Forget resolutions. January is all about the wait. In most places, the landscape has performed its annual sad disrobing and is as bare and immobile as a patient sitting through a diagnosis. And though this mostly gray, mostly quiet month is always punctuated with a few great new releases, the music world also rests a bit. Spring… Read More An Under-The-Radar Albums Preview For 2013
As we get closer and closer to the official release of A$AP Rocky’s debut album, Love.Live.ASAP, the Life + Times presents their latest Decoded webisode. Rocky took his turn and carefully explained the lyrics behind the album’s intro. He drew inspiration from early No Limit and Cash Monery records for this track. Watch the clip, ASAP’s interview… Read More A$AP Rocky Breaks Down ‘Long.Live.ASAP’ Album Intro (Video)
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Beyoncé may have celebrated the first birthday of adorable daughter, Blue, but that doesn’t mean she’s not still Bootylicious. (photos by Terry Richardson). The 31-year-old told GQ Magazine: ‘I worked so hard during my childhood to meet this goal: by the time I was 30 years old, I could do…
Iman Shumpert unveiled this wildly bright colorway of the adidas Top Ten 2000 last season before going down with an injury against the Miami Heat. While adidas might be campaigning #thereturn with Derrick Rose, Knicks fans are anticipating a return of their future All-Star anytime now as well. Meanwhile, Shumpert’s bright orange retros will help… Read More PACKER SHOES X ADIDAS TOP TEN 2000 “2WO 1NE”
It seems like every year we witness a host of tech companies initiate million- and billion-dollar bids to snatch up their biggest competitors or the next major start-up. Predicting the aftermath of any corporate buyout is impossible. Some might have the potential to become success stories such as Apple’s acquisition of NeXT. Others are doomed to crash and… Read More The 15 Most Important Tech Acquisitions of All Time
In the most resounding referendum yet on the legacy of steroids in baseball, voters for the Hall of Fame emphatically rejected the candidacies of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens in balloting results announced on Wednesday. In their first year on the ballot, Bonds and Clemens, perhaps the most decorated hitter and pitcher in the game’s… Read More Bonds (and Everyone) Strikes Out
2012 was a great year for the Oprah Winfrey Network. OWN, which once suffered from low ratings and management shake-ups, reached double-digit gains and soared with 11 months of consecutive ratings growth. The 2013 season looks just as bright for OWN. Over the weekend, the network revealed six new original series to its lineup. The shows include Raising… Read More Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Adds Six New Original Series
The stereotypes about Africa/Africans are too many to list here. They’re mostly negative, myopic depictions that focus on war, famine, abject poverty, disease, and corruption. In other oversimplifications, Africans are written up as model immigrants, overachieving geniuses, or displaced chiefs moonlighting as gas station attendants. Outside of these caricatures, many Africans are going to work… Read More AFRICA BY THE AFRICANS: Young Tastemakers Aim to Challenge Stereotypes
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