Home of the Week: Italian Renaissance-style in La Jolla

Six-bedroom, five-courtyard home with Venetian accents offers ocean and coastline views. Taking its cues from Teatro La Fenice, an opera house in Venice, this Italian Renaissance-style estate was recently doubled in size. Five courtyards bring the living space outdoors to take advantage of the ocean and coastline views.

All in One: Home Theater In a Box, Why the MP3 Is Good Enough, and Preparing for Those Inevitable Gmail Outages [Video]

# theshow This week on the podcast, we're prepping for the next Gmail outage, learning a new language in a matter of months, and wondering if an all-in-one home theater is a good idea. We'll also figure out the best time to upgrade to an iPhone, the best format for your music, and how to fix one of Flash's biggest annoyances. More »

2012 Summer Events Guide: Theater and dance top picks

Classics, comedy and dance for summer enjoyment.

Win tickets to a show at The Contemporary American Theater Festival

The Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV runs from July 6-29, 2012 with performances Wednesday-Sunday.

This is what native 4K home cinema looks like on Sony's VPL-VW1000ES projector

Why are folks so keyed up about 4K ? At first glance, that's the type of question that answers itself: by definition, a 4096-pixel wide image delivers around four times the resolution of 1920 x 1080, and that's a healthy multiple. It's actually of a broadly similar magnitude to the difference between 1080p and old-fashioned analog NTSC video, and nobody these days questions the value of that ...