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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

Joe 90 v. Joe 90

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

I never heard of Joe 90 until my cousin Craig told me that his band had changed it’s name to it, to wit:

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Happy 90th birthday, Joseph Zirker and good luck at art show opening Thursday in Palo Alto

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

From our friends at Art Center: Thursday, August 14, 6-8 p.m. Palo Alto Art Center, Meeting Room FREE Join us on Thursday for refreshments (and cake!) as we celebrate the 90th birthday of internationally recognized local artist Joseph Zirker, and … Continue reading →

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Britt of 534 Ramona (from series of casual portraits of people I meet oftentimes)

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Years ago, before I moved back to Palo Alto from San Francisco I worked in ad agencies as a freelance copywriter and also had some of my own small clients. In that spirit I toured the then-new store on Ramona … Continue reading →

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Hoops legend endorses former player for Palo Alto City Council

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

(my coach Hans Delannoy strolled Cubberley campus today and talked about old times. Hans led Gunn to league championships in 1980 and 1981 and was California Coach of the Year for leading San Ramon girls to a section championship in … Continue reading →

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Meet Mike Cassidy and eat Chinese Tuesday

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

TASC event — news to me Mike Cassidy August 12th Women and Computing: The Promise Denied Mike Cassidy, former Silicon Valley Dispatches columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, and currently the storyteller at BloomReach, a big data marketing application … Continue reading →

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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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Shazbot

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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