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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

Giant Steps from Stanley to Ted to Plastic Alto

Posted on April 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Stanley Jordan’s “Friends” cd, from 2011 on Grosse-Point-based Mack Avenue features he and Mike Stern (with Kenwood Dennard restricting himself to the pacing) working thru a unique arrangement of “Giant Steps”, the prodigious contribution to the canon by John Coltrane. … Continue reading →

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Red or Green Native American former mascots

Posted on April 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Disregarding the copyright

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Earthwise Spylist: Average Joes, of Nashville and Atlanta (on Plastic Alto)

Posted on April 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Noah Gordon, of Sparta, Illinois outside St. Louis, Southern Illinois, if you think Miles Davis and Walt Frazier more than Muddy Waters and Ron Santo, has a label in Nashville and Atlanta called Average Joes. I wanted to see what … Continue reading →

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Hurray For the Riff Raff at Independent in SF on April 22 Earthday

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

I only heard of this band via The New Yorker, but they are on ATO and apparently have sold out The Independent for a show on April 22 which is also, for some people, Earth Day. Hurray for Hurray For … Continue reading →

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23 small New Yorker Caroliner Plastic alters

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

1. Abe Rosenthal has a book on the murder of Kitty Genovese, three letters to the editor, regarding something published March 10, 2014; 2. Alynda Lee Segarra, 27, Hurray for the Riff Raff, of New Orleans, part of the American … Continue reading →

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A dose of kudos for Dan Fagin

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

Kudos to Dan Fagin ’85, Pulitzer-Prize-winning former Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth. What I remember most about his directorate was them sitting around the lounge in Robinson Hall watching “The McLaughlin Group”and their banter and discussion would soon escalate to drown … Continue reading →

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Future history of modern cities slash Palo Alto

Posted on April 14, 2014 by markweiss86

If I run for Palo Alto City Council in fall, 2014 I will likely either read above or at least read Jonathan Yardley’s review of such, and drop the name of the book during any public fora about development here. … Continue reading →

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Too longish lift of Yardley on Gioia: Or, The History of Jazz/Palo Alto ctnd.

Posted on April 14, 2014 by markweiss86

“Jazz has always been a music of fusion. ‘Nothing from New Orleans is ever pure’ — so goes an old throwaway phrase. But even by Crescent City standards, early jazz was an especially complex melange. The Southern mentality that obsessively … Continue reading →

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Carlos Gonzalez v. Speedy Gonzalez

Posted on April 11, 2014 by markweiss86

          Actually as I posted this Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner hit a grand slam to put the Giants over the Rockies 6-3.   In a related matter, I found this photo I snapped of Colin Dieden … Continue reading →

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Amazing student show Youth Speaks Out at Palo Alto Art Center

Posted on April 11, 2014 by markweiss86

I saw some amazing student art from Gunn, Paly and Jordan students today at Palo Alto Art Center, part of the third Youth Speaks Out event. The pieces, drawings, painting, photography, graphics and ceramics, were from five PAUSD teachers’ and … Continue reading →

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