George Packer, Gunn alum, or person who attended Gunn High in Palo Alto, The Atlantic, April 23, 2023, pp 9-12: the moral case against euphemism: banning words won’t make the world more just
graph seven: warn off; compare ward off — must consult my trusty Websters’ 11.
I’m a photo of Fields Prize winner Paul J. Cohen and I do not disprove this message
At Tuesday’s school board meeting, Don Austin addressed the forum to respond to the numerous comments from students and parents about the cancellation of multivariable calculus for next year. According to Don, the class was not canceled simply because it is a math class but because the district could not find a credentialed teacher to teach it. He went as far as stating that the teacher who used to teach the class had passed away, without giving any details on when the last time (s)he had taught it (maybe not in recent years).
This is not some random class. It is a fundamental STEM class that 43 percent of Paly and Gunn students….
edit to add: Steve, and or Eric Cohen wrote in to say that The Fields Medal is not a prize but also sent a link that said “The Fields Medal is a prize” and or that Ramsey according to the Erdos book is the guy best known for “the Party Problem” and or that yesterday April 2, 2023 was Paul’s 89th birthdate anniversary and or I added or subtracted by noting that April 3 fifty four years ago Stanford students formed the A3M but also that DB Dan Bern first wrote and then sang :
This is the year-by-year home run totals of the great Barry Bonds
This is the year-by-year home run totals of the great Barry Bonds
In 1986, he hit 16 home runs
Then 25, 24, 19, 33
25, 34, 46, 37, 33, 42, 40
37, 34 and 49
73, 46, 45, 45,
5, 26, 28
This is the year-by-year home run totals of the great Barry Bonds
This is the year-by-year home run totals of the great Barry Bonds
He won the MVP in 1990, 1992 and ’93
And ’01 and ’02 and ’03 and ’04
This is the year-by-year home run totals of the great Barry Bonds
This is the year-by-year home run totals of the great Barry Bonds
In 1986, he hit 16 home runs
Then 25, 24, 19, 33
25, 34, 46, 37, 33, 42, 40
37, 34 and 49
73, 46, 45, 45,
5, 26, 28….
Jenny Scheinman, violin, Todd Sickafoose, bass, Scott Amendola, drums and effects, performing as Damn Skippy, Mitchell Park Community, March 4, 2023: soundcheck
Jazz and folk at seven public facilities in Palo Alto
Earthwise spring summer series 2023*
Phoebe Hunt, Lytton Plaza, Monday, February 20, 2023 (pop up– President’s Day)
The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums
Palo Alto Art Center, Wed. March 1, 2023 8 pm, free;
Damn Skippy
Mitchell Park Community Center, Saturday March 4, 2023 8 pm, $20 at door;
Stephan Crump
Lytton Plaza, Saturday, March 11, 2023 5 pm, free (rain cancels 🌧️);
Crump
Edu Ribeiro Trio featuring Edu Ribeiro drums, Vinicius Gomes guitar, Noah Garabedian, bass
Lytton Plaza, Thursday, April 20, 2023 5 pm free;
Nellie McKay, Karla Kane, Mitchell Park Community Center, Sunday, April 23, 2023 7 pm, $20;
Allison Miller Carmen Staaf Duo Mitchell Park Community Center, Monday, April 24, 2023 8 pm, $20;
Raffi Garabedian Octet featuring Danielle Wertz, Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola, Marcus Stephens, Danny Lubin-Laden, Owen Clapp, Mark Clifford.
Palo Alto Art Center, Thursday, May 11, 2023, 8 pm, free;
Laurie Lewis and Men of Note, Alyssa Burgart
Mitchell Park Community Center, Sunday, May 14, 2023, 7 pm, $20;
Amendola Vs Blades, JoVia Armstrong Destiny Muhammad Duo, Mitchell Park Community Center, Sunday, May 21, 7:30 pm, $20;
Sonny and the Rhinestone Sunsets, The Suitcase Junket, Mitchell Park Community Center, Friday, May 26, 2023, 8 p.m. $20
Freddy Jones Band, Lytton Plaza, Friday, June 9, 7 p.m. Free.
Cien Mil Mangos (Stanford, CA), Larry Ochs Gerald Cleaver, Lytton Plaza, Saturday, June 10, 12 12 noon sharp to 2:30 pm, free
Jim Campilongo Ben Davis Duo Lytton Plaza, Sunday, June 11, 2023, 2 pm, free; world premiere; (repeats July 16);
Freddy Clarke Wobbly World, Thursday, June 15, 2023, 6 pm California Avenue “Third Thursday”. (Part of 3rd Thursday produced by Carol Garston et al — Earthwise is producing one of the six stages, at June and July versions)
Will Bernard Charles Rumback James Singleton, Mads Tolling Mitchell Park Community Center Wednesday, June 21, 2023 8 pm; world premiere; $20; repeats 6/22/23, 6/23/23 $45 for three-show pass.
