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Is Anything 'Made in California' Anymore? Law Would Create Prideful Label

You know you swell up just a little bit when you read that "Designed by Apple in California" label on the back of your iPhone. Don't be too proud, though:

Edward "Apple" Nelson Is a Legendary L.A. Drummer and 70-Year-Old Yoga Enthusiast

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] You could mistake the funky drummer born Edward Nelson for a decade and a half younger than his 70 years. We're in the Highland Park offices of Now-Again ... More >>

Alex Lyras Talks About Performing a Solo Show About iPhones That Sparked a Scandal for Its Author, Mike Daisey

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews It did not take Alex Lyras long to realize that there was something uniquely different about performing Mike Daisey's solo play The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Sitting in the Farmers Market on a recent afternoon after getting the bum's rush by a Grove se ... More >>

A Chat With Trimpin, an Artist Who Combines Music, Apps and Robots

Trimpin is a sound artist, a sculptor, an engineer and inventor, a musician... All of these characterizations describe the work he creates, housed in museum and public collections around the globe. And yet none of them alone pin down Trimpin's enigmatic art. The work of this German-born, Seattle-b ... More >>

Marijuana's The Next Big Wall Street Investment?

Real estate has been a dismal bust, Facebook is a disappointment, and Apple costs too much. What's an investment mogul to do? Boy, do we have a "green" opportunity for you. Marijuana is now fully legal in two states, Colorado and Washington, following last week's elections. There are opportunities ... More >>

'Applefied Ads': Santa Monica Ad Intern Delights Internet by Giving Household Products the Apple Treatment

White background. Stark chrome letters. Floating Apple product, suspended from heaven. Bleh. Bryan Evans, a recent Pepperdine graduate and summer intern at the Rubin Postaer and Associates ad agency in Santa Monica, is so over the Apple advertising formula. "At one point, Apple had the most ground ... More >>

Mark Gurman, Apple's Toughest Beat Journalist, is High School Teen From L.A.

Apple has been known to have thin skin when it comes to journalists who expose its secrets. Remember when an iPhone prototype ended up in the hands of a Gizmodo journalist and his home was searched by cops? Yeah. But maybe the behemoth from Cupertino has met its match in the form of a high schooler ... More >>

Apple to Build Employee-Only Restaurant to Keep Out Spies and Competitors

Say your company has top-secret information that it would like to contain within the confines of its campus. But, your employees eat, as people do, at public restaurants. And at these public restaurants, they, as people unfortunately do, talk about their work, which often includes inadvertent disc ... More >>

SOPA Supported, Apple Trusted, Internet Data Collection Feared by Californians

Strange days in the world of technology: You're afraid your information is being ripped off by big internet companies. But you support the much-maligned SOPA legislation. And you trust Apple, in recent times the most valuable corporation on the planet. Huh? Those are some of the contradictory resu ... More >>

The iPad is L.A.'s Hot Accessory, But Critics of Apple Factory Conditions Are Tainting its Hipness

We've seen some bizarre fashion accessories in this, strange, star-struck town: Chihuahuas, stolen necklaces and adopted babies to name a few. The hottest accoutrement these days seems to an Apple iPad. Because it goes so well with a $1,500 handbag.

Employed Americans Take $1,000 Worth of Coffee Breaks a Year

R.E.~/FlickrAmerican workers spend about $1,000 a year on coffee​If one of your resolutions this year is to save more money, you might want to start with your coffee budget. Staffing firm Accounting Principals surveyed 1,000 employed Americans about their work-related spending habits and foun ... More >>

Fake iPhone Parts Alleged to be Worth $250,000 Seized in San Gabriel Valley: Three Arrested

AppleThe real deal.​Does anyone remember when the hot part to steal was the rim off a car or its air bag? Old school, we know. Well, here in 2011, the new contraband of the criminal realm, it seems, is iPhone parts. (Another sign of nerds triumphant). Authorities in the San Gabriel Valley ... More >>

Will Steve Jobs' Death Help Sell iPhone 4S?

