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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

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Posted on October 16, 2011 by markweiss86

This is what democracy looks like: three versions, including six or seven young actors and playwrights giving it up under the name PMSTA. Continue reading →

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Beat Hotel Rm 32 Performs Howl

Posted on October 14, 2011 by markweiss86

starving hysterical naked Continue reading →

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Abraham Inc Nov. 13 at Zellerbach

Posted on October 12, 2011 by markweiss86

tweet tweet in the ludditte or fiddler on the roof TRADITION sense for David Krakauer, Socalled and Fred Wesley and their funk-klezmer unit Abraham Inc Continue reading →

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Singing seems to ease me

Posted on October 11, 2011 by markweiss86

I’ve been rocking an old cassette (probably documented and dubbed for me by David Schwartz of Fast Atmosphere) of Mother Hips live at Cubberley Center, January 19, 2001. The document is one of about 40 hours of tapes and cds … Continue reading →

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varsity update

Posted on October 11, 2011 by markweiss86

more updates on the Varsity project Continue reading →

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Stanley Jordan appearing this week at The Varsity I mean Yoshi’s SF

Posted on October 11, 2011 by markweiss86

i am tempted to get to SF to check in with Stanley Jordan to see if he will come to Palo Alto and do a benefit show for the people who are trying to get the lease on The Varsity. Stanley played Cubberley in 2001, and if memory serves did a benefit at Gunn High, his alma mater in about 1987 or so. Continue reading →

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Mark Weiss blog posts re The Varsity Theatre

Posted on October 6, 2011 by markweiss86

I’ve indexed here the nine or so posts regarding The Varsity here. There are also numerous posts to Palo Alto Weekly site, and a couple related contributions to Patch Palo Alto Continue reading →

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we interrupt this special broadcast of “ruby and the rockits” for

Posted on October 1, 2011 by markweiss86

i tried to re-form my high school newspaper staff to talk about the kingdom and the power and all i got was a trip to the moon. Continue reading →

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Orozco fresco at Dartmouth’s Baker Library reserve corridor

Posted on September 29, 2011 by markweiss86

jose clemente orozco born in 1883 died in 1949 one of the big three mexican muralists and I used to walk past this a couple times a week when i was an undergrad at dartmouth Continue reading →

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Are you ready for some PUEBLO?!

Posted on September 26, 2011 by markweiss86

yo microphone check one two what is this 15 photos of my trips to santa fe Continue reading →

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