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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

See That My Grave is kept covered, by Blind Lou Mavis

Posted on December 7, 2015 by markweiss86

Congrats to Mavis Staples for her Grammy nomination, and to Bill Frisell, Donny McCaslin, Motema Records, Merge, Imogen Heap and all the rest. The Mavis is part of an EP that is preview for an upcoming film and also includes … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with Wong?

Posted on December 4, 2015 by markweiss86

When the Weekly writes, apropos of 429 University proposal, that the discussion is a “proxy battle in a broader debate” over development, don’t they actually mean that there is inscrutable and undue resistance here because leadership is unwilling and afraid … Continue reading →

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Gunn angle on two local sports milestones

Posted on December 4, 2015 by markweiss86

The long and the short of it is that the Weekly had two sports stories yesterday in which I felt the Gunn context had been unjustly omitted and here in Plastic Alto, I seek the cure. First came news that … Continue reading →

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Wah-hoo-wah w. Oo-f-rah

Posted on December 2, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add, a couple days later: I’ve read the first two stories of Phil Klay and was slightly put off to learn that he was a public affairs officer and not a grunt in the war (well, he is … Continue reading →

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Ben Venom at Hemlock SF

Posted on December 1, 2015 by markweiss86
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I’m quite certain I had not previously seen a double feature at Stanford theater with two two 0-star films, according to Holly will

Posted on November 27, 2015 by markweiss86

  Up the river just imagine    

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mish-matched twins: Tommy and Steve & Rembrandt Kapoor

Posted on November 27, 2015 by markweiss86

  Published  

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Cohen recalls

Posted on November 25, 2015 by markweiss86

  who sings like an super weird else comes to Slater

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Expectations low for saving capitalism

Posted on November 23, 2015 by markweiss86

I’m roughly two-thirds through my first crack at Robert Reich “Saving Capitalism: For the many not the few”, an endeavor inspired by seeing the former Clinton cabinet member lecture two weeks ago in nearby Campbell, Calif.   I got there … Continue reading →

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I saw the figure ‘5’ in green

Posted on November 12, 2015 by markweiss86

And then I noted the shape of the couch and thought in resembled the descender in the “5” but a student started to sit there and I asked her to move to get my shot, which provoked a brief exchange … Continue reading →

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