San Francisco Weekend: BottleRock Napa, Pen/Man/Ship, Star Chefs Gala, Triassic Parq
On the Stark Insider radar: some interesting plays, a music and wine festival, and a gala that lights up the city with generosity each year.
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.
Pinot Classic and Paulée dinner in Sonoma (Video)
Video highlights from the annual Russian River Valley Pinot Classic and Paulée in Sonoma. Including a tour by Jean-Charles Boisset of the 18th century appointed…
Stark Insider is Motorin’ (5 Years, 500 videos)
The creative aspect of running a new media venture such as SI and producing videos has been a challenging, frustrating, rewarding, unpredictable, mile-burning, thankful, inspiring…
The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism
Such true-to-life characterizations may be why Tony Taccone characterizes this play as being about the death of the left, and a love story about the…
Music in Context: The Ives Quartet performs Julian Waterfall Pollack
Just as the Goat Rodeo is a genre-jumping experience, this Pollack quartet composition is what the Ives Quartet refers to as music for the vernacular:…
In latest publicity stunt Amazon delivers a Nissan
Why is a giant orange box sitting along a tourist area along the Embarcadero waterfront in San Francisco?
‘The Big Meal’: More than a mouthful at the San Jose Rep
The emotional impact of all this action ripples across the audience, particularly during the past twenty minutes when sniffles become audible as yet another character…
Things to Do: The Big Meal, ‘Chef’ the movie, Off the Grid, Santa Lucia Highlands Gala
New film alert: Chef, directed by and starring Jon Favreau, opens in San Francisco May 16. Also: Off the Grid, The Big Meal, Santa Lucia…
Stark Insider TV: Gia Coppola brings teen nihilism to big screen thanks to James Franco (Video)
First time director Gia Coppola (PALO ALTO) sits down with Stark Insider to talk about meeting James Franco at a deli, the willingness to fail…
Mark Kenward in ‘Nantucket’ at the Berkeley Marsh (Review)
So powerful was his hold on the audience, the only evidence that anyone was even breathing was an occasional gasp.