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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

Fourteen mostly Black acts at Hardly Strictly

Posted on September 25, 2022 by markweiss86
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STEVE POLTZ FREE CONCERT WEDNESDAY 9/28 5:30 PM LYTTON PLAZA

Posted on September 23, 2022 by markweiss86
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Earthwise welcomes ‘Hardrainsgonna Fall ‘22’

Posted on September 21, 2022 by markweiss86

Jack Tuttle Steve Poltz Mads Tolling et al Chase Elodia Claire Dickson Eytan Schillenger-Hyman  Liberty  Ellman & Ben Goldberg  Greenlief Amendola Adriana Camacho Torres as Trio Paz Lytton Plaza Palo Alto, General Order No.94301 September28October14 two thousand twenty two

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New pole at Lytton Plaza

Posted on September 19, 2022 by markweiss86

I’ve done more than a dozen concert events at Lytton Plaza, and pass by the plaza several times a week scouting street musicians and other happenings. So for Plastic Alto the blog construction at the Plaza resulting in the removal … Continue reading →

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Only five Dartmouthians have appeared in the baseball World Series

Posted on September 18, 2022 by markweiss86

According to the recent Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, only five Dartmouth alumni have played in the World Series. Red Rolfe Brad Ausmus Kyle Hendricks Mike Remlinger Jim Beattie  

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Huge exit for Thiel Fellow/ dropout: Adobe buys. Figma for $20b; investors earn 80x in 3 years

Posted on September 16, 2022 by markweiss86
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Six or seven more by Earthwise at Lytton Plaza before the weather turns

Posted on September 15, 2022 by markweiss86

  Steve Poltz at Lytton Plaza on a Wednesday. One 9/28/22 Mads Tolling group the next night, same place. Someone who got a 4.5 star review in Downbeat and my contact info named Chase Elodia and friends, from NYC, will be playing after. Two. And … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto welcomes home Cory Lerios performers known as Pablo Cruise

Posted on September 4, 2022 by markweiss86
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Doria lauded for her ‘FWA’

Posted on September 2, 2022 by markweiss86

 

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San Jose Mercury lauds Pablo Cruise as an all time great, in advance of their Palo Alto free show Saturday

Posted on September 1, 2022 by markweiss86

Pablo Cruise doesn’t often get its due. Yet, spend some hours grooving on those cool pop-rock albums from the ’70s and early ’80s — especially the platinum-plus-selling “A Place in the Sun” and follow-up “Worlds Away” — and it should … Continue reading →

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