Can a handful of people dictate the path of a fictional stock market? We talk to a few of those who tried. By Cassandra Khaw. Published 4 days ago “Is there any way we could destroy a stock that is currently up, just to bring it way up again?” You can almost see it. A dimly lit room threaded with…

Detroit — Kwame Kilpatrick has been sentenced to serve 28 years in prison for crimes of racketeering and conspiracy committed during his six years as the mayor of Detroit. That sentence was handed down Thursday afternoon in federal court by Judge Nancy Edmunds. Edmunds said she was required to issue…

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The Big Chill: Souls of Mischief's 93 'til Infinity The mid-90s saw the release of an incredible number of important hip-hop albums—Rolling on Dubs revisits one of these records each month, around their 20th anniversary, and retraces the past through a contemporary vantage point. by Contributor…

Root for the Villain by Rob Cockcroft / 30.01.2012 A couple of years ago Queen’s rapper/producer J-Zone’s 2002 release “Pimps don’t pay taxes” became the soundtrack to my life. Complete with stories of failed attempts at macking, cock blockers and dissing judgemental headwrap chicks, who were all…

The 9-to-5 shit just didn’t work by Rob Cockcroft / 01.10.2013 J-Zones brand of self-deprecating comedic rap may not have led him to commercial success but his razor-sharp wit and skill for producing thickly layered boom-bap beats definitely left a mark. From the late 90s into the early 2000s, the…

524d9d8dbe88c17bd7000209-1380822326 The late Tom Clancy became famous as a writer of military thrillers with his first novel, "The Hunt for Red October" --later made into a movie starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin --and went on to write many more bestselling books about Cold War espionage, the…