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Go Daddy Dorado!!

Posted on July 3, 2014 by markweiss86

Grocery Outlet, Berkeley-based chain, actually controlled by a hedge fund, going public, I read, for $1 Billion dollars, we gave them an oversized sign on Alma. Go Daddy, a website, one of whose bigger investors is a six-billion dollar hedge … Continue reading →

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Proposed monument at 261 Hamilton in Palo Alto in the shape of a giant Good Humor bar with alphabet spelling BUILDING ENVELOPE?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by markweiss86

Being a concert promoter turned land-use watch-dog, with forays into arts advocate and blogger has the weird effect of sometimes imagining a parallel world in which all my ideas come true. I am posting this while listening to a public … Continue reading →

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Puzzling evidence in Palo Alto

Posted on June 11, 2014 by markweiss86

  (under construction: time to eat the donuts….)   edit to add: Holy canoli! Did he say “Silicon Valley” at 1:40???

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Last call at Happy Donuts

Posted on June 6, 2014 by markweiss86

I am writing this post remote from Happy Donuts, its last day, last 9 hours. 1. This is admittedly a weird place to start even a lyrical essay about the rise and fall of Palo Alto’s Happy Donuts, but I … Continue reading →

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Manos arriba for the Alvins

Posted on June 5, 2014 by markweiss86

News out of Memphis and Hayward is that blues slinger Alvin Youngblood Hart is changing his stage name to Alvin Workmaster Jr. He thinks its a better draw. edit to add: but does it come in Illinois Blues?

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Big buzz for World Cup Buzz, THE new app

Posted on May 30, 2014 by markweiss86

1. There’s a big buzz in certain parts of South Barron Park, a part of Palo Alto, a part of South Palo Alto that I have, in previous posts likened to the Vieux Carre (a poetic and sometimes metaphorically useful … Continue reading →

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Non-profit rock venue in Berkeley, more office space in Palo Alto

Posted on May 28, 2014 by markweiss86

Apropos of the news that former BGP partner David Mayeri is opening a non-profit music venue in Berkeley, re-purposing the former UC Theatre (flagship of Gary Meyer’s Landmark chain), I am re-posting this letter I wrote to City Council about … Continue reading →

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Ernesto’s TopLine Giants gear on 3rd Street Frisco

Posted on May 14, 2014 by markweiss86

If you find yourself under-dressed on your way to a Giants game, stop in to see Ernesto “Neto” Solis at his new Top Line Apparel gallery and salon / hang at 5009 3rd Street. as i did go giants edit … Continue reading →

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Santa Clara red or black?

Posted on May 10, 2014 by markweiss86

In New Mexico, it is customary to ask “red or green?” but it could be just as customary to ask “black or red?” the latter referring to Santa Clara Pueblo pottery rather than to chile. For tomorrow’s new acquisitions, we … Continue reading →

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I am not working on my blog because there are this many things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be

Posted on April 23, 2014 by markweiss86

I am not working on my blog because there are this many — 12 — things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be. At Printer’s Inc, Cafe, Palo Alto, with about 90 minutes to be “productive”. … Continue reading →

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