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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

Black golfer Lee Elder, 87

Posted on December 3, 2021 by markweiss86

Edit to ad: early rising Gunn coach and teacher Jason Miller, the recent subject of a six minute national news feature, suggests a less ”cringy” headline to above. My smartphone meanwhile suggests an addendum of the folling: A summary or … Continue reading →

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Charlie O VS Charlie Hunter ‘Candy-O’

Posted on December 2, 2021 by markweiss86

WE NEED YOU: Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola make their Mitchell Park debut tomorrow around 8 by Earthwise Productions. Tickets available on EventBrite

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Is Phoebe Kim Palo Alto’s greatest lacrosse player all-time?

Posted on December 2, 2021 by markweiss86
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Palo Alto’s Helmuth cashes at World Series of Poker

Posted on December 2, 2021 by markweiss86

Phil Helmuth of Palo Alto made seven final tables at the recent World Series of Poker. He won his 16th bracelet, the world record, and left with more than a million dollar’s haul. Overall more than 10,000 players competed in … Continue reading →

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Amber lozenges (after Elif, Regan, Osip of Peet’s)

Posted on December 2, 2021 by markweiss86
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Presley Pavillion in Palo Alto proposed, yo

Posted on November 30, 2021 by markweiss86

Apropos of the recent discussion of building a public sector gym in Palo Alto, I want to suggest a related but much cheaper idea, to rename the gym at Cubberley “Presley Pavillion at Cubberley Center”. Bud Presley was a Cubberley … Continue reading →

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Happy chanukah and happy 147th birthday, in advance, dead French author Colette aka Gigi

Posted on November 29, 2021 by markweiss86

There’s a group of four scholars here at the Cafe on Middlefield, one of whom has two books cracke (open) simultaneously; they are reading “Gigi” in the original — talk about cognate — and are charmingly subtle counter-revolutionaries. The woman … Continue reading →

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Day of show: ghost of Lisa Fay Beatty at Bottom of the Hill today, Sunday, November 28, 2021

Posted on November 28, 2021 by markweiss86
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It was 20 years ago today, Maya Ford told the band to play

Posted on November 27, 2021 by markweiss86

Allison, Maya, Tori and Brett, or their avatars It had already been a long evolution for Palo Alto teen punks the Donnas. In eight years, they’d gone from junior high school metallicists as the Electrocutes to Ramones-worshippers, then Runaways avatars as the Donnas. The metalinfluences … Continue reading →

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Good luck, Kaya the ally of children; Kaya1 VS Kaya2

Posted on November 27, 2021 by markweiss86

I met Kaya twice, last Saturday and again today. I admit I forgot her name, had to dredge it from my photo feed. I thought I had posted this photo, on the left, the before, also known as Kaya1 to … Continue reading →

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