Monica Turner

Contributor to Stark Insider for tech, the arts and All Things West Coast for over 10 years.

Fall Ball 2009…It’s Time to Celebrate!

  The Fall Ball is here! Don't miss this evening of wonderful food, drink, dancing and friends. If you don't want to dress up...no need. If you want to dress up in something other than Egyptian...that's perfect. We just want you to come and celebrate live theatre on the coast with...

Audience Gets Special Treats at Halloween Performance Of Spring Awakening

PLUS, ON-STAGE SEATING AND FIRST FOUR ROWS ONLY $25 SAN JOSE (October 16, 2009) –  Those attending the evening Halloween performance of SPRING AWAKENING in San Jose can expect a special treat in their goodie bags.  Broadway San Jose will be doling out Spring Awakening removable tattoos and iTunes gift...

These Halloween costumes will have you stage ready

Might this be the year to take your Halloween costume up a notch or two? Say, a spear shaker. Or perhaps channel your inner socialite in a period piece get-up that requires its own parking space. Or maybe just go theater basic and don a mysterious-Eyes-Wide-Shut mask. I see that StarkSilverCreek...

Run-DMC hopes to follow in musical footsteps of U2 and Green Day

Walk this way to the next musicians storming the Broadway stage! This time, it's famous 80's hip-hop group Run-DMC. No stranger to cross-overs, their ground-breaking hit "Walk This Way" recorded with Aerosmith, fused hip-hop with hard rock and catapulted the group to stardom. Sneaker companies everywhere celebrated. Today it was reported the...

Pinot on the River: October 25, 2009

Pinot On The River is a full-immersion weekend of Pinot Noir, featuring a full program of in-depth tastings and seminars, vineyard tours and sumptuous food. Sit with the winemakers and other Pinot-loving consumers as we focus on highly-allocated, limited production West Coast Pinot Noirs. From Friday's kickoff dinner to...

African-American Shakespeare Company Announces New Artistic Director

  San Francisco’s African-American Shakespeare Company announced today the appointment of L. Peter Callender as Artistic Director. Callender has worked professionally as an actor, writer, and director for over 30 years. He received his formal training in theater at the Juilliard School in New York City, and has appeared on...

The Artist Diaries #3: Barns and Wigs

Find out what barns and wigs have to do with painting, as Loni continues to chase her dream... https://vimeo.com/7107370

Gone in 60 Seconds: Machines and Spas

Watch Loni drive a monster wine country transformer! That and a preview of special upcoming Wine Tube TV episodes. https://vimeo.com/7103903 Coming soon: inside the luxurious resort at Kenwood Inn & Spa in Sonoma. A tour of the Hop Kiln winery in Healdsburg. A preview of the stunning views from Artesa Winery....

Afterlife Opens at the ICA in November

Afterlife Resurrects Contemporary Castaways Group Exhibition at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Presents Discarded Materials Transformed Into Works of Art.   October 2009, SAN JOSE, CA  - On the heels of its recent show, NextNew:Green that featured the works of emerging Bay Area artists exploring issues related to...

Gavin Newsom’s first YouTube ad: I’ve seen and heard it all before…

Gavin Newsom is taking it to the web, social media style... "for a better California" of course. Thanks to the low, low cost—that would be free—of sites like YouTube his campaign team is doing what it can to battle the larger pot his opponent Jerry Brown wields. The first ad...