The Rolling Stones: Harlem Shuffle

Nina Simone, Brolin, I.B.E. and more in the first installment of our weekly music recap previously aired on Twitter

Thursday, 21 February 2012 would have been the inimitable Nina Simone’s 80th birthday. Here she is performing Ain’t Got No, I Got Life—a hit she developed for the musical Hair—at an outdoor concert in Harlem in the summer of ’69, a series she headlined along with B.B. King, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder and more, which became commonly known as “Black Woodstock.”

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Artificial retinas, a 3D-printing pen and #ifihadglass in our look at the web this week

1. #ifihadglass Glass, Google’s augmented reality eyewear device, is nearly ready for prime time and we had a chance to demo it this week; The Verge is just as excited about it as we are. The next phase of rollout invites people from all walks of life to apply for early purchase by “using Google+ or Twitter, tell us what you would do if you …

CH Luminaries

Oscar Niemeyer, Aaron Swartz, Helen Gurley Brown and more in our tribute to the pioneering figures that we lost in the last year

In a nod to the tradition propagated by the Oscars, we decided to take time to acknowledge the most influential figures in our sphere that have passed away in the last year. While this list is in no way exhaustive—from music to art and design and more, the world lost an immense amount of talent this past year—the 12 luminaries featured here strike a particular …