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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

Ugly US congress member from Detroit supports and condones murderous terrorists in Israel areas ceded to Hamas

Posted on November 3, 2023 by markweiss86
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TONY, LIZZIE COMING 1/24

Posted on November 1, 2023 by markweiss86
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Be quick but don’t hurry: four more concerts, with a total of nearly 800 unsold seats

Posted on October 31, 2023 by markweiss86

  This is a bit redundant of Tuesday’s post, if you are a serial reader of Plastic Alto: I have four more productions, and a total of five shows coming up. Things are a little slow at the box office. … Continue reading →

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A November to remember

Posted on October 29, 2023 by markweiss86

Four final shows for Earthwise Earthwise culminates its year with four final productions in November. On Friday , November 3, at the Palo Alto Art Center, Jovia Armstrong Eunoia Society presents a cd release show. On Saturday November 11, at … Continue reading →

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Which one is you?

Posted on October 28, 2023 by markweiss86

Which one is you? I started my day by noticing my wife had rearranged my desk again, revealing the black and white print of our championship team, from 1981, in the locker room, one of us wearing a net around … Continue reading →

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We want it! Let’s get it! Bob Melvin new Giants skipper

Posted on October 25, 2023 by markweiss86
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oxymoron

Posted on October 23, 2023 by markweiss86

mark weiss, bear hotel rm 32, San Francisco, May, 2021 bw from my former neighbor  

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Bee’s knees jazz show by Chris Jonas group

Posted on October 20, 2023 by markweiss86

Chris Jonas,,reeds; Jason Levis, drums; Lisa Mezzacappa bass; Cory Wright, reeds, at Palo Alto Art Center, by Earthwise Productions October 20, 2023      

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Fuck the Astros and their oil company uniform ad

Posted on October 18, 2023 by markweiss86
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Tale of two Cubberleys

Posted on October 17, 2023 by markweiss86

The Palo Alto Weekly ran a picture of two geezers with medicine balls in an otherwise empty Cubberley hallway, to signify or suborn apathy about that important public asset. I think they’re thinking by publishing these weak messages that if … Continue reading →

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