Update: Sure enough! In the 24 hours since it's been available for pre-order, the iPhone 4S has almost doubled all previous iPhone records in that period. Apple reports that one million phones have been sold. Stock, naturally, is up as well. Lesson: Grief sells. Originally posted October 6 at 1 p.m ... More >>

Former UCLA Student Proposes to Girlfriend via Flash Mob: 'You're So Cheesy' (VIDEO)

Flash Mob America has news for you: When it comes to marriage proposals, flash mobs are the new baseball-game billboards! Or sky messages! Or tombstones, as the case may be! Thus completing the transition of the flash-mob concept from rebel's rally to gushy Hallmark musical. (See also: Disney flash ... More >>

iPhone Porn? There's a Controversial New App For That

Hottest Girls​While your iPhone's browser can take you just about anywhere your pervy heart desires, Apple has been touchy about approving actual apps with sexual content. The App Store might as well be an Hamish town, because, according to company policy: Apps containing pornographic materia ... More >>

iPhone 5 Could be Coming in September: Illustrations Show a Sleek New Version of Apple's Hipster Handset

Ay mamacita.​So you're one of the legions of Echo Park hipsters who proudly threw down your summer internship stipend for the boxy iPhone 4? Haw-haw. The smart guys and girls at Macrumors have put together illustrations of what they think the next iPhone will look like, and it's so much cool ... More >>

Apps That Tip iPhone Users Off to Drunk Driver Checkpoint Locations Nixed by Apple

hotgirlswithiphones.com​Trying to avoid DUI checkpoints this weekend? There's an app for that. Or, at least, there was. Bowing to pressure following outrage from anti-drunk-driving activists and politicians over the tip-off apps, Apple has quietly written them out of its App Store, omitting t ... More >>

iPhone, White and Slightly Thicker, Attracts Hoardes of Latino, Black Men to L.A. Area Apple Stores (We're Joking)

AppleIsn't she lovely?​Apple finally dropped the white iPhone 4 on us yesterday. And while it's not noticeably superior -- sorry skinheads -- it is slightly thicker. This led some bloggers to wonder if extra UV protection needed to protect the gadget from the sun (seriously) led to it adding ... More >>

VIDEO: Disney Stars Get Kicked Out of L.A. Apple Store for G-Rated 'Lemonade Mouth' Flash Mob

YouTubeiDisney​As far as flash mobs go -- within that zany, renegade art form of creating sudden chaos in an agreed-upon public location -- it doesn't get more corporate than reenacting a scene from a made-for-TV Disney movie in an Apple Store. At Eastertime, no less! But apparently, no flash ... More >>

Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been the Past Year

hotgirlswithiphones.comApple is getting creepy.​Stunning news out of the tech world this week: You're iPhone is tracking your every move and saving it in a file that can be converted into a map. It has been doing this for almost a year -- since June, according to the UK's Guardian newspaper. ... More >>

Donald LeBuhn Files Class Action Lawsuit in LA Against Apple: Says iPhone 4 Glass Casing Sucks and is Not as Strong as Apple Advertises

Gizmodo​If you own an iPhone 4 and the glass casing has broken, you are not alone. So many people have complained, in fact, that the phenomenon has even earned the nickname, "Glassgate." Apparently fed up and pissed off, California resident Donald LeBuhn filed a class action lawsuit earlier thi ... More >>

Don't Buy An iPad This Christmas! (A New One's Coming Out In April, Say Chinese Spies)

The iPad 2 will upgrade to laser-proof gorilla tape​Nothing to damper your love affair with the bright, shiny new iPad in your stocking like finding out in February that a brighter, shinier, probably way cooler one now exists, rendering your dark, dull 2010 version a total clunker. Luckily, de ... More >>

Los Angeles Gets 4G Network Via Sprint: iPhone Users Are Out Of Luck

AppleMore 'G' please.​Los Angeles is finally getting a 4G network. Yay! It's on Sprint. Pout. It's cool though. It looks like, if you're geek like that, you can buy a router and get 4G speed on your nearby iPad or laptop. But iPhones, despite being in version 4, are out of luck for now. Spr ... More >>

(Video) Steve Jobs Wants Your Kidney: New Law Signed By Gov. Schwarzenegger Makes That Possible

We've given Steve Job's company thousands for Apple products: Does he really need our kidney?​As if he doesn't have enough in life -- Apple, lots of money, unlimited iPhones -- Steve Jobs wants your kidney. Actually, he doesn't need your kidney. But as a transplant recipient (he got a new live ... More >>

Apple Schedules Special Press Conference To Address Problems With iPhone 4

Gizmodo​Apple scheduled a press conference Friday to address a growing roar of discontent with its iPhone 4, which this week was found by Consumer Reports to have serious issues with reception. The San Jose Mercury News called the last-minute conference "unprecedented" for the normally quali ... More >>

Lines For The iPhone Could Mean Leak Of New Gadget Did Apple Good

​One of Apple's arguments in its push to condemn the website Gizmodo and those journalists who helped to leak images and information about the new iPhone was that the unauthorized previews hurt sales of its existing phone model because, getting a taste of the edgy new gadget, people would wait ... More >>

