Clinton Stark

You may have heard about a new smartphone called the Motorola Droid? You may have also gotten tired already of my incessant cheerleading... blogging about Android this, Moto that. The phone is remarkable. An iPhone killer, no—again, that requires an iTunes killer first. Content is king. But for now it's the...

A rival to TweetDeck on the desktop, I've been a long-time fan of Seesmic.

A promising new technology from a Seattle-based company called Swype appears to be a compelling alternative to hunt-and-peck typing on the trusty old QWERTY keyboard. It's another potential start-up success story launched at TechCrunch, in 2008. Instead of tapping on keys, the user types words by tracing a path across...

Through-and-through, fantastic! Yet again I'm impressed with the quality of family entertainment Berkeley Playhouse offers its lucky theater goers. A packed house of kids and parents on Sunday relished in the magic, singing, dancing of this updated version of the venerable The Wizard of Oz. It is first class family entertainment...

Set to launch tonight, Apple wants to set the record straight with a new ad campaign for its flagship iPhone. It seems that Motorola and Verizon have found a way to get under the skin of the previously unflappable titan of all things gadget cool. In recent weeks millions of...

Cinequest, one of the country's most influential and fastest growing film festivals—not to mention the pride of San Jose—has announced pass holder and contributor programs for 2010. The festival starts in just 90 days, running from February 23 - March 7, 2010. In an email to fans, friends and industry,...

"It's a pseudo documentary about reality in the theater," says one of the characters/actors in David Greenspan's She Stoops to Comedy which premiered last night at SF Playhouse. It's one of several, pithy lines that occasionally inject entertainment value into the otherwise uneven gender-bending production. The pieces don't add up and instead of a...

The Culinary Institute of America (the other CIA) based in St. Helena, California today announced the Vintners Hall of Fame 2010 class. The five new members to be inducted are Randall Grahm, Andy Beckstoffer, Al Brounstein, Zelma Long and Leon Adams. When we toured the hall earlier this year (see...

City Lights' Another Night Before Christmas opens tonight with a gala at the downtown San Jose theater. Thankfully this doesn't appear to be a straight ahead, red cheeks, ho-ho-ho take on holiday theater (bah humbug). Despite their small size and budget, City Lights takes risks and often chooses interesting, non-conventional...