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

Silicon Valley started here, in a garage, 71 years ago

A garage anywhere else usually means car restoration projects, power tools or piles of old boxes and long-forgotten knick-nacks covered in dust and moth balls. But here in Silicon Valley, it often means start-ups. There are many garage stories. Most recently Google famously used garage space in Palo Alto to tinker...

Theater Review: Stamp of approval for ‘Mauritius’

Mauritius is showcase of talent, story and first-class entertainment.

Loreto Bay Breaking News: San Diego media pick-up story

With stories of Iran, Obama, and summer festivals flashing across mainstream media, there is little real attention placed on all that is happening in our beloved little town of Loreto and the Loreto Bay development. I'm not surprised. To us, it may mean everything, or at least a lot —...

Twitter and revolution, natural partners in Iranian up-rising

It's hard not to be amazed what is happening in Iran, on multiple counts. One is the up-rising of the youth that has quickly spread and now has the country on the brink of revolution. The spectre of another dictatorship, suppressing the people, ignoring the will of the voters and,...

Life is a highway: Mexico counters recession with $1.6B in infrastructure improvements

How much infrastructure improvement does $1.6B US buy? If you're Mexico, it means a whole bunch of new highways and, more importantly, possibly one way out of the economic and tourist funk that is now cloaking the country in hurt. According to Reuters, the $1.6B will be used this year. Deputy...

2006 Château Haut-Sorillon Bordeaux Supérieur, France (84 pts, $7.99)

As usual with some of these wines, I taste, and then if it's not exactly lighting the world on fire, I decant over night. Why not? Nothing to lose by really letting it open up.

BlackBerry Tour, aptly named, to be available on Sprint and Verizon

To say the SmartPhone market is white-hot would be an understatement. Profit margins may be a different matter, however, as the number of models increase, and prices decrease. For tech lovers, this is the golden age of mobility. RIM, with its new BlackBerry Tour, is the latest to make some...

Soon-to-be parents look for home in ‘Away We Go’, find laughs, hippies, destiny

It's hard to watch Maya Rudolph (Verona De Tessant) in a movie and not laugh. Her face reminds me of so many Saturday Night Live skits; usually unfunny ones, with her somehow managing to creatively eake out laughs. Ditto with John Krasinski (Burt Farlander). How can you not immediately think...

Breaking news: Inn at Loreto Bay to possibly re-open under FONATUR control

(UPDATE 6/18/09: safe to say this was a wild rumor, and the source was incorrect, at least about the Inn and Golf Course opening. Currently workers are striking, marching streets of Loreto Bay.) (UPDATE @ 2:34pm pacific: additional sources suggest this may not be happening as reported by The Tribuna...

Twitter growth slows, Facebook juggernaut steams ahead

In 2008, Twitter grew 780%. This year doesn't look as promising. A report today from compete.com, one of the new Web measurement services ...