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Articles tagged "jewel"NewsRock-a-bye baby… and Jewel fansby David Friedman [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][10.Feb.09] :. Departing from trends in favor of experimenting musically is nothing new for singer-songwriter Jewel. Her debut album, 1995’s “Pieces Of You,” was a folk record that came...  Music DVD ReviewJewel: Live at Humphrey’s by the Bay [DVD]by Brian James[19.Apr.04] :. Ever since Bruce Springsteen’s rise about a quarter century ago, authenticity in pop stars has become a fetish among consumers, and since the music business loves to give the public what it...  Music ReviewJewel: This Wayby Stephanie Dickison[12.Nov.01] :. You Don’t Know Her At All “Poetry is a passage into those parts of our being where we understand who we have been and where we discover and decide who and what we will be.”...  Film ReviewRide with the Devil (1999)by Todd R. RamlowRide with the Devil is essentially two films in one. The first is a story of loyalty - to family, community, and nation - tested in the social and political upheavals of civil war. The second is a story of male bonding and love in a homosocial order, the negotiation of male-male desire, and male domestication, all triangulated and enabled through the body of a woman. Film ReviewRide with the Devil (1999)by Cynthia FuchsRide With the Devil dares to bring yet another version. Directed by Ang Lee and written by Lee and his usual collaborator James Schamus (who adapted Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, a novel inspired, says the author, by today's warfare in the Balkans), the film is rather surprising, and not only because it stars Jewel as a Southern widow. Telling stories that don't usually get told, Ride With the Devil focuses on some of the War's more disgraceful and outrageous aspects, both personal and public.  Music ReviewJewel: Joy: A Holiday Collectionby PopMatters StaffA few of the songs on Jewel’s new Christmas offering, Joy: A Holiday Collection, are wonderful. Just like Jewel’s early work, they’re cute and fun. A few songs get an... |
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