Stark Insider

Stark Insider
Stark Insider is a San Francisco-based arts and tech web site founded in 2004. Arts, Film, Tech & Lifestyle. A West Coast Adventure. A Lifetime in the Making.

Theater Review: ‘Rent’ at City Lights, San Jose

And it is about the people that we become when that love is rent from us and rips an incredible hole from our hearts and souls.

Theater Review: ‘Auctioning the Ainsleys’

An absurd, charming, funny production about people, objects, family and what happens to all of them when one’s memory is Going… Going… GONE!
San Francisco Opera Presents Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West

Opera Review: La Fanciulla del West

"Cinematic" was the first word to come to mind from the very first orchestra opening notes and the unusually quick curtain rise.
Loreto Bay, Baja Update

New Week, New News – Loreto Extra

The Inn at Loreto Bay is undergoing some minor changes. The palm trees have been trimmed of the dead branches (hopefully the Paseo trees will follow) and a load of sand is being deployed in the “rock garden” to the right of the reception area. Unfortunately it...

Loreto Bay: Agua Viva, rainbow edition

The Immigration officer was quite efficient. I was in and out in less than 5 minutes.
Loreto Baja June Update, City Hall

Loreto update June 2010

I drove from San Francisco to San Quintin in about 13 hours thanks to a bit of a delay in LA traffic and a checkpoint inspection in Tijuana even though I got the green light.

More Tuna, PLEASE!

Run on down to the San Jose Stage and be prepared to laugh your red, white and blues away. Red White and Tuna is funnier than a flash flood in a Fizzie factory!

From Loreto to “Dust to Glory”

Dust to Glory, the story of the Baja Mil (1000), has been happening in Baja since 1967.

Cortez finds a home and family

Guest post by Jane Lurie. Our friend Michele is a guardian of all homeless dogs she meets in Loreto. Just before Michele and her family left Loreto to return home to Lake Oswego, Oregon a small dog appeared in our neighborhood. He seemed very frightened but so sweet. He wouldn't...

Another yummy find in Loreto

Guest post by Jane Lurie. You have heard of Michoacana, the popular ice cream/popsicle store in Loreto several times here on SSC.  On November 11 of last year, Loni  interviewed Orlando about the newly opened snack stand that the family opened next door. We visited what is now called "Capital...