Category Archives: art

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Broadway By The Bay’s 53rd season artistic director Alicia Jeffrey w John Travolta Tony Manero 2 min solo

Posted on August 14, 2018 by markweiss86

Ine owe ahm ah homer but I prefer Ms Jeffrey…ahm jess sayin’. The movie was made for $3m, grossed $300m and featured some incredible indelible performances

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Stone v. Lunt

Posted on August 14, 2018 by markweiss86

Caption: A civil servant named Kimberly Lunt leads a group of children on a tour of Palo Alto’s City Hall, on May 29, 2018 while nearby a group of our finest gather in blue (not like the trees) following a … Continue reading →

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If not ‘all saints’ then five or six of them

Posted on August 14, 2018 by markweiss86
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I met Dana Moret the vocalist at Fremont Art and Wine Festival

Posted on August 5, 2018 by markweiss86

She was singing mostly 1970s rock belters (with a great young guitarist power trio) but she said she also sings with Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, from Sacramento. Noticing this version of “Bobby McGee” it reminded me of Seth Morgan, … Continue reading →

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The remarkable JVB

Posted on August 4, 2018 by markweiss86

Coming attraction about a local artist I admire.

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Artist studio, Palo Alto

Posted on August 2, 2018 by markweiss86
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Mem Chu

Posted on August 2, 2018 by markweiss86
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Before there was ‘fake news’ there was Stew, The Negro Problem and ‘Birdcage’

Posted on August 2, 2018 by markweiss86

But what does Robert Hilburn know about rock and roll? (And for whatever reason I am hearing Stew all the time last couple of days and even leaving bad renditions of falsetto la-la’s on voice mail of poor innocents…which reminds … Continue reading →

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A butterfly affect

Posted on July 30, 2018 by markweiss86

I’m a gonna speak to City Council in about 30 minutes, after 14 or so speakers, about butterflies literally and metaphorically. Eleanor Laney, Palo Alto Garden Club, was tabling at California Avenue farmers’ market Sunday about monarch butterflies and planting … Continue reading →

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Draft of a letter to editor of Palo Alto Post about how stupid they are in their reporting on public art

Posted on July 30, 2018 by markweiss86

Dear Editor: I’m beginning to wonder why you mention Bo Crane so many times in your paper —especially second to last page, or cover three, or Page 11 — when you didn’t for example mention Manuel Neri (b. 1930) a … Continue reading →

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