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Rent Movie Soundtrack Becomes Favorite for Kids Who Don't Get To See Chris Columbus' Broadway-to-Big Screen Film
Chris Columbus' new movie, Rent, starring Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thoms, is rated PG-13. While Tim and I did not hesitate to take our seven...
Are You Inspired To Become A British Citizen, Or Perhaps Dream About Being More Like The Brits?
For those of you who read Rugged Elegant Living on a regular basis, you may know that from time-to-time I draw my inspiration from the BBC. That's exactly how this story was brewed this morning. One of my favorite...
Yahoo! Presents Audio Files for Audiophiles
On August 4th 2005, Yahoo! introduced a new audio files search service for audiophiles. Basically, it is a meta site for music lovers and audiophiles of every sort, which offers links to mostly subscription-based music download services. These services...
Live 8 Again on MTV & VH1, Uninterrupted
If you're like the other 4 billion people who did not get to see the eight hours of Live 8 concerts aired on July 2nd, don't sweat. MTV is bringing it to the world again. And this time it's...
Live 8 Global Music Concerts: Who Was Inspired to Perform to the Beat of Fighting Poverty in Africa?
On Saturday, July 2nd 2005 an estimated 1 million people attended the ten Live 8 concerts in London's Hyde Park, Paris, Rome, Philadelphia, Barrie (near Toronto), Berlin, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Moscow and Eden Project. The one-day festival was organized worldwide by...
Move Over U2: The iPod Digital Music Player is The Apple of Queen Elizabeth's Eye & Ears
Queen Elizabeth II has turned to the Apple iPod for her listening pleasure. The seventy-nine year-old British Queen bought her 6 GB iPod Mini Silver for 169 pounds (currently $236.55 -- at the time of publication). Her pocket-sized digital...
Rugged Elegant People, Places & Products: The Most Searched Keywords Which Led People to 'Rugged Elegant Living' This Spring
For the past year, I've wanted to take the time to analyze at least two months worth of Rugged Elegant Living and RuggedElegance.com traffic data and share the most popular Google and Yahoo keyword search results with our global...
Carrie Underwood Is Our American Idol!
Rugged Elegant Living's Play-By-Play of American Idol Season IV Finale The Country Girl with Heart, Carrie Underwood was just one of 100,000 contestants when she auditioned with American Idol last summer. Now, after over 500 million votes she is...
Oprah Presents: American Idol's Simon Cowell, Cowell's Il Divo & Our Diva Joss Stone
After American Idol on Tuesday night, April 5th 2005, we watched Monday's Oprah Winfrey Show. Once again, as I always say, thank God for TiVo. American Idol judge Simon Cowell was Oprah's guest along with five budding world-class performers....
One American Family's Idol IV 2005 Favorites
During last weekend's road trip up to Lake Tahoe -- in our rented Ford Expedition (American Idol sponsors would be proud), we had a fun family conversation about our favorite Idol contestants in this fourth season. Five very different...
"Soul" Star-in-the-Making Joss Stone Replaces Sarah Jessica Parker "Sex" Star as Gap Spokesperson
The soulful British teenage sensation, Joss Stone -- who has brought the world Super Duper Love aka Diggin' On You -- has agreed to become a spokesperson for San Francisco-based clothier Gap. She will replace HBO's Sex and the...
Best Dressed, Most Rugged Elegant Men & Couples At The 47th Annual Grammy Awards
On Sunday, February 13th 2005, on Heineken's "Green Carpet" the world's top musical stars came out, many of whom were dressed to the nines. Here is Rugged Elegant Living's selections for the "Best Dressed Men & Couples" at the...
Best Dressed, Most Rugged Elegant Women at The 47th Annual Grammy Awards - February 13, 2005
Best Dressed Woman at the 2005 Grammys, Christina Milian While music was the focus of the Grammys on Sunday night, the dress of the celebrated and their dates is always a hot topic -- no matter which Hollywood "Red...
Queen Latifah Quarterbacks 47th Annual Grammys: A Play-By-Play of The 2005 Super Bowl of Music
On Sunday, February 13th 2005, The Grammy Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles introduced us to this year's "best performers." Since the telecast's inception in 1971, Pierre Cossette, who is now 80 years old, has produced every show, including the...
The 2005 Grammy Winners: All 107 47th Annual Award Recipients & Grammy Nominees
And the Grammy goes to... On Sunday, February 13th, ninety-three 2005 Grammy awards were handed out before CBS's telecast of the 47th annual awards ceremony. During the spectacular three-and-a-half-hour Grammys show, which starred many of the nominees including the...
Joss Stone Named Best British Urban Act & Best Female Artist at Brit Awards
Yes. Yes. Yes. Last night in London, soul singer Joss Stone of S-Curve Records was named Best British Urban Act and Best British Female Artist at the Brit Awards. Lisa Stansfield presented her with the award for Best British Female...
Booming Blogs! Web Log Traffic Is Up, But Are Bloggers Making Money?
Booming, Blooming Blogs! As reported in Rugged Elegant Living on Monday, according to a recent study by Mr. Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet & Family Life Project, those who went online in November for news, current events, unique...
