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...million deal certain to rock what remains of the record industry, Jay-Z has announced plans to depart Def Jam records and give the totality of his creative output - from songs to touring revenue to un-hatched entrepreneurial ideas - to concert promotion behemoth Live Nation. As Jay-Z told the New York Times, which broke the story on its website last night, "I've turned into the Rolling Stones...
...most of Live Nation's 30,000 nationwide events. That deal, which accounted for nearly $200 million in revenue in 2007, expires in 2008, and Live Nation's own ticketing system, already the third-largest in the United States, is prepared to ramp up. With top grossing pop (Madonna), rock (U2) and rap (Jay-Z) acts in its stable, the company certainly won't be short on inventory...
Drive a kilometer north of the remote northeastern Australian township of Laura, in the heart of Cape York's Quinkan country, and you'll come to a desolate track. Resist the urge to ignore it - it leads to one of the world's most celebrated rock-art sites. Scrawled across immense boulders and along cave walls are 30,000-year-old images of stick figures and animals such as crocodiles, snakes and tortoises, in shades of ocher. The prehistoric images were discovered in the 1960s by Percy Trezise, an artist and bush pilot. These days his son Steve, a painter...
UNESCO rates the "galleries" at Quinkan, where spirits are said to hide in the rock crevices and rise at night to roam the land, among the Top 10 in the world. That's reason enough for a visit, although the dramatic setting - a tranquil valley surrounded by sandstone escarpments - adds to the allure. It's hard to believe the Kuku Yalanji people, a tribe of hunter-gatherers, lived here right up until the late 19th century, their lives measured by the rhythm of rituals linked to puberty, manhood, marriage, birth and death. In 1873, gun-toting goldminers arrived...
...Hashem Bajwa, digital planning director at the San Francisco-based ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, itself part of a satirical moon-based ad campaign for Rolling Rock, notes the irony of this year's Google gag: "It's not a total disconnect from what Google does. So many people are asking, what will Google do next? If anyone would do it, it would be Google...