The Reading Rainbowin' Samoan

• Mark Weiss
• Apr 18, 2012

Reading Rainbow in the Parks is a book fair for children, in East Palo Alto, May 12, organzied by a former Stanford rower named Marlayna Tuiasosopo, a Samoan surname that is familiar to football fans.

Ann Packer to Rock Downtown Library

• Mark Weiss
• Mar 28, 2012

Author Ann Packer, a Gunn and Yale grad, to rock the downtown library April 18.

Fables of the reconstruction

• Mark Weiss
• Mar 26, 2012

REM the rock band said "You Can't Get There From Here" but forgot to tell the very long truck rushing to get scaffolding to a construction site on Uni Ave before the building boom bubble gets pricked.

Spring training; or, three dots you're out

• Mark Weiss
• Mar 24, 2012

an ode to three dot journalism of herb caen in that there are twelve topics. about spring training, morality, mortality and fame, palo alto style. Plus the obligatory plug for a pre-IPO website.

AXYHEXO is frmsht

• Mark Weiss
• Mar 15, 2012

A chance meeting with a linguistics and computer expert have me thinking of my bubbe and her bubbe, da.

Sports

William Gould to Throw First Pitch at Stanford-Vandy Friday

• Mark Weiss
• Feb 16, 2012

law professor William Gould of Stanford will throw out first pitch Friday Stanford baseball versus Vanderbilt.

Arts & Entertainment

If We're Keeping Score: Trees, 6 Arts, 1

• Mark Weiss
• Jan 20, 2012

The artists outnumbered city officials by a significant margin, a mixed blessing for the Palo Alto Public Arts Commission's annual celebration Thursday

Bubba Bamboo

• Mark Weiss
• Oct 3, 2011

A walk through the bamboo grove at Foothill College takes me back to school-yard games and the meanings of "bubba."

Music

Stanford 57, San Jose State 3, Archers of Loaf 0

• Mark Weiss
• Sep 6, 2011

We watched two hours of football on Saturday, September 3, 2011, but my mind was in 1978 and 1995.