Tag Archives: the new york times

Erno Rubik four states

Posted on September 16, 2020 by markweiss86

I met a Stanford student who set the world record for solving the cube while juggling.

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Rounders

Posted on September 4, 2020 by markweiss86

Molly Alyssa This post is about an author I read about in the Times, Alyssa Cole and it made me think of Molly Tuttle, Palo Alto’s rising star musician in Nashville, although obviously the connection I am making is pretty … Continue reading →

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Godspeed you black empress

Posted on July 5, 2020 by markweiss86
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b 2 B VS Liverpool champs oh sit down

Posted on June 28, 2020 by markweiss86

i start my morning by walking the dog then sitting to read The New York Times. I had two tear sheets from yesterday’s news. Actually I carried a bit of it in my bath robe because I could not find … Continue reading →

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Smoke signals, I and II

Posted on May 25, 2020 by markweiss86

Twice in the last 24 hours I have posted at PAW about the government decree to ban vaping and cherry-tobacco from Palo Alto and its likely negative impact on Mac’s Smoke Shop, which I frequent for newspapers and magazines.I think … Continue reading →

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‘Respect my hair, white people’ Jon Pareles of the Times touts Xenia Franca of Bahia at GlobalFest

Posted on January 15, 2020 by markweiss86

BLUF: I’ve produced a handful of world music concerts in Palo Alto — Femi Kuti, Ozomatli, Kemuri, Danilo Perez — and would like to do more. Also: I think there should be more street music and buskers, beyond the Claude … Continue reading →

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Bitch, I’m Honeychild

Posted on January 14, 2020 by markweiss86

The article by Lauren Messman in Sunday’s Times about Carolyn Coleman, an artist who uses subway subsidy cards and completed a vocational training program, is also the artist known as Honeychild or Carolyn “HoneyChild” Coleman who, among other recent events, … Continue reading →

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Times Times on our side for January jazz show with Marta Sanchez

Posted on December 7, 2019 by markweiss86

Gionvanni Russonello of The New York Times tapped Marta Sanchez (appearing in Earthwise Productions Welcomes show at Mitchell Park January 25) as one of his ten jazz highlights for 2019. Previously, he had included last month a track from her … Continue reading →

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We are taking our dog to Sausalito Fair in, like, 10 minutes but not before I quickly post about the Stanford tennis player and her father

Posted on September 1, 2019 by markweiss86

Based on Yesterday’s Research and Revelation: Or, Kirstie Ahn Should Take a Gap Year It’s no good when the evening of your greatest victory ever the news is about how your father thinks you should quit and become a corporate … Continue reading →

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Tom Harrell files

Posted on June 23, 2019 by markweiss86

Ben Ratliff: The trumpeter Tom Harrell has been doing this a long time, through various schools and vogues: He can play slow and fast and in between, sometimes all within a single line. But his improvising is always temperate and … Continue reading →

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