Tag: San Francisco

PinotFest is billed as San Francisco’s original, all-Pinot Noir "bacchanalia." Or as organizers also refer to it as: a public tasting of a sexy wine.

The classic story is set in Charleston’s fabled Catfish Row, where the beautiful Bess struggles to break free from her scandalous past, and the only one who can rescue her is the courageous Porgy.

Barbara Oliver joined the PlayGround Company and began directing for PlayGround in 2004, shortly after stepping down as Founding Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company.

At 20, Bill Gates was a rebel. His biggest early foe were hobbyists. "They thought that if one of them bought it [the software], they could share it... there was a big fight about it... Bill Gates called them thieves."

Off-Broadway hit Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by Dan and Jeff opens in San Francisco on December 3rd, and will run for six days.

Ben Stiller talks about zoning out and his secret Walter Mitty moment at Mill Valley Film Festival.

"It gives you a slice of life of the Tenderloin," says Bierma, "You get a chance to meet some of the residents." The short premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival in 2011.

Stark Insider was on location at the Mill Valley Film Festival and shot Jared Leto's appearance, which included a red carpet arrival, and Q&A after the screening of Dallas Buyers Club.

In a world in which piano virtuosi are becoming commonplace, Schiff consistently opens up the heart of a piece in ways that makes beginning pianists hopeful and master musicians jealous.

Falling between someone’s vision of Eurotrash crossed with lounge lizard, Koch one of the highest energy performers on the stage, strutting the stage and offering a peek into a fascinating world of Saddam’s palace with gold toilet seats and gold-plated weapons.