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Beyoncé in Paris. Springsteen in Ferrara. How far will fans travel to see their favorite performers, and how much will they spend to do it?
"The international art market has only recently woken up to this category," says one expert—and sellers are increasingly targeting it as well.
For a company that relies mainly on referrals rather than marketing, it’s a good sign when demand has grown so much that you need to expand your team. That’s the situation for Venables Pest Management, a Tumwater business whose glowing referrals each month have attracted enough business that increasing their staff is essential.
The must-have item for the super-rich is not a mega-yacht or sports car, but a dinosaur: the bigger and fiercer the better. Richard Askwith reports
Measuring 12.8 feet (3.9 m) high and 38.1 feet (11.6 m) long, the T. Rex skeleton that was sold at an auction in Switzerland yesterday is made up of 293 bones from three different dinosaurs.