Tag Archives: matt gonzalez

‘Lami@60’ will be especially poignant in the COVID or post- COVID era

Posted on October 12, 2020 by markweiss86

I watched the video tape that John Rhodes had made of the event Matt Gonzalez and I produced in 2011 at David highSmith’s store regarding the 50th anniversary of the publication or the creation of Alden Van Buskirk’s collection called … Continue reading →

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Matt Gonzalez says: about Washington High Arnautoff murals

Posted on July 28, 2019 by markweiss86

We have a Arnautoff mural here in Palo Alto at the old medical building that is becoming a history museum. The controversy here was that it showed a woman’s bosom as she is being checked by the male doc. New … Continue reading →

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GARCIA ZARATE TRIAL

Posted on January 6, 2019 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Art & Politics:
first published in Medium, July 2, 2108 Photograph of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate on San Francisco’s Pier 14 taken by Jay Martin on May 23, 2015. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Did Not Receive a Fair…

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Dramatis personae featuring minor characters

Posted on December 13, 2018 by markweiss86

This started out as a private correspondence about sundry arts topics but I thought I’d reduce it to alphabetical list, short i.d., and a link, for general use: Alden Van Buskirk, minor Dartmouth Beat Poet (d. 1961); Aleta Hayes, teacher, … Continue reading →

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I saw a werewolf drinking a latte at the DeYoung museum, salivating over his next big plunder

Posted on December 10, 2018 by markweiss86

The De Young Museum has a great little show about Gauguin that includes Oceania, Europeania, paintings, prints, ceramics and wood carvings. People who’ve been around long enough might notice that the museum’s Maori figure from 1890 is likely the source … Continue reading →

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‘Red Poet’ doc about SF’s Jack Hirschman, who briefly taught at Dartmouth in 1961-1962

Posted on February 29, 2016 by markweiss86
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Elizabeth Holmes portrait by Jenny Hueston in 12/15/14 The New Yorker

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

I conducted a mock interview by voice mail with New York based photographer Jenny Hueston. I wanted to know if, like David Choe and Facebook, she was given a choice of either her day rate in cash or Theranos stock. … Continue reading →

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Pubic defender

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Broke Ass Stuart has a website, and Alex Mak of the BAS confederacy profiled Matt Gonzalez, the public defender, former SF Supe and artist. I thought it neat, and commented to such, that next to the article there was an … Continue reading →

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Weiss declared winner on cost-basis

Posted on February 3, 2015 by markweiss86

Weiss declared winner on cost-basis tally Mark Weiss, spending $1,000 out of pocket yet garnering 2,171 votes was the winner in the Fall Palo Alto election, as tabulated on a cost-basis. He spent a mere 46 cents per vote. Karen … Continue reading →

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Slow pitch softball plus a pinch of Carl Hubbell the usual

Posted on October 22, 2014 by markweiss86

Mr. Weiss, My name is Erin Ashby and I am a Stanford student currently enrolled in COMM 104: Reporting, Writing, and Understanding the News. We are currently making candidate profiles for the upcoming Palo Alto City Council election and I have … Continue reading →

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