Category Archives: ethniceities

when i say ethniceities i mean “jewish”

Musician to recreate Portola expedition, using car, guitar, original songs, social media, wry wit

Posted on January 30, 2015 by markweiss86

Marin-based troubadour Jerry Hannan today and tonight will tip his hat to Portola, who in 1769 left San Diego with 50 men and 50 mules, sought Monterrey Bay — then only searchable by sea — and wound up camping under … Continue reading →

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Franco to play Sherman in Hollywood biopic

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86

James Franco, the polyglot Paly grad, will play Richard Sherman, the Compton thug turned Stanford pedant turned Seahawk Icarus-by-way-of-Butkus in a deal announced simultaneous via Skype in Phoenix and Park City. Sherman himself will play all the other characters, ala … Continue reading →

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Subdural pacino bleeding

Posted on January 24, 2015 by markweiss86

PANIC GROWING OVER GOO LOS ANGELES — An Al Pacino movie broke out in the middle of a concert by the band Chicago, with thousands of fans serving as extras. Cameras were wheeled onstage during intermission of the group’s show … Continue reading →

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Ben Goldberg Orphic hit with 9 musicians at YBCA

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markweiss86

Ben Goldberg and I spoke briefly the other day about his upcoming hit at YBCA, and he emphasized that this is the only live performance of a project with a new cd he recorded and his releasing Orphic Machine, featuring … Continue reading →

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Terry and I at Cantor lecture imagining dinner

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

(I will have to update this and despite how it looks –and the vagaries of my handheld — we liked Alyson Shotz and her presentation and did not day dream about dinner. And that is not Terry and I in … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto Forward

Posted on January 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I said, promptly deleted by Censor In Charged at Palo Alto Weekly: Palo Alto Forward members are the policy equivalent to Ring Girls at a boxing match: they look good, their message is oversimplified, they take their orders from somebody … Continue reading →

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Je suis Jim Yardley

Posted on January 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I doubt we ran Jim Yardley’s first byline above the fold page one of the Oracle, at Henry M. Gunn High of Palo Alto — something about middle class students using public transportation to school, spring 1981 — but his … Continue reading →

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Paul Cohen joins the set of immortals

Posted on January 18, 2015 by markweiss86

Well, that plus the picture in the LBJ archive and 1, 3 days later: Steve and Eric Cohen and I earned our MOCL degrees yesterday at Stanford, Masters of Creative Loafing. We went by Sloan the math building where Paul … Continue reading →

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Mark B. Weiss the millionaire developer

Posted on January 15, 2015 by markweiss86

I am not Mark B. Weiss the millionaire developer. I spoke to Mark B. Weiss the millionaire developer, and author while on tour, in Chicago. He happened to have a shingle hanging around the corner from my appointment, with a … Continue reading →

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Selma and Louise

Posted on January 9, 2015 by markweiss86

Colman Domingo plays Abernathy in the new biopic hagiography about MLK, while a Nigerian Brit named David Oyelowo plays the Nobel laureate martyred peace activist and leader. I would do the opposite, have Colman Domingo as MKL and Big O … Continue reading →

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