When it was announced that Apple was acquiring Beats for $3 Billion, the hip hop blogosphere exploded with talks of Dre being hip hop’s first billionaire. Being the nerd that I am and having followed the acquisitions of tech companies like Instagram and Whatsapp, I understood that there were finer financial intricacies at play than…
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The Vieuxtemps Guarneri is a violin that is older than the United States of America — 273 years old, to be exact. It recently became the most expensive violin in the world, selling for an estimated $16 million. Its new owner anonymously donated the historic instrument to violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, on loan for the…
Dennis Morris‘ career is the stuff of Almost Famous lore. The London-born photographer was at the onset of his teenage years when Bob Marley invited him onto a tour bus with himself the Wailers, thereby catalyzing an iconic path that has seen his work immortalized in Rolling Stone, TIME, and People. As a chief chronicler…