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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

Mel and Bey and Queen and Slim

Posted on November 23, 2019 by markweiss86

(I am psyched about this new black bonnie and clyde thing, by the director of lemonade video…) Big Game Remi and Clay at the Fillmore Niners Packers Sunday night Larry Ochs onsale Elvin Bishop onsale Charlie Musselwhite onsale 2019 = … Continue reading →

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Dave Douglas live at The Mitch: civic engagement meets major triads

Posted on November 21, 2019 by markweiss86

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Patty Barber on sales for Palo Alto and North Bay shows

Posted on November 21, 2019 by markweiss86

Patricia Barber is doing two shows with Earthwise Productions in February, the 13th at Mitchell Park Center and Saturday, February 15 at a to be announced location that will be in Marin or Sonoma Counties, but not Mill Valley or … Continue reading →

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NZ from A to Z

Posted on November 19, 2019 by markweiss86

prime minister Jacinda Ardern   poli sci teacher dan Zirker B/w Raymond Chandler poignantly observed, “Without magic there is no art. Without art there is no idealism. Without idealism there is no integrity. Without integrity there is nothing but production.” … Continue reading →

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Parallax receptions

Posted on November 18, 2019 by markweiss86
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Forest thru the car window, 36 year interval

Posted on November 18, 2019 by markweiss86

1982 Fast Times (LA)2018 Harlem Bumpy More: His new show is god father

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Mary Cain, potter vs Mary Cain, runner

Posted on November 18, 2019 by markweiss86

Mary Cain of Santa Clara Pueblo, 1915-2010, very famous potter and grandmother of, among others, Tammy Garcia (also related to Autumn Borts, James Ebelacker and Jody Naranjo, right?). Mary Cain runner, name-checked by former Stanford star Lauren Fleshman, who claims … Continue reading →

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First rap Grammy VS first grammy who raps

Posted on November 17, 2019 by markweiss86

MC Hammer Stanley Burrell from McClymonds High in Oakland won the first rap Grammy, in 1992 for “You Can’t Touch This”. Angelica sat down next to me after today’s Niners victory over The Cards. She went to Silver Creek, works … Continue reading →

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ChristgAU on MuldAUr

Posted on November 16, 2019 by markweiss86

The AU standard: Don’t You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker [Last, 2018] Now 75, Muldaur became a dynamo in her fifties, an album a year between 1998 and 2011. Always a nuanced singer, she … Continue reading →

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Don Cherry the Canadian blowhard VS Don Cherry the Choctaw cornetist

Posted on November 16, 2019 by markweiss86

There is something in the local rag and likely other sources about the xenophobia of Canadian hockey broadcaster (and I think sometimes crooner) Don Cherry and him calling people “them” and that recent arrivals to Canada don’t respect the sacrifices … Continue reading →

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