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the 919, another indie hub, home to superchunk, archers of loaf, merge, mammoth, carrboro, shrimp and grits at crooks corner, the university, where I once saw a raushenberg show, yardleys

Future history of modern cities slash Palo Alto

Posted on April 14, 2014 by markweiss86

If I run for Palo Alto City Council in fall, 2014 I will likely either read above or at least read Jonathan Yardley’s review of such, and drop the name of the book during any public fora about development here. … Continue reading →

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Too longish lift of Yardley on Gioia: Or, The History of Jazz/Palo Alto ctnd.

Posted on April 14, 2014 by markweiss86

“Jazz has always been a music of fusion. ‘Nothing from New Orleans is ever pure’ — so goes an old throwaway phrase. But even by Crescent City standards, early jazz was an especially complex melange. The Southern mentality that obsessively … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto the incubator

Posted on October 5, 2013 by markweiss86

Not only did Palo Alto lose Facebook to Menlo Park, but it apparently tried to fine thefacebook $250 per day in 2005 because the artist they hired to paint their original headquarters, David Choe, spilled white paint on the parking … Continue reading →

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Gallery of posters and flyers, Earthwise Productions, 1994-2009

Posted on April 22, 2013 by markweiss86

art direction credits at bottom of scroll; photos by Terry Acebo Davis (this one was based on artwork accompanying an article in the Rolling Stone about the fact that Texas, especially during the tenure of Governor Bush, had executed so … Continue reading →

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I’m trying to post Olivia Tremor Control live at Cubberley from April, 1999

Posted on April 4, 2013 by markweiss86

Somebody captured and then delivered to me a cdr of Olivia Tremor Control at Cubberley Community Center (auditorium), from April 24, 1999. All told, I have about 40 hours of music from the 150 or so shows I produced there, … Continue reading →

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Yardley’s ‘Brave Dragons’ hits the mark

Posted on March 21, 2013 by markweiss86

CHINA CAGERS BOOK A ‘SWISH’ BUT NOT ‘SWISHY’ From Carolina Blue to ‘His ass is blue’ in reporter’s hoops odyssey Jim Yardley’s “Brave Dragons” can be read two ways, at least; one, as a basketball book that takes place in … Continue reading →

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From VTA to Vatican for former Gunn High journalist

Posted on March 14, 2013 by markweiss86

Jim Yardley reports in The New York Times today from Vatican City on the surprise choice of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis. In 1981 I edited his first byline, an article about Gunn High students who took what is now … Continue reading →

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If you’ve ever had the shrimp and grits from Crooks Corner, you may also put Clyde Jones in your pantheon, and this film with that one of Picasso

Posted on December 2, 2012 by markweiss86

Well, piss on a stick. If it’s just a link, and not an M bed, I ain’t gonna waste a whole post on it. Ok. now it works (excuse the foul language. I don’t recall ever saying “piss on a … Continue reading →

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Song of the day: Kimchi Line by Bho Bhoman

Posted on June 8, 2012 by markweiss86

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Sweet smell of spilled coffee (from Iraq)

Posted on April 9, 2012 by markweiss86

Pre-empting the other fifty things I was either going to do or write about potentially doing this fine spring morning, I am pitching my old pal Jim Yardley the Pulitzer laureate about writing something about Global Heritage Fund in Palo … Continue reading →

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