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
San Jose Repertory Theater: The ‘Bee’ Interview – Part 2
https://vimeo.com/4936876
This is part 2 of the interview with three of the cast members from the entertaining musical, 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' now playing at the San Jose Repertory Theater.
In this segment, the cast talks about some of the challenges of dealing with audience members participating on stage....
Review: ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ hits all the right road kill
Take some trailer trash, a magic-marker sniffing cowboy, toilet brush wielding hootchie mommas and f-bomb dropping, drifting stripper.
Weekly digest #22: Boleros, Spelling Bee interview and best wine blogs
It was a short week because of Memorial Day, but it certainly didn't feel that way. Wine, theater, and Loreto filled the days and evenings with plenty of stories, photos and even a video or two.
2006 St. Francis Chardonnay, Sonoma County ($12, 89 pts.)
Just right commented most: crisp, easy drinking with enough melon, lime and slight grassiness to keep it interesting.
The next generation of netbooks: faster, cheaper, and more… uh, notebook-like
I've been following the latest announcements on the Netbook front over the past few months. The perfect storm — bad economy, demand for portability, emergence of cloud computing — has resulted in an explosive market segment. Consumers are devouring these things like mad.
The days of the $1,000+ laptop are...
Best wine blogs: Why these 5 score 90+ points
There's no shortage of opinions when it comes to the topic of wine. Here's some of our favorite wine blogs and wine web sites that you should read.
Ross Halleck of Halleck Vineyard talks about wine branding, marketing and great Pinots
What's it like to follow your winemaking dream, after a successful career in branding and marketing in Silicon Valley?
Find out in this episode of Wine Tales as Loni is joined by Ross Halleck to talk about his Sebastobol-based winery and vineyard in Sonoma County.
Pinot put him on the map,...
SJ Rep Theater Interview: Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Part 1
https://vimeo.com/4840910
Loni sits down with three of the cast members of the SJ Rep Theater production 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' to discuss acting, musicals, and, of course, spelling. Do they know their ABCs?
In this interview:
Marc De La Cruz as Chip Tolentino
Dani Marcus as Olive Ostrovsky
Clifton Guterman as...
Movie review: Bottle Shock (2008) proves wine alone does not make for great spectacle
As much as I love wine, it alone cannot carry a movie. Where Sideways succeeds, Bottle Shock fails. The difference? The former is about two guys dealing with mid-life crises with wine as a backdrop. Bottle Shock is just about wine, and it turns out to be a boring...
Weekly digest #21: Memorial Day Edition
Did you know that over 620,000 soldiers died in the Civil War? Or that in 2000, Congress established a National Moment of Remembrance, which asks Americans to pause for one minute at 3 p.m. in an act of national unity. The time was chosen because 3 p.m. "is the...
