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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

Yeh for Microsoft Store Opening

Posted on April 19, 2012 by markweiss86

I’m not on a drug. But I got all goose-bumpy at the grand opening at Stanford Shopping a Simon Property merely to be within 48 hours and one thousand yards of Adam Levine and his band, who I estimated will rake in about three hundred thousand dollars for their playing along and pomping and circumstancing. Continue reading →

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You Are Plural band at SFMOMA museums

Posted on April 17, 2012 by markweiss86

I hesitate to call You Are Plural a singular sensation. I caught their set at SFMOMA members party Saturday but could not stay to harass them or buy what looked to be pretty cool little needlepoint patches or somesuch homemadities, … Continue reading →

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Topps Baseball, Fang or Maroon 5

Posted on April 17, 2012 by markweiss86

One of these days is coming “The Purloined Gehrig” but until then find yourselves a merry little Harris and Boyd or skim this and then rush back to the airwaves or a local watering hole; let’s play eight or nine, cards I procured today and punted other things to get to, I mean I walked the elephant to pitch to the giraffe. Continue reading →

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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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