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Zasu Pitts at the New Varsity, circa 1988

Posted on August 20, 2014 by markweiss86

Randy Lutge is the Les Blank of Palo Alto, and his New Orleans is the New Varsity. He has about 500 films of acts and artists performing live music there, 456 University, in the late 1980s and early 1990s when … Continue reading →

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Counting blue cars

Posted on August 14, 2014 by markweiss86

Outro, a number one modern rock hit by Dishwalla, on Pet Your Friends:

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Stanford garners Fields Prize

Posted on August 14, 2014 by markweiss86

Paul J. Cohen won the Fields Prize in 1966 for work he did on the continuum hypothesis in 1963 while living in Palo Alto, on Princeton Street in College Terrace (actually quite close to where Zuckerberg founded Facebook years later). … Continue reading →

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Britt of 534 Ramona (from series of casual portraits of people I meet oftentimes)

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Years ago, before I moved back to Palo Alto from San Francisco I worked in ad agencies as a freelance copywriter and also had some of my own small clients. In that spirit I toured the then-new store on Ramona … Continue reading →

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Kimmelman on Ray Johnson, circa 2002

Posted on August 10, 2014 by markweiss86

Look to your left (Liberty Street) and you will see the small turn-of-the-century French pastry in creamy, classically-detailed stone that housed the neighboring Chamber of Commerce. To your right (Cedar Street) is a stone-faced building of the first great skyscraper … Continue reading →

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Spoon NYT Mag by Dan Kois

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Dan Kois profiles Britt Daniel and Spoon in The New York Times Magazine. Nice photos. New cd. Are in SF for big crowded festival but I savor taste in mouth from 1997 intimate taste-maker event I produced here at the … Continue reading →

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Horsefeathers at JJ&F

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Why we are at it, why don’t we vette the developer of Alma Plaza and his relationship with his grocer tenant, the one that filed for bankruptcy soon after opening, which is a public document and seems to say, according … Continue reading →

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Speak friend and enter

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

I hear Palantir has a new technology, call it a time-machine, with which it will be sending key employees back to 1974 to purchase homes in Palo Alto at the prices they deserve. A beta version of this over-shot considerably … Continue reading →

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Brian Aubert v. Brian Auger

Posted on July 13, 2014 by markweiss86

I cannot be the first person to mistake Brian Auger for Brian Aubert. I told the bartender/barrista at Ace Hotel — the one who claims to be a drummer, that opened for or appeared with early Modest Mouse — that … Continue reading →

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Save The Varsity Act III, scene ii

Posted on July 3, 2014 by markweiss86

Posted by Mark Weiss, a resident of Downtown North 0 minutes ago i.e. July 2, 2014 although I should really repost this on the section about “steve turner dropped a bombshell” Mark Weiss is a registered user. I want to … Continue reading →

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