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Piano pop-rocker Ben Folds will be rocking Chicago's Apple Store at 3 p.m. in a special performance to help promote his new LP Way To Normal. Folds will be performing a 30-minute set followed by a 30-minute signing opportunity for fans. If you want to get in, you'd better start lining up now.

Prepare yourselves for the first big indie nerdgasm of '08, coming up Tuesday: Michel Gondry (that's one) will be at the Apple Store (that's two) discussing his upcoming film (three), about video-store clerks (four) played by Jack Black and Mos Def (five), who accidentally erase but then remake the videos they rent out (aaaand new pants).

Earlier this week, accompanied by armed guards, and carefully escorted onto American soil, the first shipment of iPhones began to arrive. The creator of the ubiqitous iPod, has the PR buzz (or Reality Distortion Field) in full effect, and we can't remember so many people ever caring so much about a cell phone. No one really got excited about the new Blackberry (even if they are promoted by John Mayer), and when an updated TREO...

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending...

The latest in a string of new gadget peddlers will be making themselves a new home on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

The most recent update to the Chicago neighborhood map has upset realtors, developers, and the CPS because it says "Home is Where the Hood Is." 185 Chicago schools will be restructured after being branded as "chronic failures" by the federal No Child Left Behind law. Nokia announces it's gonna open a store on Michigan Avenue, so now Motorola is busting its ass to open a store sooner, and just a block away from where...

pretty damn sleek and useful, especially when it comes to filmmaking.

Calling all Macophiles! Tomorrow night beginning at 6 p.m., stop in at the W Hotel on Adams St. for iTunes Days. iPod DJ Chris Walsh will be playing music, there will be free AppleiTinis, you'll have a chance to win iPods and iMacs, and you'll get a CD filled with free iTunes music downloads (while they last!). If you can't make it tomorrow, the W will be doing this once a month all summer long, so stop in another time!