Andy Sternberg

Steve Jobs has $76 billion dollars burning a hole in his black mock turtleneck. Apple's value has skyrocketed more than 300 percent in the past couple years owing much to growing iPhone sales and the success of the iPad. But Apple's future success rides not just on product but on content -- specifically audio and video downloads and paid streaming content.

Following pressure from several groups including a change.org petition launched by Ms. Magazine, the California Milk Processor Board's latest campaign website EverythingIDoIsWrong.org morphed into GotDiscussion.com where the The Milk Board, operated by the California Department of Food and Agriculture and best known for the "got milk?" campaign, posted a quasi-apology (aka "sorry to the few humorless idiots we offended") on Thursday.

To the relief of absolutely no one, The U.S. Metro Wealth Index today revealed that a quarter-million Angelenos are bloody rich, an increase of nearly 9 percent over 2009.

A man who was apparently booted from a Hacienda Heights bar for being too drunk, walked out of the bar and into his car. He then proceeded crash into the front of the building. The apparently intoxicated man was kicked out of the Sunset Room around midnight Tuesday night when karaoke was in full swing with about 80 patrons in the house.

We can be certain the center would greatly benefit AEG, as it would serve as a great incentive and standing advertisement to its hundreds of overpriced condos and rental units in the area. But what is the benefit to taxpayers?

Behind every media mogul is an even stronger baronness. Meet Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch's third and current wife. Earlier Tuesday she took down an attacker who snuck up behind her husband and stuffed a plate of shaving cream in his face during the hearing.

At least six guests at Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas' City Center contracted Legionnaires' disease over the past couple weeks. Legionnaires' is a form of pneumonia that may be deadly in 5 to 30 percent of cases, says the Centers for Disease Control.

Pending Gov. Jerry Brown's signature, California's vote in the 2012 presidential primary will move from February to June, meaning we'll only have to get to the polls twice next year instead of three times. The state senate voted 34-3 on Thursday to move the date to June and consolidate the presidential primary election with the state primary vote,

A trio of Santa Barbara organizations has teamed up to launch a balloon into near space this weekend, just for kicks. Santa Barbara's Natural History Museum, Amateur Radio Club and Hackerspace have partnered to launch a high-altitude weather balloon to 100,000 feet on Saturday.

The centerpiece of Barnsdall Art Park, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House, may soon be a United Nations World Heritage site. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar nominated the Hollyhock House, along with eleven other Frank Lloyd Wright-designed landmarks, to receive the UNESCO World Heritage designation.

Good luck sleeping tonight. Because tomorrow morning you'll wake up with a brand new set of ears. Spotify, the online music service that has taken Europe by storm and is set on turning iTunes into merely the bloatware you sync your iPhone with is finally cleared for landing in the U.S.

70-year-old Joseph Robert Brancato was charged with murder in Pasadena Superior Court on Friday. He was arrested early Tuesday morning at his home after police found his 65-year-old wife Marie bleeding profusely from the back of her head, according to the Burbank Leader.