band in their Norcal debut

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Time I Had Some Time Alone

bw READING HELL WOW IN THREE MINUTES I BOTH PAID MY HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM AND POSTED TO M Y BLOG. RICHARD HELL’S LIBRARY IN NYTIMES

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Kudos to John Chowning Grammy Award for lifetime technical achievement

Maybe they should give The John Chowning Award to the recording Academy. I might be misremembering this, but I believe John Chowning Junior and I and two other boys attended a rock concert together at the Winterland, Queen and Thin … Continue reading

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