Will Bernard Charles Rumback James Singleton, Ben Goldberg Sheldon Brown Mitchell Park Community Center Thursday, June 22, 2023 8 pm; $20;
Will Bernard Charles Rumback James Singleton, Shelley Doty X-tet Mitchell Park Community Center Friday, June 23, 2023 8 pm; residency $20 per show, $45 for three shows;
“The Western Edition”, Lucie Stern Community Center, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 7 pm, $20.
Adam Levy & Mint Imperials Lytton Plaza, Monday July 10, 2o23 7 pm Free
Jim Campilongo Ben Davis Duo Lytton Plaza, Sunday, July 16, 7 pm, free
Lydia Lunch, Eugene Robinson, Saturday, July 15, 2023, Mitchell Park Community Center, 8 pm. $25.
Leon Timbo, Josh Thurston Milgrom Quartet, Thursday, July 20, 2023, California Avenue “Third Thursdays”.
Matt the Electrician, Sony Holland, Friday, July 21, Johnson Park Tickets on sale May 11.
Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express, Emma Catherine Sunday, July 30, 2023 Mitchell Park Bowl, 2 pm.
San Francisco Mime Troupe “Breakdown” Sunday, August 6, 2023, 2 p.m. Mitchell Park Bowl, free
Lisa Mezzacappa’s DuoB, Vinicius Gomes Fabiana Cozza, Mitchell Park Community Center, Friday August 18, 2023, 8 p.m..
Shamarr Allen, The SticklerPhonics, Sunday, August 2o, 2023 2 pm, Mitchell Park Bowl, 2 pm. free
Amendola Vs Blades featuring Skerik and Cyro Baptista, Eric Person Quartet featuring Marcus Shelby, Adam Klipple, Sunday, September 17, 2 pm, Mitchell Park Bowl, Free. Note: this show features eight musicians and two sets; the AvB show on May 21 features four musicians and two sets.
David James Band Mission Rebel No. 1 Searching For the Reverend Jessie James, Sunday, September 24 2 pm early show, right before Yom Kippur, which starts at Sundown.
Earthwise at Palo Alto JCC, September 28, 2023. Hold the date: Earthwise at the JCC, which means “Jewish Community Center” but you do not have to be Jewish to attend. I have seen events there featuring Amy Tan, West Coast Live Sedge Thompson, Black Violin. (I produced a show there in December 2019 with Charlie Musselwhite, Valerie Trout and MC Lars). Rumor has it that it will be: Seraph Brass band. Details TBA.
Dan Bern, Sunday October 8, 2023, Mitchell Park Community Center 7 pm,. Note: at this show, in addition from culling from his collection of 1,000 songs, Dan will debut a song commissioned by Earthwise Productions and Lions With Wings — the online–only record label affiliated with Earthwise — about Wallace Stegner and his short story about tennis and class “As Cool As Them” on piano.
Young Dubliners, Saturday, November 11, 2023, Mitchell Park Community Center, 8 pm. $25.
edit to add:
Stefan Crump, Lytton Plaza, Saturday March 11
Carmen Staaf, Allison Miller, at The Mitch
edit to add: the headline of this post is slightly misleading in that although I started Earthwise in Palo Alto in 1994, there were years when I focused on artist management and not concerts so there were few or no shows in Palo Alto (but I worked on shows in New Orleans or New York, for example). There was only one show in 2018 (Allison Miller Trio at The Mitch) – -the year my mother died — and no shows the year before. I did 43 shows last year — my most ever. Yet I also said that, like the rain Saturday, Earthwise is doing shows intermittently: let’s say its once or twice a month, on average. The upcoming three-night residency for Will Bernard, James Singleton and Charles Rumback— from New Orleans and Chicago — a notable exception. I’m predicting 36 shows for Earthwise in 2023.
*it says “spring summer” but now includes, via editing and adding, October and November. I am not sure if I will take the winter off, as I did in early 2023, and make it seasonal, and establish an off season or a quite zone, or just keep adding dates indoors. I would think October 15 or so is the last outdoor show.
