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Ginuwine Discusses His Strained Relationship With Aaliyah

During his recent interview with Drink Champs, Ginuwine discussed his difficult relationship with the late Aaliyah. He revealed that the "beef" between them revolved mostly around the singer's family, claiming that he sadly never got the opportunity to set things straight with her before she died. “We were all a family," he told the host, "Missy [Elliot], Timbaland, her [Aaliyah], myself, Magoo, Playa, Tweet." He explained that "all of [them] had a close-knit bond before tensions between them began to rise.

Gucci is selling 'grass-stained' jeans for 600, and people have a lot to say

These 'grass-stained' jeans are being sold by Gucci for £600. Picture: Gucci By Alice Dear @According2Al The Gucci jeans from the Fall Winter 2020's 'grunge vibe' collection look just like your dad's gardening trousers. Designer brands often shock us with their extreme prices, whether it's £300 for a t-shirt, or over £10,000 for a handbag. But nothing has left the Internet as baffled as this pair of Gucci 'grass-stained' jeans.

Lost photographs of doomed Arctic explorers to be auctioned in pictures | Science

Lost photographs of doomed Arctic explorers to be auctioned – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Images taken in 1845 of Sir John Franklin and his crew on the ill-fated HMS Erebus and Terror – believed lost until recently – are to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London Main image: Daguerreotypes of crew from Franklin's deadly expedition to the Northwest Passage.

Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it

Ernie Haynes never imagined that taking care of his three grandsons after his daughter's drug overdose death would turn him into a felon at the hands of a longtime Ohio prosecutor known to sidestep the rules intended to protect a defendant's rights in criminal trials. A week after his daughter died in December 2017, the court granted temporary custody of the children to their biological father, a man Haynes said also struggled with drug addiction.

Ravel's 'Bolro:' A Product of Dementia?

No one would deny that the sometimes beloved, often reviled Boléro by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) is repetitive. The French composer himself criticized his most popular work as "a piece for orchestra, without music." Could Boléro have been a manifestation of Ravel's growing dementia? Originally commissioned in 1928 by ballet dancer Ida Rubinstein as a "choreographed poem," the 15-minute work is dominated by a repetitive, hypnotic rhythm. Weaving through these driving beats are two themes, passed around the different sections of the orchestra and each repeated eight times.