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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

Jazz funeral for Stella Brooks

Posted on May 27, 2011 by markweiss86

I’m a little piece of leather, don’t you know? Continue reading →

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Addi the balloon bass guy

Posted on May 20, 2011 by markweiss86

addi somekh the former kfjc improv jazz dj has found his 15 minutes via the balloon bass Continue reading →

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Terry Acebo Davis as virtual open studio installation

Posted on May 19, 2011 by markweiss86

Terry Acebo Davis has been too committed to her role as chair of the Palo Alto Public Arts Commission to make a trove of new work, but I cajoled her into showing one piece at her studio, at 4030 Transport … Continue reading →

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Pan of “Pink”: or, my brother the asymptote

Posted on May 18, 2011 by markweiss86

the surprising truth about banality of trendy group think books of the month Continue reading →

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JC Brooks is Passing Strange

Posted on May 18, 2011 by markweiss86

Passing Strange in chicago, back where it all started for this signifying monkey. Continue reading →

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Thurston Moore and Alden Van Buskirk

Posted on May 18, 2011 by markweiss86

blood never lies Continue reading →

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Wesley’s new bag

Posted on May 17, 2011 by markweiss86

Bob Dylan turns 70 on May 24 next week even. Continue reading →

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Fret de la musique

Posted on May 10, 2011 by markweiss86

we are the world here means that we are pretending that there is only the English language, spoken by white people, for no pay — the only people who get paid at Palo Alto’s “World Music” Day are the police. Where sour grapes meet dancing raisins, per haps. Continue reading →

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Why John Mickelthwait has 1.4 millions readers and I have 1.4 hundred

Posted on May 7, 2011 by markweiss86

I have spent about $100 on The Economist over the last 12 months. Continue reading →

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Myself when I am Patch

Posted on May 6, 2011 by markweiss86

It is 4:45 on a Saturday afternoon and I would rather be back on my bike heading across campus and catching some of the pow wow not here at a table in a chair tapping the keys to a computer, even a name-brand one. Continue reading →

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