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
‘Pushing 30’ producer Scott Held on independent film, turning 30 and film festivals
Every waiter in LA has a screenplay. So how do you differentiate? Make the film! That's exactly what independent film producer Scott Held has done with 'Pushing 30.'
The script literally wrote itself thanks to his real life experiences and some ups and downs when he, along with some friends,...
Buying a Netbook? 2 reasons to wait…
You might just want to hold on to that Best Buy gift card a few weeks longer if you're in the market for a netbook (or regular laptop too).
Windows 7, which promises to be everything Vista should have been (and the early reports are very positive), launches October 22nd.
The...
TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon: A Google for local services?
The news just came in, via Twitter of course: the TechCrunch50 2009 winner, from a field of 50 start-ups, is RedBeacon. Who? Well, chances are you haven't heard of them, or just about any TechCrunch50 participant for that matter. And that's the whole point. These are potentially the (really...
Theater preview: ‘Brief Encounter’ opens Wed at A.C.T. in San Francisco
The British are coming (again)! This time in Noël Coward's Brief Encounter opening this week at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. The production, a US premiere, is directed and adapted for stage by Emma Rice from Kneehigh Theatre in England. After playing here for about a month,...
Champagne, France begins “promising” harvest
According to the Champagne Bureau (Washington, DC), 2009 should be another "high quality season" for producers of the famous bubbly from Champagne, France. Although the weather was challenging earlier, it has been dry for at least a month which is apparently helping the grapes mature faster than last year.
Given...
TechCrunch50: Interesting start-ups at San Francisco conference
TechCrunch has rapidly established itself as the go-to Blog related to technology, start-ups, venture capital and Silicon Valley. Unlike testosterone-fueled sites like Engadget and Gizmodo—entertaining enough in their own right—founder Michael Arrington's TechCrunch is more concerned with the business side of tech. Although not so much that they can't...
Bing, now with Bam!
With Bing, Microsoft continues to go all out in a middling and perhaps doomed effort to to slow Google. The latest feature added to the new, heavily hyped (but awfully familiar, ahem...Microsoft Live interface anyone?) search engine is "visual search." Yes, what's old is new again, at least when...
Announcing the Stark Insider Bay Area Theater & Arts Guide
We're very pleased to be working with the theater and arts community here in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than ever the arts are an important source of culture, entertainment and community. And with Web 2.0 we can create an even more vibrant experience, connecting theaters, audiences, actors...
Week in review: “Cool it, cat!”, SF Bay Area arts, newspapers
I must say, I relish the moments when Loni meets her equal. That was the case in our first episode, "The Teacher & The Pear," of the new web show The Artist Diaries.
Follow Loni as she pursues her right brain dream of becoming a master painter.
Her teacher had to...
San Jose Sharks finally make deal everyone expected
Talk about anti-climatic.
Kind of like the Sharks' finish to the '08/09 season, lots of talk and expectations, but ultimately resulting in a rubber chicken of a first round exit. Or something like that.
The news: San Jose Sharks get soap opera star Dany Heatley from the Sens in exchange for...
