Clinton Stark

"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...

The whiz-bang kids in Mountain View are at it again. With a wave of their billion dollar wand they are now making the world a better place for the hearing impaired. While YouTube allows for manual captioning, thanks to Google's voice recognition technology a new feature just released enables videos...

Two things were clear to me after our Baja adventure came to an end tonight as we landed in LAX: the Loreto Bay development in the Baja is going to be just fine; and the Motorola Droid is a definite keeper. Despite the lack of Verizon coverage in Mexico,...

I've been following the avalanche of all things Android for the past few weeks. While I'm still on the fence myself, I do know two things: Motorola Droid is not an iPhone killer (what's needed is an iTunes killer, folks) and that Palm is going down in flames... again....

How does the new Motorola Droid phone fare in the rugged terrain of the hot, humid Baja desert? Well, aside from the absence of any Verizon service, remarkably well. And much to other's concern, sans protector or case. The wi-fi feature is great and has allowed me to use the Droid...

The good times keep on rolling. Theater in the Bay Area is—and, yes, I know you may grow tired of me repeating myself—a terrific experience, to say the least. There's something about the live energy. The anticipation. And knowing what you're about to see will be absolutely unique for that...