Watch: Short film ‘3 Days in Sonoma’ an unexpected take on the wine country experience
5 years of footage. 9 cameras. And 1 overzealous cameraman who forgets to push record.
Culture
Explore San Francisco and Bay Area culture through theater reviews, film, contemporary art, and creative events. Featuring original artwork by Loni Stark, film reviews by Jeanne Powell, and insights by ATCA member Clinton Stark.
Stark Insider Presents: A special wine country ESCape (Video)
Because she wanted to get out of town.
A nineteenth-century housing crisis at Aurora Theatre
Widowers’ Houses is, by Shaw’s own categorization, a “play unpleasant.” No one on the stage is remotely likeable. Certainly not Blanche (Megan Trout), the spoiled…
Magic’s ‘Reel to Reel’ an engaging exploration of sound and memory (Review)
Chances are many of your favorite childhood memories are triggered by a certain smell or sound. In my case, like Mom’s homemade chocolate chip cookies,…
Fighting Windmills at Custom Made Theatre
In Review: Man of La Mancha at Custom Made Theatre Co., San Francisco. Don Quixote has no shortage of adaptations – cinematic, balletic, theatrical, and…
In Review: ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’
Stark Insider In Culture: reviewing Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. Much has been written about Gloria Grahame (1923 – 1981), the so-called “suicide blonde”…
Netflix’s ‘Abstract: The Art of Design’ is pure adrenaline for curious creatives
Boring as hell this is not.
San Francisco: EXIT Theatre’s annual Fog City Magic Fest returns
Fans of magic, get ready for some of San Francisco’s best. EXIT Theatre has announced its annual Fog City Magic Fest will run January 24-27,…
A Memorable Evening at SFJAZZ: Savion Glover and Marcus Gilmore (Review)
An acknowledged jazz tap maestro, Savion Glover first performed at SFJAZZ (then called Jazz in the City) in 1989 at age 15.
BottleRock 2018: The Killers, Bruno Mars, Muse to headline Napa Valley music fest
The Killers. Bruno Mars. Muse. Color us interested yet again; very, very interested … in this bit of electrifying West Coast music news. BottleRock today…