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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

Earthwise home and away with Patricia Barber in February

Posted on January 8, 2020 by markweiss86

I’m producing a Patricia Barber show in Palo Alto on Thursday, February 13 and then in Occidental, an hour north of the Golden Gate, on Friday February 14.

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San Francisco district attorney, 2020 VS fictional district attorney 1941 film classic

Posted on January 7, 2020 by markweiss86
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Bitch, I’m Elizabeth Wurtzel, 52

Posted on January 7, 2020 by markweiss86

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If Lizzo’s audience is only 5 Percent black, does that mean she’s going to toss in her towel the way Noname did?

Posted on January 6, 2020 by markweiss86

I don’t mean to sound like a hater; I felt I was pretty cool for going to the no name show in March 2019 in Oakland and it didn’t occur to me how wide the audience was until nine months … Continue reading →

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Mam VS Kam

Posted on January 6, 2020 by markweiss86
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Yes, Mam

Posted on January 6, 2020 by markweiss86

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I spent 10 minutes listening to covers of someone you loved; I was really…

Posted on January 6, 2020 by markweiss86

I spent 10 minutes listening to covers of someone you loved; I was really …Trying to figure out whether Tom Barnes co-writer was the same Tom Barnes from engine 88 —not likely I was the 85 millionth person to learn … Continue reading →

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Awkwafina Golden Globe VS Terry Allen liner notes Grammy nom

Posted on January 6, 2020 by markweiss86
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Bendtime for Bongo

Posted on January 5, 2020 by markweiss86

Director Bong Joon Ho prepares to take a bow, as first foreign film director to win Best Picture. I touteded him 12 years before The Carpet bagger: Dear relatively short and random list of friends: I want to share with … Continue reading →

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Chesa Boudin, ‘Gringo’ (2013) VS John P. Marquand, ‘The Late George Apley’ (1937)

Posted on January 5, 2020 by markweiss86

Kudos to San Francisco’s top cop. bw   Speaking of memoir or faulty memory I could not recall The instrument of Phillip Greenlief pictured here in my own show in October 11:

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