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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’m middle aged but James Dean and Natalie Wood have long since turned to dust swallowed by mites

Posted on August 28, 2020 by markweiss86
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World premiere of ‘There Is Something On Your Mind’ video featuring Nancy Wright, on Lions With Wings, an online initiative of concert promoter Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto

Posted on August 28, 2020 by markweiss86

Earthwise Productions has released a video, made by Kid Andersen’s Greaseland Studios of San Jose, as part of its Lions With Wings initiative. The 8-minute video features six performers in isolation, an accomodation to the Covid-19 virus, but is edited … Continue reading →

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Ed and Lava’s Excellent Adventures

Posted on August 28, 2020 by markweiss86

Ed Solomon was in my Hebrew School car pool 45 years ago and he held signs for other cars to read, on 280 like HONK IF YOU’RE HORNY.He wrote “Bill and Ted” movies, one of which, still featuring Keanu Reeves, … Continue reading →

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Ascent Elimination Airlines

Posted on August 26, 2020 by markweiss86

Nina Katchadourian should own an airline that always chooses the longest distance between two points but my the end of the flight as you deplane you are awarded an art degree. I think of her as a strange visitor from … Continue reading →

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The McCloskey’s of St. Louis are Unamerican; the Republicans are Unamerican

Posted on August 26, 2020 by markweiss86

I agree with Edsall of The New York Times: Donald Trump is trying to create a race war in America, Blacks versus whites, as a way to avoid a class war, as a way to avoid taxing corporations and the … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 25 and a half: or, half celebrating

Posted on August 25, 2020 by markweiss86

Belated thanks to Sal Pizarro of the Merc for plugging my concert series — I don’t think I noticed it until months later while doing a little subtle self-googling. THE SHOW GOES ON: It’s been 25 years since Mark Weiss started Earthwise Productions, but … Continue reading →

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1 Lady Announces’Eel and Saffron’ as new Nationalist Bowl

Posted on August 25, 2020 by markweiss86

‘MORE, SIR” is plea.

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Twenty five years of Soledad

Posted on August 25, 2020 by markweiss86

When Brad Raymond married Soledad O’Brien his Harvard schoolmate I left a message on his answering machine wishing him “cien anos de Soledad” I thought of that just now going through the times noticing the obituary of Mercedes Berkshire 87 … Continue reading →

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Who knows ‘Why The Sax Player has Cyrillic on his t-shirt’?

Posted on August 24, 2020 by markweiss86

There’s a media group called Black Palm that did a No Use For a Name Tony Sly tribute with all Slavic female leads, plus a Clint Mansell doubledate Slavic or Russian looking couples video plus California Dreaming with the late … Continue reading →

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Equality VS Equity (the rainbow world of Palo Alto’s Molly Tuttle)

Posted on August 24, 2020 by markweiss86

She comes in colors. This is the 27th time I’ve blogged about Molly Tuttle in a year, or more likely name-checked. Meanwhile there are people who’ve been following her for 15 years. This is a great video, of a great … Continue reading →

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