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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

Bruce Lee of Dallas Austin Yard Dog w John Coltrane Don Cherry Albert Ayler et al

Posted on February 19, 2022 by markweiss86
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Eight minute exegesis of ’Men in Boats’ (John Wesley Powell 1869) by Wallace Stegner and Mark Weiss

Posted on February 19, 2022 by markweiss86
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Stanford clinches championship on tv

Posted on February 18, 2022 by markweiss86
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Tim Gray, Mark Weiss, Gail Price, fall, 2009 at Smith-Andersen studios, Pepper Street, Palo Alto

Posted on February 18, 2022 by markweiss86
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Music hall of fame news/noise (after Kahneman, 2021)

Posted on February 18, 2022 by markweiss86
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Earthwise announces three-part spring jazz series in Palo Alto

Posted on February 18, 2022 by markweiss86

  I have three confirmed shows for spring, all jazz, but at two locations: Or Barekat Quartet, Lytton Plaza, free show, Monday, April 18, 2002 6 p.m. Ben Goldberg/Scott Amendola/Todd Sickafoose Trio — sometimes and formerly known as Plays Monk, … Continue reading →

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Jesus Shuttleworth at CCS

Posted on February 17, 2022 by markweiss86

Jesus Shuttlesworth at CCS Rather than a CCS basketball tourney, like the one my team played so many years ago, the powers that be have declared the Catholics League the winner of CCS title; they will celebrate such with a … Continue reading →

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Pluck out every brick and Stone

Posted on February 16, 2022 by markweiss86

If he is currently employed by PAUSD, shouldn’t he recuse? Greer is not employed by PAUSD and if he was he’d employ the  same high ethical standards he did when he recused himself for the tenant relocation matter when it … Continue reading →

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Or: There and Back Again

Posted on February 15, 2022 by markweiss86

We love it at the Fillmore and the Music HallThe Earl in Atlanta and the Turf in St. PaulThe Exit, The Basement, The Ryman gotta play ’em allThe Capitol stage where Jerry playedThe Troubadour where dreams are madeLet’s get on … Continue reading →

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A shotgun appears, and 26 years later is fired in Berkeley

Posted on February 14, 2022 by markweiss86

In September, 1995 The Negro Problem performed in Palo Alto opening for Cake, and a Black person went around town pulling down our posters because he thought we were KKK, and he called my office and I explained— Stew has … Continue reading →

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