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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

The First Official Groupie! It’s me!

Posted on May 15, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Eat Paint Dance:
It truly is a small world!  In September I went to the local Salsa festival and happened upon an ad for the Pacific Mambo Orchestra.  Looking at it I noticed that the band leader…

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Au revoir for Monique’s Chocolates at 359 Bryant Street

Posted on May 15, 2014 by markweiss86

I was Cathy Hubbell West’s first customer Thursday at Monique’s Chocolates of Palo Alto. Due to my furious chatter, it took her 30 minutes to make me a cold hot chocolate drink. It took me less than a minute to … Continue reading →

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Ernesto’s TopLine Giants gear on 3rd Street Frisco

Posted on May 14, 2014 by markweiss86

If you find yourself under-dressed on your way to a Giants game, stop in to see Ernesto “Neto” Solis at his new Top Line Apparel gallery and salon / hang at 5009 3rd Street. as i did go giants edit … Continue reading →

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Laura Jacobson and H.R. Giger

Posted on May 13, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m a fan of Palo Alto ceramicist Laura Jacobson (whose brother Mark was a year behind me at Gunn but 12 places ahead of me on the tennis ladder). I checked out some of her new work at her Palo … Continue reading →

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Tribute to Jacob Koopee

Posted on May 13, 2014 by markweiss86

Tribute to Jacob Koopee by Barbara Weiss and Mark Weiss Jacob Koopee was a great Hopi potter who died recently at a very young age. I never met him but I have seen several of his masterful works. My mom … Continue reading →

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Blue Melody, Tender Mercies, Ball and Bennett

Posted on May 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Part of my conversational riff or rifflet with Marcia Ball and her crew included name-checking “Inside Llewyn Davis” while speaking to bass player Bennett, who hails from a part of Texas depicted in Joel and Ethan Coen’s film, based on … Continue reading →

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Emma Goldman and the revolution dance

Posted on May 12, 2014 by markweiss86

At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear … Continue reading →

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Party time with Marcia Ball y’all

Posted on May 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Marcia Ball sat for me three times Sunday. The first time, ok, she was sitting at her piano, cross-legged in a skirt, flapping her flip-flop sandal to the beat, her fingers flying across the board, like two acoma hawks herding … Continue reading →

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Santa Clara red or black?

Posted on May 10, 2014 by markweiss86

In New Mexico, it is customary to ask “red or green?” but it could be just as customary to ask “black or red?” the latter referring to Santa Clara Pueblo pottery rather than to chile. For tomorrow’s new acquisitions, we … Continue reading →

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Fake five with Chet

Posted on May 9, 2014 by markweiss86

I’ve got five minutes to fake my way thru a post about Chet Faker, the Aussie chill-rapper from Downtown Records (Gnarls Barkley >> Brett Dennen), coming to SF’s The Independent next week, before my battery runs down. 1. He’s Melbourne … Continue reading →

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