Category Archives: New yorks

They’ve got the beat, but backwards and in heels

Posted on December 13, 2018 by markweiss86

I go in and out of obsession with The Beats. One, I read “Kaddish” (AG) with Tom Sleigh, at Dartmouth, in the 1980s, but didn’t really feel it. Two, in San Francisco, in late 1980s, I lived across the street … Continue reading →

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Hey blue Kerouacs, why so jaded?

Posted on December 6, 2018 by markweiss86

There’s something in today’s Palo Alto Post about a comedian being pulled off the stage at Columbia University of New York for saying no one looks in the mirror, who is black, and says ‘I’d like to be gay too … Continue reading →

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‘Coach: how one footballer shaped 5 Billion Cellphones’ by Mark Bennett Weiss, with help from The Leon Levy Center

Posted on December 2, 2018 by markweiss86

In addition to advising Steve Jobs and other high tech CEOs, former Columbia University Center and Linebacker and Coach William Campbell ‘61 also funded The Old Pro in Palo Alto where thousands of beers also fueled thousands more ideas: Facebook … Continue reading →

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Lower East Side part II

Posted on December 2, 2018 by markweiss86
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Kraus – Ginsberg, 1978 Loisaida

Posted on November 30, 2018 by markweiss86

B/w Broken Flowers, 2006 Palo Alto early light  This is a coincidence but Nilaja Sun, appearing thru Dec 16 at Berkeley Rep, is from the Lower East Side. Kristine Guillaume, president or editor of Harvard Crimson This isn’t all beautiful … Continue reading →

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McNellis v Weiss, 2018: Ward v Rock Against Racism, 1989

Posted on November 29, 2018 by markweiss86

(I was standing in the entry of Hotel President apartments and John McNellis walked by, with a colleague, at I stopped him for a selfie, reprising our stunt from 2014 when we bumped at Peets ie a few doors up … Continue reading →

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Roswell Rudd w Roswell rug

Posted on November 23, 2018 by markweiss86

It says “Roswell rug” but it’s really a portrait of my dog Delphi at pace Gallery Palo Alto during a show last month featuring the minimalist art of Agnes Martin who lived in New Mexico but probably not in Roswell … Continue reading →

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Coldplay y yo

Posted on November 14, 2018 by markweiss86

  (I have a headline, a screen capture and 34 tags so if I don’t get back to this – circulocuting but not overlapping with the popular and large rock band Coldplay, just read my list — “drawn a line” … Continue reading →

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Does Lyric McHenry Rest In Peace?

Posted on November 2, 2018 by markweiss86

  see also EJ Johnson reality show see also Jason’s Lyric see also Forrest Whitaker see also KZSU special report White Punks On dope / white dopes on punk

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Jenny Scheinman vehicle to get Earthwise treatment next spring ‘Kannapolis’ by Finn Taylor, maybe

Posted on October 31, 2018 by markweiss86

I always regret mentioning, to media or friends and I guess now my own blog, upcoming or potential bookings. However, I saw Jenny Scheinman last week in Santa Cruz, as part of Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom at Kuumbwa, and … Continue reading →

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