Jesse Aizenstat

In a world where nothing is done without first calculating the mean-old cost/benefit, there is a dude named Tommy Alexander who just does it for the love of it. This former college baseball player turned guitar-playing vagabond has started something of a gypsy record label, gathering the best...

In case you missed it the other week, the U.S. Justice Department filed suit against Apple and some of the "Big Six" publishers for conspiring to raise the price of e-books. Of course the Big Six are guilty. They're scared that online e-books sellers like Amazon and Barnes...

That's right, sports fans: Steve Jobs is helping me design my hardcover travel-adventure book, Surfing the Middle East. Well... while I'm reading his biography, that is.

And so, don't mistake this little blog entry as some comment on Newt Gingrich-style "open relationships," or how...

This wasn't your standard gathering of the nerds.

The LA AppShow was held last Wednesday at the Edmunds building in the Water Garden in Santa Monica, California. When I got there, I jammed into the glitzy underground parking garage and made small talk with a sexy brunette on the...

The resurrection of Newt Gingrich?

Have you noticed? The Tea Baggers really have a thing for this guy. Newt's simple, blast 'em all strategy, fits brilliantly into their tough guy ego. They respect that. And they want a candidate who will body-slam the Washington establishment and stick it to the...

May the pagan gods bless the New York Times -- because when I read "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body" this week, I enjoyed one of those fine belly laughs that only comes once in a great while.

The article, by William J. Broad, was laced with...

That Saturday night started alone, with the music up and the windows down, jamming my white Ford Bronco up the LA freeway to some club in Hollywood. The traffic was light and when I got there a small Korean man kept wailing about the angle of my vicious park job....