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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

Samantha Lee’s “Scuba” w. Sandra Wang known as SCUBA

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

I think I met Samantha Lee an artist, and shot a swede of one of the works hanging, in a boutique on Grant at North Beach. She did write her name or URL somewhere. I think the below is one … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86
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Proposed ballot argument against local measure D on council composition

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Shall the Palo Alto City Charter be amended to change the number of Council Member seats from nine to seven, commencing on January 1, 2019? Henry David Thoreau famously said, “who governs best governs least” but in the same essay, … Continue reading →

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Gunn graffiti update or lack thereof, with Herrman here

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

I am still researching and trying to get traction on the purported “graffiti hate crime” of May, 2014, that included, as was reported in the Oracle and perhaps here “Thank God Villalobos is gone”. I wrote a letter to Chief … Continue reading →

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Sarah Sunde piece Aug. 15 check it

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

from Palo Alto Weekly, although I did hit her by email precedingly; She is Einar Sunde’s daughter, mainly based in New York Palo Alto native and Paly class of ’95’s Sarah Cameron Sunde, now a New York-based director and performance … Continue reading →

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The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten songs, by Greil Marcus and Mark Weiss, or Grweisl Markus

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Call me pathetic call me what you will just don’t call me late to Cibo: “America has become amnesiac,” says Henry Giroux, “a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.” … Continue reading →

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Swimming in Bengal

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Lather Records:
I recently got together with Sacramento improvisational champ Tony Passerell to try some Indian raga-ish jams with tabla/percussionist Alex Jenkins.  Some stuff from our first get together can be downloaded for free.  I played my…

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Kimmelman on Ray Johnson, circa 2002

Posted on August 10, 2014 by markweiss86

Look to your left (Liberty Street) and you will see the small turn-of-the-century French pastry in creamy, classically-detailed stone that housed the neighboring Chamber of Commerce. To your right (Cedar Street) is a stone-faced building of the first great skyscraper … Continue reading →

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Sane endorsement, strange interlude

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86

I got a tour of 801 Alma from a resident who felt some dissatisfaction with the management of the new PAHC building, based on the perceived lack of community among the resident, who moved in about a year ago. I … Continue reading →

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Mads Tolling Highlights the Twilight, August 16 in Palo Alto

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86

Mads Tolling Quartet plays the City of Palo Alto parks concert series, The Twilight, Saturday August 16. To my mind, as someone who has run Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto for 20 years, and produced more than 200 shows here, … Continue reading →

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