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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

Seraph Brass on-sale in Palo Alto, September 28 at the JCC, by Earthwise

Posted on July 11, 2023 by markweiss86

This is a $50 ticket which is pricey by my standard but there’s 5,000 years of baggage to cover; I would submit it’s a bargain compared to paying $1,500 for the worst possible seats for Taylor Swift at the football … Continue reading →

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I can’t believe how good looking I was back in 1988, with Dr. Brian Moore at The Getty

Posted on July 9, 2023 by markweiss86
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Yo or oy?

Posted on July 9, 2023 by markweiss86

      I have a riff about meeting today at Bird and Beckett’s Tammy Fortin, a musician who has a day job at the Stanford Museum. I remember meeting her briefly about eight years ago, mistaking her for someone … Continue reading →

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Friends, Romans, Palo Altans— lend me your ears

Posted on July 9, 2023 by markweiss86
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Glad I’m McGurl

Posted on July 3, 2023 by markweiss86

OPEN LETTER TO McGURL: I hope this is not seen as a rant or gripe, but more like what Wendell Berry would call “another turn of the crank”. Please take it on faith or prima facie that I have some … Continue reading →

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Buskers at Lytton Plaza who do nothing but K-pop arranged for electric guitar and vocal duet

Posted on July 2, 2023 by markweiss86

Band Kori from USC; she’s working at.Tesla this summer edit to add:  

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Ermer Robinson v. Eugene Robinson

Posted on July 2, 2023 by markweiss86
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Quickie post about post post posts, and polls and poles

Posted on July 2, 2023 by markweiss86

I do not know who Anohni is nor whether he is a he or she is a she or they is they. But it caught my eye that the mother was a photographer and the father was an engineer who … Continue reading →

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Give me a ‘G’, Cubberley

Posted on June 25, 2023 by markweiss86

Gregg Rolie. His former high school, which closed in 1980, had a reunion today for about 50 members of the Gunn class of ‘81– those who spent two years at each school. “Gregg Rolie” was a clue in a game; he’s … Continue reading →

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Earthwise to host ‘Western Edition’ jazz combo at Lucie Stern courtyard Wednesday eve

Posted on June 25, 2023 by markweiss86

Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto is hosting a jazz concert Wednesday at Lucie Stern Community Center Courtyard featuring the jazz combo known as ‘Western Edition’. ‘Western Edition’ combines originals – -written by its members – and covers by forebears such … Continue reading →

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