Bunch Of People Wait In Line For A Phone

Steve La​ Hundreds of geek boys, techies, computer neophytes, Apple lovers, PC haters and the common Everyman in between eagerly lined up to get their hands on the 4th generation iPhone hitting Apple stores today. At the Pasadena Apple Store, it was pre-ordered-haves versus pre-ordered-have-no ... More >>

Golden State Funk

A new generation rediscovers the lost singles of California's "Right On" era. Plus: a real soul survivor speaks

L.A. Times Joins Battle Over Reporter Searched After Revealing New iPhone

gizmodo.comThe next iPhone.​The Los Angeles Times has joined a group of news organizations that asked a judge to help reveal why a journalist had his home raided last month after he helped to reveal the next-generation iPhone via Gizmodo.com. The request was denied Thursday by San Mateo Count ... More >>

Should Hollywood Be Afraid Of The iPad?

Apple​As Apple honcho Steve Jobs introduced the company's latest game-changer, the iPad, the Los Angeles Times called it "the most anticipated tablet since Moses.'" Over-hyped or not, the possibilities for this near 10-inch touch-screen computer will probably roll over us slowly -- the same wa ... More >>

Dublab Teams with ZubRangMa to Offer Wild-Ass Thai Psych-Funk Podcast [MP3]

For the past few years, the obsessive funk and psychedelic collectors have started venturing overseas to find the obscurities; having dug and dug in search of Stateside gems, the headz have found themselves dug all the way to the other side of the world pillaging Asia for rarities. Which is a cool a ... More >>

We've Seen Fake iPhones, Panerai Watches And ... Mac Computers? Yes, And They're Legal (For Now)

Rashantha De Silva sells clones.​Last month we told you about the strange saga of a small company called Pystar that makes Apple Mac computer clones that were being sold locally at Rashantha De Silva's Quo Computer in South Pasadena. The only problem with these boxes was that Apple wasn't impr ... More >>

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Falling James on the Beatles Remasters: "Get the Originals Out There First. Desecrate Later"

By Falling James I was surprised to see that the 7-11 up the street had a carton of the new Beatles CDs on sale, sitting on the counter right beside the register. Usually, 7-11 doesn't traffic in such fine musical merchandise, apart from the occasional Miley Cyrus plastic bauble, and definitely not ... More >>

Nerd Porn: Apple LCD Logo Mod, or Turn that Tiny Apple Into A Video Screen

This is a fantastic little Apple mod. Basically, you can turn that glowing logo on the back of your laptop into a tiny video screen. It functions as a second monitor. You can run a screensaver on it.

iTunes to Go DRM free, Drop Some Prices, Raise Others

A few weeks ago after a visit to the Mac repair shop for my ailing MacBook, one of my favorite albums of the year, the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, stopped working on my iTunes because I apparently had used the music on too many computers. Which was a load of crap, of course. I had ... More >>

Queer Town: Apple Donates to No on 8

Apple, the company that created the iPod and the iPhone, has given $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign, Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Dish reports. Apple very publicly stated its position on its start page today, which may make a whole bunch of gay men wear their iPods in the gym with a little more prid ... More >>

Islands in the Afternoon, Th' Corn Gangg in the Evening

If you're a fan of Montreal art pop band Islands, who floored us twice this spring at various festivals, you may want to take a half day today, or at least take a long lunch in Santa Monica. The band, who are touring in support of their newly released Arm's Way, are playing at 1 p.m. today at the ... More >>

It's not the technology stupid!: Romantic & pragmatic thoughts on what consumers want from recorded music

CDs are kind of fucked, but so are radical new models of music consumption. The key to selling music is still not about convenience, price, or practicality. It is about obsession and possession and most of all object fetish.

From BIM to "BOOM!"

The Apple and Stunt Rock @ The New Beverly Cinema, March 25th Little gives an LA cinephile greater joy than to see the New Beverly Cinema booming at the start of 2008. In light of longtime owner Sherman Torgan’s sudden and untimely death last year, it seemed as though our last remaining true r ... More >>

Grammy Nominations

If you are the kind of person that actually pays attention to this kind of thing, then here's a full list of this year's Grammy nominees . Yes, Amy Winehouse got a ton of nominations, if she can hold it together until the awards area announced. Kanye West got eight, and we can only hope he gets sh ... More >>

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The Hipster’s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

Here’s to the Machine

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