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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

Sun Kil Moon, Friday, Sept. 27 now on-sale for Palo Alto concert

Posted on July 2, 2019 by markweiss86

Sun Kil Moon, the legendary and pervasive indie rock folk jazz band featuring Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters fame, crashes the Mitchell Park El Palo Alto Room, also known as The Mitch, Friday, September 27, 2019, for a concert … Continue reading →

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Donny McCaslin ‘The Opener’ VS Linklater ‘Slacker’

Posted on July 2, 2019 by markweiss86

I’m totally Geeking Out on Mark Kozelek which I just realized its pronounced like the word “Cosmic” and Terribly excited to be in their own seeing a on sale with Sun Kil Moon at The Mitch September 27, 2018 Evening … Continue reading →

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Yes, but can she bake a cherry pie?

Posted on July 1, 2019 by markweiss86

(Kay Kostopoulos and I visited the niece of Stella Brooks in Santa Rose about 15 years ago and leafed through a box of correspondence and briefly – -on the ride home and a few brief epistolary exchanges later — dreamed … Continue reading →

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Steve Almond William Stoner VS Frank Portman Holden Caufield

Posted on July 1, 2019 by markweiss86

Categories: Ethnicities (“Jewish”), Filthy Lucre (“money”), Words (“literature”) and Sex (this being the day after Pride, I would say that part of his appeal as an author is that men and women might buy the book for the back cover) … Continue reading →

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Windy Chien VS Tiffany Mangulabnan

Posted on June 30, 2019 by markweiss86

reprinted did from 6 posts ago, courtesy of the artist, but not bloody likely a selfie: which all somehow reminds me that after 45 posts and two hours here this morn I have a date with some laundry origami and … Continue reading →

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I did not buy the Sunday Times today, but if I had I would likely read, then clip, these 6 arts stories:

Posted on June 30, 2019 by markweiss86

Well, it’s not a story but a blurb about Savion Glover and I only want it for the picture, because I used a similar NYT lift for a Greyboy Allstars show in 1998, the poster I mean; he’s at The … Continue reading →

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On a Sunday: or, ‘anticipation’

Posted on June 30, 2019 by markweiss86

On a Sunday we traveled there with our friends from Pratt. There were two points on the island that we visited. The first was a sprawling nineteenth century building that had the aura of a madhouse; it was the smallpox … Continue reading →

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Earthwise Of Palo Alto Quantum Decoherence Of Jazz Shows – a

Posted on June 29, 2019 by markweiss86

October 18, 2018 Mitchell Park Allison Miller, Ben Goldberg, Kirk Knufke February **, 2019 Art Center  Amendola VS Blades VS Parker VS Skerik April **, 2019 Art Center Beth Custer Drawdown June 21, 2019 Mitchell Park Jane Monheit, Wong Vanharen … Continue reading →

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Beth Custer, Jerry Barrish, Hunter’s Point

Posted on June 29, 2019 by markweiss86
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Jane Monheit arguably the most famous Connetquot alumnus

Posted on June 29, 2019 by markweiss86

Jane Monheit sings tonite at Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park El Palo Alto Room, presented by Earthwise Productions (dots me). Her most famous Youtube performance is “I Won’t Dance” with Michael Buble (but from Jane’s cd) that has more than a … Continue reading →

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