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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Florence + The Machine to headline BottleRock 2016

BY MONICA TURNER — 01.05.2016

Napa Valley’s massive music festival once again returns in 2016. BottleRock organizers have announced that the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Wonder, and Florence+The Machine…

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Central Works Berkeley 2016 Season

BY MONICA TURNER — 01.05.2016

Central Works New Play Theater in Berkeley has revealed its 2016 line-up. Organizers tell us they will continue to focus on new work “drawing from…

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Backstage: ODYSSEO by Cavalia – Horse Training & Aerial Skills (Video)

BY LONI STARK — 12.10.2015

Stark Insider continues to pursue the creative impulse, and the people who bring us magic — be it in the arts, food, film, music, or…

The Fundamentals of Caring / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Rob Burnett)

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Sundance 2016 film lineup announced

BY CLINTON STARK — 12.08.2015

Above: Craig Roberts and Paul Rudd in The Revised Fundamentals of Caring. Dir: Rob Burnett, USA. Sundance has revealed the lineup for the 2016 edition…

Horse Arrival - Odysseo by Cavalia (AT&T Park, San Franciso)

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In Photos: ‘Odysseo’ horse arrival at AT&T Park

BY MONICA TURNER — 12.02.2015

Cavalia is once again in town. Odysseo, its astonishing new production, opened last month in San Francisco, and has already been extended through early 2016.…

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‘Odysseo’ by Cavalia: Magic on horseback (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 11.23.2015

The daunting power behind even one of these animals galloping across stage leaves you breathless, even before humans engage them in Roman and western trick…

Rob Thomas - Live in the Vineyard @ Sutter Home Winery, Napa

Stark Insider Videos

Interview: Rob Thomas “Hold on Forever” + LITV concert highlights (Video)

BY MONICA TURNER — 11.18.2015

In this Stark Insider video feature, legendary singer-songwriter Rob Thomas performs an acoustic set at Sutter Home Wines and then sits down with Loni Stark for an…

The Monster Builder - Aurora Theatre Company, Berkele

Culture

A monster builder, a master play

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 11.16.2015

A talented cast at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company holds the show together through all its twists and turns.

Theater and Stage

New plays at the Olympians festival hold water

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 11.13.2015

30 new plays by 31 local writers make for imaginative evening of theater.

Culture

Philharmonia Baroque and Richard Egarr: Lithe, light, friendly

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 11.12.2015

This material highlights how different the historically informed performances of PBO (and the Academy of Ancient Music) are from anything most of us grew up…