Theater Review: Glee does Berkeley at ‘Speech & Debate’
The high school outcasts in Aurora Theatre’s Speech & Debate may not know how to comfortably fit into mainstream society, but they sure do know…
Clinton Stark
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Sunday Espresso: Father’s Day Playboy, World Cup, Joan Crawford tomatoes
Stages across the Bay Area are full-on gay these days. And that, of course, is not a bad thing. The timing is peculiar, however. How…
2005 Merriam Vineyards Russian River Valley Merlot
Located on the edge of the Russian River Valley, you’d expect some nice reds from Merriam Vineyards. And this ′05 “Windacre” Merlot definitely fits the…
Cutting Ball Theater with artistic director Rob Melrose (Video)
It’s been quite a year for the innovative Cutting Ball Theater. Nestled in the colorful Tenderloin district, the 70-seat theater is celebrating its 10th season…
Facebook likes revenue, $800 million of it in ’09
Facebook earned approximately $800 million in’09 according to reports this morning. The six-year old service, with nearly half a billion users across the world, exploded…
Tablet sales to eclipse Netbooks by 2012, but why?
It's a perfect storm of cultural transformation: social networking, micro-communication, and a societal premium placed on content consumption.
Dinner Theater: Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco
A wild-and-zanny-Steve-Martin kind of guy with heavy makeup and colorful costume, he enters on a chariot: "I am Caesar!"
Scoring Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft E3 announcements
It’s often surprising how much innovation and R&D funding goes into the video game industry. Each year, the three players—Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft—up the ante in…
Canon EOS DSLR Cameras: 5 tips for shooting video
"I shot a whole music vid on the beast… it’s better than the $100,000 HD Varicam I shot on in 05." -- Cullen Hoback, film…
Starbucks offers free wi-fi, seats even harder to find
To deprive us of our Google-ing, Facebook-ing, and Twitter-ing is cause, it seems, for civil unrest.