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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

Maya does Norah at CoHo

Posted on February 19, 2024 by markweiss86

CUE THE HAIR-FLIP I caught Maya West and friends Sunday afternoon at Stanford student union coffee house aka CoHo; when they broke out Norah Jones “I Don’t Know Why I Didn’t Come” I texted a clip to Jesse Harris. He … Continue reading →

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Do these images go with the previous post?

Posted on February 15, 2024 by markweiss86

Doing this from memory: Patti Cathcart, with Tuck’s guitar; Rachel Baiman, Roberta Lea, the late great Echo Brown to whom I am trying to produce a tribute; that’s only three I thought there were six; but I want to relate … Continue reading →

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Fair play for those who dare to dream

Posted on February 15, 2024 by markweiss86

Or shout out to quick to see Fair play to those who dare to dream

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Happy birthday month, Ethan Iverson

Posted on February 12, 2024 by markweiss86
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LABOR ZIONISTS TENDED TO TOLERATE RELIGIOUS ZIONIST

Posted on February 7, 2024 by markweiss86

ORTHODOXY RATHER THAN CONFRONT IT vs Groucho Marx prunes riff

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Blackletter vs Blackfriar

Posted on February 5, 2024 by markweiss86

Blackletter is a typeface, for instance in the Bible, Gutenberg — itself subject to a Broadway musical; Black Friar is or was an arts org or senior society at University Chicago to which my grandfather belonged. He was also Phi … Continue reading →

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Earthwise welcomes Nefesh Mountain Friday in Palo Alto

Posted on February 5, 2024 by markweiss86

Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium 1313 Newell at Embarcadero Doors 7:45 8 pm show all ages $18 advance, $5 students EventBrite Earthwise 31st season thank god it’s Friday

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A Page Pirate looks at 60: about Jim Yardley, ‘Brave Dragons’, Matt Passell and having this 40 minute block to blog twice

Posted on February 4, 2024 by markweiss86
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Protected: R U 👌

Posted on February 4, 2024 by markweiss86

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Death comes for the archbishop Riordan

Posted on February 1, 2024 by markweiss86

The author Willa Cather, when she mattered, in her best work said lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds. And I remember that, from my days at Dartmouth. Eighteen seventy-three, nineteen forty-seven. Seventeen sixty nine, nineteen eighty six rather. Do … Continue reading →

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