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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

It wasn’t God who made honky tonk Anglim

Posted on April 17, 2012 by markweiss86

Clare Rojas the successful visual artist who performs and writes as Peggy Honeywell the slightly less successful musician has a new album out which you can hear for free here, at Soundcloud I mean. Actually, it may be that she … Continue reading →

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Rigo 12

Posted on April 12, 2012 by markweiss86

Rigo 23: Autonomous InterGalactic Space Program Rigo 23, “Autonomous InterGalactic Space Program – Corncob (Mazorca) Spaceship,” 2011-12. Photo: Santiago Marcial. Rigo 23, “Itacuruça,” 2010. Installation view, Berardo Foundation Museum, Lisbon, Portugal. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. … Continue reading →

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Eric Turner “Angels and Stars” on Leno

Posted on April 11, 2012 by markweiss86

with lupe fiasco tiny tempah and a band that could take the roots running fulls. plus or minus tarik trotter cooking show about sliding a banana into a tortilla, or that’s what I hearded, non Garrison style Continue reading →

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Three chords and the truth

Posted on April 9, 2012 by markweiss86

I am admittedly biased about Robert Glasper.  He is my best friend and my life partner.  He is also a brilliant musician… disclosure and disclaimers aside. –Angelika Beener, jazz writer and in Glasper’s circle. This made me laugh out loud and … Continue reading →

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Sweet smell of McGee

Posted on April 9, 2012 by markweiss86

Barry McGee  A special exhibition at our off-site space 1717 17th Street, San Francisco hours: Thursday – Saturday 11am -5pm April 14th – May 19th , 2012 Reception: April 14th from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m       Barry McGee and Friends … Continue reading →

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Sweet smell of spilled coffee (from Iraq)

Posted on April 9, 2012 by markweiss86

Pre-empting the other fifty things I was either going to do or write about potentially doing this fine spring morning, I am pitching my old pal Jim Yardley the Pulitzer laureate about writing something about Global Heritage Fund in Palo … Continue reading →

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Godspeed to Dayna Stephens

Posted on April 9, 2012 by markweiss86

Whatever I was going to write today was pre-empted by noticing this teaser above the mast in The Daily News: Sax Genius Doesn’t Let Kidney Troubles Slow Him Down. Dayna Stephens first appeared on my radar in 2007 when Peter … Continue reading →

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Thirty-three things I (might) write about on “Plastic Alto”

Posted on April 8, 2012 by markweiss86

1. Laurel Nakadate ‘The Wolf Knife”, free in Believer; 2. Andrew Bogut, and Kent Lockhart: Kent told me he once coached Bogut, who worked out with Dandenong, Kent’s old team, in 1997 as a teenager and guard; 3. A Passover … Continue reading →

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True professor and Lehrer

Posted on April 4, 2012 by markweiss86

Great interview between Michael Krasny and Jonah Lehrer right now on KQED — I am racing them to the top of the hour to post this entry of “Plastic Alto”. I had seen the article in yesterday’s Times about his … Continue reading →

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laura gibson took these photos from her van, and emailed them to her list

Posted on April 3, 2012 by markweiss86

          

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