Monica Turner

Monica Turner
Contributor to Stark Insider for tech, the arts and All Things West Coast for over 10 years.

Casa Mesquite furniture for Loreto Bay homes

Casa Mesquite, craftsman of fine quality solid wood furniture, has been providing homeowners customized selections of furniture uniquely tailored for their Loreto Bay homes....
Conan O'Brien Tonight Show

The difference between Brett Favre and Jay Leno

It's an obvious question: what's the difference between Brett Favre and Jay Leno? There are a multitude of punchlines, none of which I'm good at...

Cutting Ball Theater Hidden Classics Reading Series “Medea VS. Medea” January 31

Co-founded in 1999 by theater artists Rob Melrose and Paige Rogers, Cutting Ball Theater presents avant-garde works of the past, present, and future by...

Seventeenth Annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival A Sensational Season of Food, Wine and Art Events

The 17th annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival will burst into bloom in January of 2010. The Festival’s line up of stellar events, January 30...
The First Grade

Aurora Theatre Company presents world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson’s “The First Grade”

  Aurora Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of lauded Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s THE FIRST GRADE. Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross...

Winemaker Joel Aiken Launches Wine Consulting Company

Internationally known winemaker, Joel Aiken, has left the position of Vice President of Winemaking at the world-renowned Beaulieu Vineyard (BV) in Napa Valley to...

Public Grand Tasting – Top 100 Cabs of the Napa Valley

Join us as we taste the judges choices for the "Best of the Best" Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley at Napa's top restaurant, Bayleaf...

‘By A Thread’ at ICA puts a contemporary spin on a centuries-old medium

The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is pleased to present By A Thread, an exhibition of artwork by emerging and mid-career Bay...

2010 Silicon Valley International Auto Show runs Jan 7-10 in San Jose

One of the best "shows" of the year opens today. Of course I'm talking about the Silicon Valley International Auto Show. Or it might...

Snap! Words that should be banned, OMG!

Snap! OMG! FAIL. Epic. Goodness. Actually "snap!" is not so bad, but there are many words creeping into our daily lexicon that make me cringe....