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
Theater review: ‘The Chosen’ an ideological evening
With 'The Chosen,' TheatreWorks' latest production tackles large issues, including the Holocaust, faith, and Zionism. Not bad for a Saturday night. As stage entertainment, however, it delivers mixed results.
On the one hand, intensity and poignancy abound as two teenage boys and their fathers search for their place in a...
The Weekend: Gone in 60 Seconds
What does it mean to "undo a man?" That + San Francisco, Half Moon Bay theatre, hockey and more!
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My Porsche 911 story
Tom Cruise famously said in Risky Business, "Porsche. There is no substitute." The perfect line after the perfect getaway from Guido the killer pimp. If you listen carefully, I think you can even hear him mutter "... even marriage."
Lesson to all men: once you have a 911 in your...
Fall show preview #4: Loreto Live TV
Imagine a place where you can really-and I mean really-get away from it all. No Starbucks in sight. No Costco. Just towering mountains perched on top of a sparkling blue sea. Head just south of California, and you'll discover the Baja, a rugged landscape, largely untouched.
Just a few hours by...
Theater weekend preview: The Glass Menagerie and The Chosen
More Bay Are theater coverage coming up this weekend for SSC. Would it ever be any different? It seems like we're always running around San Francisco, San Jose and Berkeley. Hey, life's too short not to get out there and catch some live performances.
This weekend we'll even take our...
How to go from start-up to $170M acquisition in 3 years flat
Mint.com and its founder Aaron Patzer have become the most recent poster child for the potential for meteoric success here in Silicon Valley when you play your cards right. It's not a Facebook or Google-size story, but it's impressive for several reasons.
First and foremost, who would've though that there was room...
Gavin Newsom wants your votes: 1 for Governor, 1 for Logo
Our very own social media savvy San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom, knows how to build some good old fashioned Twitter and Facebook buzz. This time, it's a vote, not yet for Governor, but for his new campaign logo.
Branding and marketing gurus, it's your time to shine and put a...
Fall show preview #3: The Artist Diaries
Have you ever wanted to chase a dream? Maybe it's racing cars. Writing a book. Dancing. Or becoming a Julia Child-like protégé. In Loni's case, it's to be a painter—a master painter no less. In her spare time, that is, when not at Adobe. Well, she can start with...
Fall show preview #2: WineTube TV
Ah, yes, wine country. As host of Stark Insider, Loni, would say, "the people, the places, the vines." I'm not sure what that means exactly, but it sounds like fun.
Stark Insider has been covering wine for about two years. We then launched WineTube TV in early 2009. Our goal is...
New media news: Ad revenue down 5.2% 1H’09, FTC sets endorsement rules for Blogs
There's never a dull moment in the new media publishing space. Information travels so fast these days, it's unfathomable. Remember the shampoo commercial where one friend tells another? Or the Brady Bunch opening? Multiply by about a million to get a sense of how fast, and how global this...
