Clinton Stark

Clinton Stark
Clinton shoots videos for Stark Insider. San Francisco Bay Area arts, Ingmar Bergman and French New Wave, and chasing the perfect home espresso shot 25 seconds at a time (and failing). Peloton: ClintTheMint. Camera: Video Gear

Scam alert: Android Market littered with Apps of questionable origin and intent

Advertising on mobile apps is not a crime. In fact, it's a perfectly legitimate way for developers and companies to recoup some costs for apps they create for free and publish to the Android market. However, I do take issue with a handful of nefarious people who are using non-sanctioned...
Loreto City Hall

Loreto City Hall: Dig, dig, dig

Here you can see more street work in process—and just when you thought it was complete!

Cinequest: ‘Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland’

In the mood for something different? How about an eccentric Swiss black comedy? Yes. I know what you're thinking. Not another eccentric Swiss black comedy. Beresina is an intriguing, quirky musical that played at Cannes and Cinequest, and is now available as a Cinequest release. It is regarded as one...

San Jose Sharks host Ottawa Sens tonight at HP Pavilion, multiple storylines in play

My old hometown NHL team, the Ottawa Sens—who, did you know, won a Stanley Cup back in 1912?—is in town tonight at HP Pavilion to take on my new hometown team, the powerhouse Sharks. The match-up is especially interesting due in part to the off-season blockbuster trade that sent Dany...

Theater review: ‘Another Night Before Christmas’ at City Lights Theatre, San Jose

Is Santa Claus real or is he just a homeless man with a jolly attitude, bursting belly and good sense of humor? Grumpy, burnt-out Karol (Lisa-Marie Newton) must search for the answer when The Man (Michael Johnson) breaks into her home on Christmas eve. His motives are unclear; instead of stealing...

Cisco FlipShare TV

FlipShare TV from Cisco, the makers of the runaway hit Flip Video camcorder, is now available. Here are some of the reviews below. Looking for a place to buy FlipShare TV? Try Amazon. Review Highlights Engadget: FlipShare TV review Flip's certainly on to something with the idea of the FlipShare TV, and particularly with...

Arrington’s CrunchPad garage project finds new home in DeadPool

Dirty laundry is once again being aired today on TechCrunch in a rambling, he said/she said post by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington about the death of the CrunchPad, a would-be tablet Internet Browser. Over 18 months in the making, it was a joint project between Arrington and a partner, Fusion...

Theater review: You’ll shoot your eye out with laughter at ‘A Christmas Story’ #ACStory

Oh, what would Bing Crosby think—or sing? Yes it's a white Christmas in 1940's Indiana, but they're no chestnuts roasting by the fire. Instead we enter the wacky, even sometimes gloriously campy, world of the Parkers: leg lamps, hound-stealing turkeys, rubber snakes falling from the skies, and grumpy mall...

Magellan releases Navigation app for iPhone, Google #1 threat

GPS makers, notably Magellan and Garmin (GRMN, market cap $6.2B), are in full scramble mode. Surprising no one, earlier this month Magellan released an iPhone app version of its Roadmate navigation system for $79.99 (regularly $99), now available on iTunes. Although I'm sure they've seen it coming for a while, Google is...

Opening tonight: ‘A Christmas Story’ at the San Jose Rep

After all that turkey (and the stuffing... oh, the stuffing, and the gravy... and the stuffing), Black Friday shopping and good times with family and friends, what about plans for the rest of the long Thanksgiving weekend? Might I suggest working off some of those calories with a night on...