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Yesterday, last year or medieval?

Aram James a retired public defender and also an activist in our community – – a former Gunn football player from the 1960s, who, also as much as anyone else avidly followed my three attempts at running for city council, … Continue reading

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Big ups to Aldo Billingslea ‘Polar Bear…’ zoom Juneteenth theatre workie

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I thought Anthony McGill #taketwoknees blue note version of ‘America the Beautiful’ sounds like ‘Kol Nidre’ (as did Harumi Rhodes)

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Ben Wade, 1952 VS Beck Way, 2022

Ben Wade I am noticing today because I am watching a rerun of the 1952 World Series especially the seventh game were Yankees made a big comeback; Wade who ended up as dodgers longtime director of scouting in the ‘70s … Continue reading

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Taking Szabo Fountain by Strategy

Kudos Jonathan and Jack. Photo courtesy of Boxing Rose (the moms)   bw Caroleen Beatty sings the Eno Classic “Mother Eyeless Whale”:  

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Super Wash VS Ferris Bueller

I did not know until reading the New York Times obituary of Claudell Washington, 65, That the Berkeley man’s swing produced the foul ball caught by Ferris Bueller on his famous day off in 1985. I think I taped part … Continue reading

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Mac’s gains a week and momentum in push back against clumsy nanny ordinance

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Revised version of Adrian fine Adrian Figg riff for readers of the Palo Alto Weekly

(Eleven hours later, kind of reminds me of the joke when I was a kid about Gilligan and Ginger and Gilligan asks if he can stick his finger in her belly button and she says “If Black Lives Matter”..)I saw … Continue reading

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Clarinet Thing full concert Palo Alto 66 minutes

Beth Custer artist Mark Weiss promoter selfie February 25, 2020:

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DiSuvero and Noguchi in The Times today by Kimmelman and Weisz

I met my wife when we were both interested enough in Palo Alto’s Percent for Art program that we both toured Bruce Beasley’s Oakland studio apropos of his sculpture at Mitchell Park Library and Community Center. So therefore I notice … Continue reading

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