● Apple (South Beach) - Hollywood transplant hits the beach with gob smacking good seafood, and yummy sips.

Apparently not named after Chris and Gwynnie’s offspring, Apple takes on the overamped West Hollywood scene with a curious mix of haute eats and flash nightlife. Chef Bryan Ogden has flown his Michelin star over from La’ Vega’, and the sleek but restrained interior of this buzzed-about new restaurant keeps the focus on his avant-contemporary American creations. Geographically ambitious, selections range all the way from pan-roasted Florida frog legs to Northern Cali porcini tartlet. The already mega-fabulous lounge, helmed by NYC nightlife moppet Allison Melnick, will feature its own daily selection of tartlets, as evidenced by the opening bash’s impressive party-girl roll call: Lindsay Lohan, Samantha Ronson (who DJ’d), and Nicky Hilton, who designed the restaurant's uniforms (what can't she do???). Regular live entertainment will include Pussycat Doll Robin Antin’s cabaret act. Apple saucy!

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It's not just the new iPhone 3G getting spiffed up -- MacBook users are growing bored with the looks of their slate-gray steely composite laptops and gravitating towards more eye-popping covers, namely by Paul Smith and Scott Campbell's Mama Tried Studios in Brooklyn. The Smith design looks like something I'd use to wrap gifts for my nephews -- dull and uninspiring. Campbell's work, on the other hand, is outrageously beautiful, teetering between tattoo artistry and Marin County psychedelia. What's more, he makes T-shirts, chairs, tables and prints. Check them out. The pistol-motif table no doubt provides nice perch to rest your boots, play Texas Hold 'Em and shoot whiskey (or just a fast game of backgammon over gin drinks).

If Indian car manufacturer Tata Motors designs a super-small car on the cheap and calls it the Nano, can Apple sue? We'll find out soon enough. According to the website, the car's name denotes "high technology and small size," the same reasons we're guessing Team Jobs christened their pint-sized iPod the exact same thing, several years before. The Tata Nano is dubbed "The People's Car," probably because it'll sell for $2,500 a pop, making it the cheapest car (relatively speaking) ever sold. Since "Mini" is already taken, and since the word "Nano" already denotes a tiny iPod, perhaps Tata should've gone with "Micro," or better yet, the "Zune."