Richard Nash’s ‘The Rainmaker’ kicks off new season at SJ Stage (Full schedule)
Bold? Diverse? Innovative? Here's what to expect at San Jose Stage Company's 2014-15 season. Full schedule.
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.
‘Wicked’ defies gravity in San Jose (Review)
'Wicked' leaves you leaving the theater with a spring in your step and a slightly bigger heart, which is a taller order than all the…
Stark Insider TV: Larkin Poe – Live in the Vineyard at Clos du Val Napa (Video)
Atlanta rockers sit down with Loni Stark to talk indie music and signing with RH Music. Plus: LITV concert footage.
Water by the Spoonful (Review)
Zilah Mendoza’s nuanced performance of Odessa stands alone; so many threads of so many people run through this character and Mendoza does justice to them…
San Francisco: ‘Buyer & Cellar’ a delicious romp (Review)
These old timey shoppes are taken straight out of Streisand’s 2010 book "My Passion for Design", which one imagines the diva dictating and photographing while…
Michael Urie on Buyer & Cellar, Barbra Streisand, G.I. Joes (Video)
When celebrities have oodles of cash, they can bring their (craziest) fantasies and hobbies to life. Case in point: Barbra Streisand. In this interview actor…
Cops and Robbers: Violence and moral culpability in Oakland (Review)
Seventeen different voices, each with a different perspective, sketch out unexpected boundaries of moral culpability in Oakland.
Concours d’Elegance: 1954 Ferrari 375 named best of show (complete list of winners)
On location Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance: The last postwar car to be named Best of Show was a 1964 Maserati Mistral Coupé, which topped contenders…
War of the Worlds revisited
Only afterwards does it dawn on you that your mind was transported from one place to another along such a smooth continuum that you arrived…
Indie Film: ‘Charlie’s Country’, ‘Diplomacy’, ‘Timbuktu’ to screen at MVFF 37
An early look at what to expect at the Mill Valley Film Festival, including 3 world cinema entries, and video previews.