What’s Happening: Taste of Sonoma at the Green Music Center (Wine Events)
Labor Day weekend is almost here which means a lot of things. Your whites will (supposedly) be done for the season. Your work (hopefully) takes…
Monica Turner
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Latest Short Films: Vatican, David Lynch, 3 Days in Sonoma (Video)
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. Join the adventure on Stark Insider.
What’s Happening: San Francisco Green Film Fest
Indie film fans, we’ve got an interesting event to check out. And all in the name of a great cause. Green Film Fest returns September…
What’s Happening: The Ring at San Francisco Opera is bold, modern, and a must-see (VIDEO)
In case you missed it, Wagner’s Ring is in town. San Francisco Opera is staging the German composer’s epic work, The Ring of the Nibelung,…
Backstage Video: Touring LUZIA by Cirque du Soleil (Now in Boston)
A Waking Dream of Mexico. It’s called Luzia — in Spanish, “light” and “rain”. Cirque du Soleil’s spectacular show is now touring the country, and…
Francis Ford Coppola, Amber Tamblyn to headline David Lynch’s 2018 Festival of Disruption in Los Angeles
It’s happening again. David Lynch has revealed the lineup for the next Festival of Disruption. Read on for the details here on Stark Insider. And don’t…
Inside The Ring: Backstage at San Francisco Opera’s production of ‘Ring of the Nibelung’ (Video)
Power. Love. Destruction.
The David Lynch ‘Festival of Disruption’ Experience (Stark Insider Video)
A new Stark Insider video is here! Filmmaker David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man) hosts a bi-annual arts & music fest held…
Backstage: Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia, now in Washington, DC (Video)
Luzia means sound (luz) and rain (iluvia). It’s an apt name for Cirque du Soleil’s newest touring show… Luzia. Indeed you can expect incredible, thunderous…
Groundbreaking for new San Francisco Conservatory of Music building begins this summer
$185 million performing arts center will open 2020 and house 420 students and feature 2 concert halls.