Clinton Stark
Clinton shoots videos for Stark Insider. San Francisco Bay Area arts, Ingmar Bergman and French New Wave, and chasing the perfect home espresso shot 25 seconds at a time (and failing). Peloton: ClintTheMint. Camera: Video Gear
Sunday espresso: Loreto with Love, Motorola Droid, dead Audi?
Winter must be nearing. The leaves (on some trees) are turning orange, red. And the foothills are green, instead of brown and yellow. Also there's that night chill in the air, that I love. Loni not so much. Then again I know cold is all relative.
My hardened Canadian roots...
Vintners Hall of Fame 2010 class announced today by CIA in Napa
The Culinary Institute of America (the other CIA) based in St. Helena, California today announced the Vintners Hall of Fame 2010 class. The five new members to be inducted are Randall Grahm, Andy Beckstoffer, Al Brounstein, Zelma Long and Leon Adams.
When we toured the hall earlier this year (see...
Christmas theater season is here: ‘Another Night Before Christmas’ at City Lights
City Lights' Another Night Before Christmas opens tonight with a gala at the downtown San Jose theater. Thankfully this doesn't appear to be a straight ahead, red cheeks, ho-ho-ho take on holiday theater (bah humbug).
Despite their small size and budget, City Lights takes risks and often chooses interesting, non-conventional...
Google adds automatic captioning to YouTube
The whiz-bang kids in Mountain View are at it again. With a wave of their billion dollar wand they are now making the world a better place for the hearing impaired.
While YouTube allows for manual captioning, thanks to Google's voice recognition technology a new feature just released enables videos...
LAX and Motorola Droid: Google Places Directory, Aloqa apps
Two things were clear to me after our Baja adventure came to an end tonight as we landed in LAX: the Loreto Bay development in the Baja is going to be just fine; and the Motorola Droid is a definite keeper. Despite the lack of Verizon coverage in Mexico,...
Palm corporate survival: Don’t swim upstream (aka partner with Google)
I've been following the avalanche of all things Android for the past few weeks. While I'm still on the fence myself, I do know two things: Motorola Droid is not an iPhone killer (what's needed is an iTunes killer, folks) and that Palm is going down in flames... again....
Motorola Droid goes Baja
How does the new Motorola Droid phone fare in the rugged terrain of the hot, humid Baja desert?
Well, aside from the absence of any Verizon service, remarkably well. And much to other's concern, sans protector or case.
The wi-fi feature is great and has allowed me to use the Droid...
A quick look at our Loreto Bay home
Here's a quick look at our home in Agua Viva in Loreto Bay.
https://vimeo.com/7615730
Some noteworthy items so far:
The new terminal is open; modern, airy and spacious. I do miss the palapa style roof of the old one.
Villa group timeshare sales people are still full-on; when you leave immigration and head...
Action-packed weekend for Bay Area Theater and Opera
The good times keep on rolling. Theater in the Bay Area is—and, yes, I know you may grow tired of me repeating myself—a terrific experience, to say the least.
There's something about the live energy. The anticipation. And knowing what you're about to see will be absolutely unique for that...
Stark Insider Presents: San Jose Opera behind the scenes, cast interviews
La Cenerentola, based on Cinderella, opens this weekend at San Jose Opera. Loni takes you behind the scenes.
https://vimeo.com/7544261
Opera San Jose
La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
(Nov. 14, 15, 19, 21
22, 24, 27, 29, 2009)
What happens when you take the "bippity-boppity-boo" out of Cinderella? You get something even more magical - Rossini's enchanting La...
