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Stark Insider TV: Lady Antebellum, Dana Carvey entertain at concert for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital (Video)

BY LONI STARK — 09.21.2012

I wondered: could Dana Carvey do a Mitt Romney impression? Turns out, yes he can. Well sort of. Watch this special episode of Stark Insider…

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Film Critic Roger Ebert to receive award from Robert Redford at L.A. Benefit

BY MONICA TURNER — 09.20.2012

Ebert follows in the footsteps of philanthropist and Sundance Institute Trustee George Gund, who was the first to receive the award.

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Review: ‘Benjamin Britten Centennial’ at New Century

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 09.20.2012

The first movement, “Boisterous Bourée” took me straight back to my high school music comp class.

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San Francisco: To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation to hold 17th Annual Gala

BY MONICA TURNER — 09.18.2012

Models will wear fashions from UKO, Macy’s, Alice Becker, Banana Republic, Eileen Fisher, West Coast Leather, and Rogue.

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Review: ‘Beauty’ in all its forms by The DanceWright Project

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 09.17.2012

'Beauty' opens with the lead female sleeping on a couch. She is awakened by dancer Ismael Alvarez, who leers over her. They begin a pas…

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‘Doubt, A Parable’ – Certainty can stifle the truth

BY STARK INSIDER — 09.16.2012

This taut, engrossing masterpiece does not confine itself to the cerebral, with the more inspirational and human interludes taking place in the remaining two sections…

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Dustin Hoffman, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton to attend Mill Valley Film Festival (Preview)

BY CLINTON STARK — 09.13.2012

The 35th edition of MVFF opens October 4 with films Silver Linings Playbook and On the Road and runs for ten days.

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Stark Insider TV: The Pearl Fishers (aka Loni’s audition as a Virgin Priestess)

BY MONICA TURNER — 09.12.2012

It's like Bollywood meets Indiana Jones! That's the only way to describe Loni's latest adventures on the stage. This time the intrepid, would-be thespian heads…

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Grand Opera – ‘The Pearl Fishers’ an impressive season opener

BY STARK INSIDER — 09.10.2012

The young and exotically good-looking Ms. Lopez makes for a convincing Leila, and her siren voice is truly enchanting.

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Bollywood Meets Indiana Jones

BY MONICA TURNER — 09.10.2012

Bollywood meets Indiana Jones in this behind-the-scenes look at our very own Loni Stark in the audition of a lifetime. On location at OSJ's Pearl…