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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

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman w. Rene Marie ‘Lift Every Voice’

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markweiss86

(Congrats to Rene Marie, aka Rene Marie Croan and Rene Marie Stevens for Grammy nomination for Motema Records. I met Rene Marie, with Pete Douglas and Reggie Marshall and a lovely pasta dinner in Half Moon Bay a few years … Continue reading →

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Kate Lee Short the Oculus w. Dave Ellis various

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markweiss86

OR TO MY COI MISTRESS Seven p.m. to approximately 7:20 finds me, lweatcdr, as opposed to weat, at Palo Alto Art Center, party for “Hear This” sculpture and rather hip noises, and perchance peeps, then I am off to my … Continue reading →

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Terry and I at Cantor lecture imagining dinner

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

(I will have to update this and despite how it looks –and the vagaries of my handheld — we liked Alyson Shotz and her presentation and did not day dream about dinner. And that is not Terry and I in … Continue reading →

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Laddie and me

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86
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Tana, Franks and McCain confirmed for Palo Alto jazz panel

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling and they kissed each other for a long, long timeK.V. Three jazz musicians with local ties headline a panel discussion for the … Continue reading →

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Jack Del Rio and Lisa M. Snyder

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

Vic Tafur page 1 the Chron has a puff piece on former Hayward High great Jack Del Rio, 51, the new Raiders head coach. I distinctly recall asking my former The Dartmouth colleague Lisa M. Sndyer, a Hayward ’83 about … Continue reading →

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‘Close Gitmo’

Posted on January 21, 2015 by markweiss86
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Palo Alto Forward

Posted on January 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I said, promptly deleted by Censor In Charged at Palo Alto Weekly: Palo Alto Forward members are the policy equivalent to Ring Girls at a boxing match: they look good, their message is oversimplified, they take their orders from somebody … Continue reading →

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Je suis Jim Yardley

Posted on January 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I doubt we ran Jim Yardley’s first byline above the fold page one of the Oracle, at Henry M. Gunn High of Palo Alto — something about middle class students using public transportation to school, spring 1981 — but his … Continue reading →

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More Blacks! More Poles! More Freaks!

Posted on January 19, 2015 by markweiss86
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