Monica Turner
Contributor to Stark Insider for tech, the arts and All Things West Coast for over 10 years.
Kronos Quartet and Wu Man bring ‘A Chinese Home’ to San Francisco
The program also includes Tan Dun's Ghost Opera. Since its west coast premiere at YBCA in 1995, the work has been performed around the world in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the Beijing Concert Hall.
California preacher: “He did come, he did come!” – still takes mulligan
Family Radio, of course, comes out ahead. Camping knows publicity, and repeatedly prophesying doom has earned his ministry (aka - a highly profitable business) a massive amount of exposure.
Bay Area native and Ringling star Alex Ramon tours Bay Area
At age 18, Alex Ramon received the coveted Lance Burton Award and was named National Stage Magic Champion by the World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas.
San Francisco Weekend: Uncorked! Wine Festival
Over fifty wineries, including some of Napa and Sonoma's finest, will be pouring at the event. Stark Insider recommendations: Etude, Michael Mondavi Family Estate, St. Clement, Flora Spring, and Stags' Leap Winery.
Stark Insider TV: This … is … Opera Idol!
“Opera is the greatest art form created by the human mind,” Lotfi Mansouri, a judge and former general director of the San Francisco Opera, tells Loni Kao Stark.
Palo Alto Players to end season with Noel Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit’
Coward wrote the play in 5 days in 1941 during a holiday that he took with actress Joyce Carey to the coast of Wales.
San Francisco Symphony’s centennial season launches September 7-13
The week of celebrations include an opening gala to be filmed by PBS, a centennial exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library and an all-star concert that pays tribute to the Bay Area’s non-profit and social service organizations.
1934 LaSalle Series 350 wins best of show, new McLaren unveiled in Marin
The eagerly awaited 2012 McLaren MP4-12C English sports car, touted by the industry as a competitor to the high-performance category ruled by Ferrari and Lamborghini, was unveiled at the show and drew a steady crowd of on-lookers.
San Francisco: Cutting Ball Theater announces 2011-12 season
Acclaimed SF theater celebrates 12th season with two World Premieres, new translations, Risk is This…The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival, and celebration of Strindberg.
Hawking: Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,"
