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 »

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 ...

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.

Theater review: A truly epic 'Odyssey' all over Angel Island

If you're going to a theatrical adaptation of 'The Odyssey,' Homer's 2,800-year-old epic poem, it seems fitting to have to board a boat. We Players' highly interactive theater piece on Angel Island State Park, involves a hike around the perimeter of the island that feels no less epic

The Slocum House ghost story gets airing on TV show

A Vancouver man who died years ago might still be showing up from time to time at a local landmark to knock things off shelves and generally creep people out.