This gallery contains 2 photos.
Francisco Guilledo was world champion boxer, but died young and fought using a pseudonym based on the Mexican anti-hero, Pancho Villa. I saw the Joan Baez portrait, a detail of a larger work, at the Paly 100th year reception, in … Continue reading
This gallery contains 8 photos.
Weiss: This started with, and maybe I should not admit, something triggering a memory of a dirty joke I read in Playboy magazine years ago about a businessman playing golf in Japan but not speaking the language too well … Continue reading
The next morning Duffy and I cane upon some colorful flowers:
We have a Arnautoff mural here in Palo Alto at the old medical building that is becoming a history museum. The controversy here was that it showed a woman’s bosom as she is being checked by the male doc. New … Continue reading
edit to add: the reviewer in the New York Times says it’s not really a spoiler because your understanding of the film is contingent of knowing something of the impending doom of the Tate LoBianca murders. And I admit I … Continue reading
…compared to a long block of copy observable on a bathing woman’s right thigh….
John Santos confirmed his lineup for the Palo Alto show: The John Santos Quintet plus special guests Charlie Gurke – saxes Marco Diaz – piano Saul Sierra – bass David Flores – drums John Santos – percussion I will update … Continue reading
I passed through the plastic arts show yesterday afternoon just long enough to meet, in the courtyard of the Art Center, near the Oliveira bronze lady, Willow Teller, a young ceramicist from Palo Alto. I had noticed her work, a … Continue reading
| Douglas Tatelman on Zasu Pitts at the New Varsity,… | |
 | pbridge130 on Life as strange as fiction in… |
 | Rob Murphy on Anita Wheeler Raiderette Fan C… |
 | Timothy Girard on RedVette Band, 1981 |
 | petriverse on Don Cherry at Dartmouth |
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 