It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.
The property boasts a two-bedroom guesthouse, a state-of-the-art movie theater with a pop-corn machine and a piano for silent film soundtracks, and an antique-panel covered office with soothing waterfalls.
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Obviously, that's the premiere feature of the new release, but the software has also been retooled to mesh more with the look and feel of the OS -- there's even a cover flow-like contact window -- and a new pop-out call control bar that can be moved anywhere on the screen or be kept open while in another program.
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The Ospreys backs were starting to click, though, and Andrew Bishop did a fair impression of more lauded team-mate Gavin Henson - rested for this match along with skipper Ryan Jones - with a sublime pop-pass.
No one involved in the creation of "Love Me Do" or "Dr. No" would have expected that either would be anything more than quick money spinners -- a throwaway two-minute pop song and a low-budget adaptation of a cheap paperback attempting to cash in on the Cold War appetite for espionage thrillers.
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Previous years have seen Cirque du Soleil-style acrobats hanging from the rafters of the library's basement, a 12-piece orchestra playing songs popular during Prohibition and five old-school barbers in a pop-up grooming shop to freshen up any scraggly-bearded gentlemen, gratis, on the spot.
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Her kinetic passion, her chatty-seatmate prose, and her detail-heckling made her a pop-culture oracle in an era that desperately needed one.
Users can type in Web addresses or e-mails with a stylus on a pop-up keyboard on the touch-screen.
The device includes a fixed micro-USB connector and a pop-out flexible cable to plug into your computer or another power source.
The pop-up practitioners in Manhattan today are more prosaic: during the summer Kellogg Company launched a pop-up in Times Square promoting, inevitably, Pop-Tarts.
James Stanley, a New York-based designer, says he recently did a pop-art-themed penthouse for a wealthy bachelor in Manhattan that has a flame-red living room with foosball and pool tables and a "Star Wars"-themed bedroom room.
Unlike many companies--and their investors--that enjoy a big one-day pop, Austin, Tex.
For example, an icon similar to the SSL encryption key-prevalent in e-commerce transactions-may pop up to indicate that a site matches a user's privacy tolerance level.
Anyone searching for the source code on file-sharing systems will see a pop-up message alerting them to the fact that downloading the code is illegal.
It's not all touchscreen, though -- several buttons (controlling a pop-up flash, power, zoom toggle, and shutter release) are also part of the somewhat bulky build.
While the climate and audio controls have been given a techy updating with peculiar, mini-donut-like rotary dials for climate and audio functions the navi display remains small, faraway and low-res, integrated into a pop-up panel atop the dash.
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On "Roman Reloaded, " the energy never flags -- it's the rare filler-free mega-pop album, an achievement for a record that stretches to 19 songs and 69 minutes.
Singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins offers a mix of folk-flavored pop songs in a special, midday concert from the World Cafe live stage in Philadelphia, Pa.
The EP's five tightly crafted pop songs can be sugary sweet, but subtle hints at psych-rock and noise-pop give the sound a rich flavor.
Mr Black said there could well be people - from foreign agents to home-grown lunatics - who might "want a pop at C" the name the head of MI6 is given (the director general of MI5 has not been known by the soubriquet "K" since the 1940s.).
Expect to see a barrage of new retail apps, mobile-only deals, and locally-inspired offers that pop-up on your device when you pass a favorite store.
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My co-founder, Paul, and I opened a pop-up store on Park Avenue to test the TripPhix business model.
Posing next to 24mm and 50mm lenses, the NEX-6 looks to be very much the in-between camera we suspected it was, without as much dedicated control as the NEX-7 but still carrying an electronic viewfinder, a pop-up flash and a dedicated function key near the shutter release.
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Coverage tends to split between a low-brow pop culture-based approach and a high-brow insidery perspective of politics (Politico does both).
For Ms. Watts, working at a store with a pop-star clientele could help kick-start her singing career.
The CD's hook-filled melodies and indie-pop arrangements will have a familiar appeal to adults.
Now a writer who rode along, enjoying unmatched access to the band, has produced a complex accounting of a pop-culture phenomenon.
Though still best known as an Oscar-nominated actress who's made films such as Good Will Hunting, GoldenEye and Grosse Point Blank, Minnie Driver continues to make inroads as a musician, developing a pop-folk style similar to that of Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.
That means when you click from an insecure tab in your browser to a secure one, the insecure site can wait until the user is on a trusted site and send a pop-up requesting the user download a plug-in.
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