This Beaded Fold-Over Clutch bag by Stella McCartney has a simple and classic shape mixed with fun details like an intricate mosaic-like beaded design and a colorful beaded tassel hanging off one end. Made with glass beads and satinised brass hardware, this bag only comes in the one color scheme but can still go with almost anything. It's also very versatile as far as easily dressing up for an evening party or dressing down for a casual afternoon -- not sure how much daily wear and tear it can take though, without risk of losing some beads. $1495

Stay in Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool and you may just relive a distant memory of a Beatles concert from long ago. With Lennon and McCartney suites available in the birthplace of one of rock 'n' roll's greatest icons, Liverpool is bound to attract even more Beatles fans than ever before. This new attraction is sure to help the town's transformation from commercial marketplace to cultural hot spot. The hotel will feature 110 rooms for $340 per night, with the suites running for $1,300 per night, a Yellow Submarine jukebox, a stylish, basement bar, and modern European restaurant-- and of course tons of Beatles paraphernalia and music to boot. It opened on the first of February and is sure to bring tourists and music lovers from miles around, for years to come.

When it comes to the rarest, most valuable record albums, there are a lot of dollar signs floating around. The real prices turn out to be a little more grounded, although the figures themselves are elusive.

For example, in 1999, news broke that Mark David Chapman's copy of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album Double Fantasy, autographed by Lennon five hours before Chapman fatally shot him, had been sold. The album had been found in a flower planter outside the Dakota apartment building, Lennon and Ono's home on Manhattan's Upper West Side and the scene of the Beatle's 1980 murder. The record bears the forensically certified fingerprints of Chapman, and was even used as evidence in the case against him (Chapman plead guilty to second-degree murder). Price tag? $460,000.

Or was it? I spoke with Gary Zimet of Moments in Time, the New York memorabilia dealer who brokered the sale of the Chapman album. Zimet told me that the $460,000 figure released in 1999 was for publicity purposes, and said the record was actually sold for $150,000. News reports several years later of the album's sale for as much as $525,000 are also in error; Zimet said a deal was in place in 2003, but it fell through. He did note though that the album's owner remains willing to part with it for around $600,000 (beware, though -- upon the purchase in 1999, the owner received a number of death threats).

But so far, the Chapman record has fetched only $150,000 (pocket change, right?). This changes the equation, in light of an eBay auction in 2006.