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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

When Fela met Nina

Posted on February 20, 2015 by markweiss86

When Fela Kuti met Nina Simone: edit to add: I’m Kidjo here, but jest for yucks I searched “nina” + “fela” to find that Ronald K. Brown /Evidence dance in Brooklyn BRIC did a piece in 2003 Come Ye that … Continue reading →

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Cheers for Henry Threadgill

Posted on February 20, 2015 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Memory Select: Journeys in Creative Music:
Threadgill at Yerba Buena. Via fullyaltered on Instagram. Henry Threadgill didn’t play a note at his recent Yerba Buena Center for the Arts performance, but the audience didn’t mind. He was…

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Give me Liberty

Posted on February 20, 2015 by markweiss86

Wedge Matsumoto wrote a nice piece about Henry Threadgill at YBCA recently but homey that I am, I skimmed the article for mention of Bay Area guitarist Liberty Ellman, who plays or did play for years in Thread’s sextet, Zooid. … Continue reading →

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Paly Campanile butt rap correspondent

Posted on February 19, 2015 by markweiss86

I haven’t finished my David Carr tribute, but am re-routing to post a quickie about Paly Campanile, the venerable publication still helmed, 63 years later by Esther The Woj Wojcicki, and its butt-rap correspondent, a kid named Bo Filed. Maybe … Continue reading →

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Bruce Conner book on Mabuhay Gardens

Posted on February 19, 2015 by markweiss86

Terry procured from Smith-Andersen fire sale a copy of a Bruce Conner book from Germany on the punk scene in SF in the 1980s. NRW Forum Kultur Und Wirtschaft. I may just post links to some of the bands documented … Continue reading →

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Gunn-Pinewood action by Doug Stringer: ‘Al Palo Alto’ faces Pinewood Murphy

Posted on February 19, 2015 by markweiss86

Doug Stringer shot about 80 plays of the Gunn-Pinewood game, probably Gunn’s best win of the season. Here “Al Palo Alto” also known as Alex Gil-Fernandez, looks like his namesake El Palo Alto towering over Pinewood senior Kyle Murphy. I … Continue reading →

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Holman channels Carlin in a dress

Posted on February 18, 2015 by markweiss86

Partial score 148,209 35,383 = trees I said softly, with a subtle fist pump, such that only PAUSD board elect Ken Dauber could likely hear, “Go, Gunn!” as Karen said that the Titans out bike the Vikes  839 to 805 … Continue reading →

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An homage to Greg Brown by Nia Taylor, 2014

Posted on February 18, 2015 by markweiss86
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Kona is still da bomb

Posted on February 17, 2015 by markweiss86

Terry and I went to Hawaii for a week in winter, 2013 about two years ago. Here is my late-breaking photo essay on such: This is us watching a sunset at a public beach in Kona, near a government energy … Continue reading →

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60 Days ’til the Luke

Posted on February 17, 2015 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Terry Acebo Davis :
Author at work with Darby! Darby and Tory Burches So I’m back in the studio again after a “visual block”. ? ? Entangled Sister Sangre ? ? My schiz world which is that  of…

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