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
John Santos confirmed his lineup for the Palo Alto show: The John Santos Quintet plus special guests Charlie Gurke – saxes Marco Diaz – piano Saul Sierra – bass David Flores – drums John Santos – percussion I will update … Continue reading →
(I produced your first NorCal show, 1997, Cubberley Community Center, 1997, “Twin Harmonic Pop Festival — a Noise Pop R.I.P. off, I admit) Mark Weiss dba Earthwise (I sent this to their agent, hoping to get a date here in … Continue reading →
Tickets are going pretty fast at Eventbrite for $20 all ages general admission. Earthwise productions has a total of five shows on sale most at Mitchell Park, The Mitch. There is a free Tom Harrell Quartet jazz concert also available … Continue reading →
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And1: Cake, 1994, “cream rinse and tobacco smoke” (of Jolene) b/w ATE IN YOUR SIX So that’s a pun on the Filipino word for elder or aunt and continuing the food theme which is appropriate because I heard … Continue reading →
Parentheses I ripped this from an article in the New York Times about 25 important Modern arts and the screen capture is from an edited video of the 1970s super hero show whereas the other piece is from a well … Continue reading →
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Actually Steph Chou, who was written up in the recent Downbeat, reminds me of Patricia Barber.
I passed through the plastic arts show yesterday afternoon just long enough to meet, in the courtyard of the Art Center, near the Oliveira bronze lady, Willow Teller, a young ceramicist from Palo Alto. I had noticed her work, a … Continue reading →
I cannot recite much of Canterbury tales beyond April being the cruelest month, eventually, but somehow I can do this from memory: These are cruelest of baseball words Tinker to Evers to Chance A trio of bearcubs yet fleeter than … Continue reading →