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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

Dao, digressions, dreaming and diaspora

Posted on May 4, 2011 by markweiss86

I am paraphrasing but in Dao’s chapbook she reveals that when she first came to the U.S. and was living in a refugee camp the other children would shout her name “Tieu-Dao” and she would try to disassociate or self-negate in some way by replying “Not Tieu…Not Dao”… Continue reading →

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(good luck) finding jupiter at coho thursday

Posted on May 3, 2011 by markweiss86

http://www.youtube.com/FindingJupiterMusic#p/u/5/_ka0Sx58I2I I just found out that the local band whose show I was plugging at Stanford Thursday had to postpone. So I have updated quite neatly my previous post’s headline to say “good luck” if you are trying to find the band Thursday … Continue reading →

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Larry “New Blood…New Ideas” Klein

Posted on May 2, 2011 by markweiss86

Stop the presses! Or stop, using the DVR pause button, your telecast of City Council and run to your computer and post a picture of Larry Klein, a propos of the incumbent candidacies of three Historic Resources Board commissioners, at … Continue reading →

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Finding Jupiter at CoHo this Thursday, May 5

Posted on May 2, 2011 by markweiss86

i am still wondering about the stanford ska project, and plan to get josh roseman involved when he comes to town for SLA next fall… Continue reading →

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PA(tch): or, PA!!!

Posted on May 2, 2011 by markweiss86

leonard koppett, who is in the sportswriters’ wing of the baseball hall of fame, in semi-retirement from the new york herald, was our editor in chief. mario dianda the editor of the daily news was a county reporter. ray ratto was a sports columnist and would take naps on koppett’s couch. Continue reading →

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Ode to William J

Posted on May 1, 2011 by markweiss86

Bill Cunningham is not a basketball legend but in this case the New York Times photographer whose assortment of candid fashion photos comprise the popular Sunday feature “On The Street.” He is also the subject of a documentary by Richard … Continue reading →

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Nellie, Ian, Steve and I

Posted on April 28, 2011 by markweiss86

I once barged into an interview that Steve Horowitz of Pop Matters was conducting in the lobby of the Driskill Hotel in Austin during SXSW2009 and put Nellie McKay on the phone with Ian MacKaye and just noticed, two years … Continue reading →

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eARTh day and Oliveira

Posted on April 22, 2011 by markweiss86

I wrote a letter to Palo Alto Weekly about how we as a community (town and not gown) should do something to honor the legacy of painter and teacher (and father, and husband and neighbor) Nathan Oliveira, 1928-2010. At the … Continue reading →

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Pinetop Perkins, 1913-2011

Posted on April 21, 2011 by markweiss86

pinetop’s boogie woogie came through palo alto’s cubberley center when he was 86 Continue reading →

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Uh-huh, her

Posted on April 21, 2011 by markweiss86

let england shake and wear interesting hats to the royal wedding Continue reading →

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