Stanford athlete Norman Dole broke the world record for athletics pole vault in 1905. He was related to the Hawaii fruit dynasty, and one of numerous people from that family to attend Stanford. (Source: Malcolm Harris , 2023, p. 94. See:
Here is a photo of the basketball court at Henry W. Seale Park (formerly known as Stockton Park) in Palo Alto. The PAHA calls it a “multipurpose bowl with basketball hoop.” It is quite near to 3134 Greer, where Kent lived from 7th grade on, and where he and Jerry Chang, and Mark House, famously (at least, according to Kristin Huckshorn of the San Jose Mercury News) would in the driveway bounce the basketball for hours on end, and where, not entirely incidentally, Lockhart helped his mother Marlinda Fitzgerald design and install a very unique surviving garden, itself fit for either PAPAC attention or Steve Staiger’s files as an arts landmark. Kent later said that carrying and placing the 50-pound boulders, which supposedly came from San Simeon with the direct permission of William Randolph Hearst, was equivalent to putting in that many hours in the weight room. When they weren’t in the drive way, they were often around the corner at the single hoop at Seale Park; Kent and I re-lived those days in a shootaround in 1988, the year he was MVP of the SF Pro Am league that also featured NBA’s Scooter Barry and Lester Conner.
Seale Park, formerly Stockton Park until 1982 and named currently for a large land-holder who was part of the founding of Palo Alto and died in 1888, is getting some sprucing up; a sign says that the new restrooms were to be finished in March, 2011. I left a voice mail last week with Holly Boyd of the City hoping to find out, at the very least, whether there would be a re-dedication ceremony (apparently there was one in 2000). Although these matters are better first vetted via Roger Smith, Greg Betts or Annette Glanckoph, I did mention in my voice mail for the City engineer something about wanting to dedicate the new bathrooms “for a famous Palo Altan.”
Lockhart led Gunn to two SCVAL basketball titles in 1980 and 1981 and was also the Central Coast Section player of the year (and an honorable mention Street and Smith’s All-America).
At University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) he set a school record for most wins and most games in a four year career, for a team that was ranked as high as national top ten and was featured in Sports Illustrated (he played with Dave Feitl, Luster Goodwin and Jeep Jackson, and against John Stockton and Karl Malone). In the 1985 NBA draft he was selected by the New York Knicks, as the 119th player chosen overall, but broke his arm and missed the cut. After time in the CBA (playing for Cazzie Russell and Phil Jackson), he signed to play pro ball in Australia, where he was first team All Australia (a continent of 3 million square miles and at the time about 15 million people, as in he was among the top five players among that many people), and continued coaching and playing for about 20 more seasons at various levels. (He coached Andrew Bogut, for instance). He teaches art at a secondary school near Melbourne and makes sculpture. His mother sold 3134 Greer in 2007 and now lives Down Under with Kent. Continue reading
Spring, 2017 nearly six years ago: has Palo Alto degraded as dramatically?
The more than 260,000 new residents who have moved to the area since 2018 might not understand that they’ll be frolicking in a symbol of Austin’s transition from livable city to tech-bro theme park. Nor would the hundreds of thousands expected to join them in the coming ten years, filling jobs at Tesla, Oracle, and countless other companies lured here by generous tax incentives. There was nothing we could do. Austin was now a surf-park town. Texas monthly
…The bang you get for your buck is terrible traffic, doubled property taxes, annual rent hikes, chain restaurants from Denver and Portland, Oregon, sidewalks littered with electric scooters lying flat on their sides, and a “culture” owned primarily by Live Nation.
Austin was never as laid-back or “weird” as it claimed it be, but it was appropriately grungy, and relaxing, and you could flourish here even if you didn’t have a ton of money. Not anymore. The cost of living in and around Austin shot up by 17.8 percent between 2010 and 2020, and home prices have almost doubled. Average rents are now higher than in Paris and Naples (and, yes, we mean the ones in France and Italy)
and:
I started my day with a observation that the month that David Crosby died at age 81 the cover of the Rolling Stone issue #1371 was Rizal Leah, who writes her own rules.
andand (but not Anand Wilder, x-Yeasayer, not yet at least…): after a three month hiatus, Earthwise will announce a 10 show spring series, mostly jazz, but eclectic. March 1, Tiptons Saxophone Quartet Plus Drums; March 4, Damn Skippy f Amendola, Bernard, Scheinman Schott & Sickafoose; March 11, Stephan Crump; it still feels quixotic; would the planet be worse but for Earthwise? Part agit prop and Situationist, “MOLOCH! MOLOCH! MOLOCH!” and all that but I think I know how Zidane felt right before he head-butted his way to a red card and out of the World Cup…
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