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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

My favorite professor, historian Bruce Nelson, speaking in Seattle on the history of Blacks in the labor movement

Posted on July 21, 2021 by markweiss86

Harry Bridges advocated for including Blacks in the unions. Nelson has a book on the history of labor, I should order on-line (I thought I saw it at City Lights). I took Bruce Nelson’s history of the labor movement class … Continue reading →

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Lions with Wings update

Posted on July 20, 2021 by markweiss86

I started Lions With Wings while I was in the bubble, trying to avoid getting a deathly virus. So far, so good. I am healthy. Even better, I am back in the concert biz, with 3 shows on sale, for … Continue reading →

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SuperMo

Posted on July 20, 2021 by markweiss86

‘m hereby announcing a Mac McCaughan tribute band called SuperMo that features Mark Weiss on not quite tuneful vocals, Steve Rothblatt on congas, and an assorted and rotating and non-repeating cast of other not quite melodic or rhythmic side peoples, … Continue reading →

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Jenny Scheinman (w Finn Taylor) vs Aleta Hayes (w Jack Tuttle)

Posted on July 20, 2021 by markweiss86

I just got word that a Jenny Scheinman project has been announced for onsale at Stanford Live Arts, for January, 2022. It’s called “Kannapolis” and is a performance piece that combines live performance of written and improv music in reaction … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Folau Niua, Olympian from East Palo Alto (Woodside HS)

Posted on July 20, 2021 by markweiss86

  There are also seven female soccer players from Stanford including a couple with peninsula prep ties, plus Maddie Price the former Menlo High sprinter, competing for Canada.

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New arts center in East Palo Alto

Posted on July 19, 2021 by markweiss86

Just as a skateboarder sees a new plaza with benches and steps and thinks its a skatepark, when I hear tell of a new arts center in East Palo Alto, EPACenter at 1950 Bay Road, I think concert series in … Continue reading →

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Earthwise announces three-part free concert series at Palo Alto Art Center featuring Amendola, David James and La Doña

Posted on July 18, 2021 by markweiss86

  NOTE: LA DONA APPEARS LIVE IN PALO ALTO SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2021 AT MITCHELL PARK BOWL, 600 EAST MEADOW DRIVE, PRESENTED FREE BY EARTHWISE PRODUCTIONS — ADVANCE TICKETS AT EVENTBRITE

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Dos Palos

Posted on July 17, 2021 by markweiss86

This is an idea I had at the art center the first is Queene Amirian 1908 1988 she was a founder of the Art Center, Palo Alto citizens for a cultural center which opened in 1971. The second is a … Continue reading →

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La Doña in The Chroñ

Posted on July 15, 2021 by markweiss86

 

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The Black Index

Posted on July 14, 2021 by markweiss86

OK I will admit they’re only four of the preceding 20 Photos are actually art or detail of art that can be found in the excellent art exhibit the black index at the Palo Alto Art Center through August 14 … Continue reading →

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