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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

Ripple Effect Thursday Aug 21 @ Mitchell Park

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86
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Katya and Helen of Gelataio on Lytton

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86
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Spoon NYT Mag by Dan Kois

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Dan Kois profiles Britt Daniel and Spoon in The New York Times Magazine. Nice photos. New cd. Are in SF for big crowded festival but I savor taste in mouth from 1997 intimate taste-maker event I produced here at the … Continue reading →

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Our neighbors Ivonne Baker and Nancy Pleibel, plus their dogs Picasso, Peaches and Ginger, enjoying Kaitlin McGaw from a safe distance Thursday at Cogswell Plaza

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86
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Hudba to Terri Hinte

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Not much of an item but I had a nice brief chat with publicist Terri Hinte of Richmond, Cali. She works for, among many, many others, Mimi Jones. Mimi Jones, also known as Miriam Sullivan. Miriam Sullivan, born in the … Continue reading →

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Horsefeathers at JJ&F

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Why we are at it, why don’t we vette the developer of Alma Plaza and his relationship with his grocer tenant, the one that filed for bankruptcy soon after opening, which is a public document and seems to say, according … Continue reading →

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Speak friend and enter

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

I hear Palantir has a new technology, call it a time-machine, with which it will be sending key employees back to 1974 to purchase homes in Palo Alto at the prices they deserve. A beta version of this over-shot considerably … Continue reading →

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Carol Garsten of Nature Gallery and Barron Park

Posted on August 7, 2014 by markweiss86

Carol Garsten is my friend of about five years, whose business Nature Gallery relocated from Town and Country to downtown Los Altos in 2012, but is still a Palo Altan and in fact lives in Barron Park, which I consider … Continue reading →

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The Buddy story

Posted on August 7, 2014 by markweiss86

charles n_ tuck 97 miami of amanda.boughman@tuck.dartmouth.edu Mr. N_, Tuck ’97 and Tuck MBA advisory board: I met the Ms. N_, her friend, and her friend’s dog in front of Peet’s Coffee in Palo Alto this a.m., on the strength … Continue reading →

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Bennett Porter v. Bennett Paster

Posted on August 7, 2014 by markweiss86

Bennett Paster is a Brooklyn-based piano player and composer, who led an amazing jam last night at Stanford’s CoHo — the Stanford Jazz Workshop or Stanford Jazz Institute faculty all-star jam — featuring Julian Lage, Alvin Lin, a Colombian percussionist, … Continue reading →

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