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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

Poltz and Jewel Reunite in Telluride

Posted on June 23, 2019 by markweiss86

My Denver rocky mountain and sometimes high correspondent BEM reports on loving the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, attending for the first time, with his kids. I tipped him to Steve Poltz, who played in my short-lived and doomed series at an … Continue reading →

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Yes this is mindless but I’m doing a post about three skulls: Warhol, Fritsch and Ross K Jones

Posted on June 23, 2019 by markweiss86

This is a detail of a Ross K Jones work in a private collection, but I do personally recall meeting him once, at Smith Andersen: This is on display only for about a year, displacing the Oldenburg Q Also this … Continue reading →

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Tom Harrell files

Posted on June 23, 2019 by markweiss86

Ben Ratliff: The trumpeter Tom Harrell has been doing this a long time, through various schools and vogues: He can play slow and fast and in between, sometimes all within a single line. But his improvising is always temperate and … Continue reading →

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Four more Earthwise on-sales, at Eventbrite

Posted on June 22, 2019 by markweiss86
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Being a Gunn grad makes you somewhat jaded in that you think of world-class scientist more as fathers or mothers of your classmates

Posted on June 22, 2019 by markweiss86
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Monheit sends Mitchell to ‘Dreamland’

Posted on June 22, 2019 by markweiss86

Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit of Long Island and Los Angeles rode a musical magic carpet, piloting 75 of her intimates, on a tour of the American and New World songbook, Friday at the Mitchell Park Center El Palo Alto room. … Continue reading →

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Puma and PIcasso (revisited)

Posted on June 19, 2019 by markweiss86

This is new to me: I am reprinting to top of the heap a previous post from 8 years ago, 2011, because I added a bit of content: Nes and Aaron of Premier Boutique in Palo Alto I have been … Continue reading →

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New website launch for Earthwise

Posted on June 17, 2019 by markweiss86

My wife, the artist and former arts commissioner Terry Acebo Davis aka TMW, made a tribute page or fan page for Earthwise Productions, my concert company. I started in 1994, which predates the modern internet, and have had varying degrees … Continue reading →

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Modest Mouse cover in front of The Varsity by Gunn duo at busker fete

Posted on June 16, 2019 by markweiss86

Paper Thin Walls and ambient street noise

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Biography of 3 artists/personae: Bob Dylan, David Hockney, Steve Cohen

Posted on June 15, 2019 by markweiss86
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