Midge Ure and Bob Geldof Re-Release "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to Combat HIV & AIDS
Last month, 20 years after it last topped the charts, Midge Ure (singer with electro-pop pioneers Ultravox) and Sir Bob Geldof (Boy George) re-released their fundraising single Do They Know It's Christmas? Proceeds of Band Aid 20 go towards...
2005 GRAMMY Nominees: A Complete List of All The Nominated Musicians
Who is the world "diggin' on" this year -- to quote Best New Artist GRAMMY Nominee, Joss Stone? Besides Stone, count in Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Usher, the late Ray Charles, Green Day, Brian Wilson, Anita Baker, Norah Jones,...
Jazz Artist, Jamie Cullum Should Be in Everyone's 2004 Christmas Stocking
U.K. Jazz artist, Jamie Cullum is making strides in America. This holiday season anyone who loves jazz should find one of his CDs in their Christmas stocking. Those of you who have never heard of British jazz artist, pianist,...
Happy Birthday Wynton Marsalis & The New Rose Jazz Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City!
If I could snap my fingers and be in one place tonight it would be my birthplace, New York City. I'd be at the Frederick P. Rose Jazz Hall inaugural celebration, six blocks south of Lincoln Center to be...
Amy Grant Releases "Greatest Hits 1986-2004" CD & Video
Today, Amy Grant's new CD hits your sound waves. It is called Amy Grant ... Greatest Hits 1986-2004. Expect to hear not only her greatest hits from the past eighteen years but two new recordings. Her two new tracks...
Everyone Has Heard of Google, But Have You Heard About Google News Alerts?
Every work day morning, after I've had my Tahitian Noni Juice, I go to the front door where I find four newspapers waiting at my doorstep: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and...
Virgin Digital Online Music Store Is Open For Business!
Virgin is all over the map. Yesterday morning, Sir Richard Branson introduced to the world that he was ready to make astronauts of us all by 2007. Then, yesterday afternoon, Branson's LA California group, announced that all Americans who...
Joss Stone Gets It "Wright" Again with Her New CD Release Mind, Body & Soul
Just over a year ago, our friend George introduced us to Joss Stone, a then sixteen year-old soul singing sensation, who had teamed with Betty Wright and other soul legends, to produce her debut album, The Soul Sessions. On Tuesday,...
BOSE Announces A New New Wave Radio / CD II Player
Today, Bose made available to the public a new Wave Music System that features updated speaker technology. The Bose Wave music system incorporates new waveguide speaker technology to reproduce one-half octave lower musical notes without increasing the system's size....
American Idol Phenomenon from the U.K. to the U.S.
American Idol Executive Producers Nigel Lythgoe, left, and Ken Warwick American Idol: The Phenomenon gave us one more reason this week to gather around the television as a family. While we were busy on Sunday playing golf, going to...
VH1 Divas Concert "Saves The Music" with Stars Patti LaBelle, Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Harry, Joss Stone, Tom Jones & The Pussycat Dolls
The VH1 "Divas 2004" opened at the MGM Grand this evening with Patti LaBelle, Jessica Simpson and Cyndi Lauper singing LaBelle's sexy seventies song Lady Marmalade. Cyndi Lauper, Photo Credit: John Shearer/vh1.com Highlights of VH1 Divas 2004 Concert Dressed in...
VH1 Divas 2004: iTunes Play List For Your iPod
Here's a list of songs from tonight's VH1 Divas 2004 spectacular. Follow each link to sample and/or buy tracks from tonight's performance. Lady Marmalade, Patti LaBelle Stay, Cyndi Lauper Fell In Love With A Boy, Joss Stone Time After...
Divas Line Up for TV Special in Vegas from LaBelle to Lauper, Ashanti to Knight, Simpson to Newcomer, Joss Stone
Gladys Knight Don't miss the televised VH1 Divas special tomorrow night starring Patti LaBelle, Cyndi Lauper, Ashanti, Eve, Deborah Harry, Glady Knight, Jessica Simpson, and seventeen year-old newcomer, Joss Stone. When you hear Stone's voice you'll know why she...
Quincy Jones to Produce Kids-Inspired Celebrity Charity Concert in Rome called We Are the Future
Quincy Jones displays yet another heroic act on May 16th where he will launch an all-star celebrity concert to help children around the globe. While his first contribution of We Are the World achieved huge success, his current multi-concert We...
Joss Stone UK January - Early Feb 2004 Tour Dates
If you live in England, please go to one of the four upcoming Joss Stone Concerts, so I can live vicariously through you. While Stone's February 4th concert at Scala in London is sold out, you can still get...
A Selection of The Most Inspirational People of 2003
by Rugged Elegance, LLC Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel, who died on December 1. Jim Fassel, the former football coach of the New York Giants who was reunited with his birth parents thirty-four years...
Hayley Westenra: The Voice of an Angel Takes Flight
Hayley Westenra New York Times: Hayley Westenra is the stuff of dreams for record companies gloomy over falling sales of classical music. A bright-eyed 16-year-old with an angelic voice, she is close enough to womanhood to secure ample coverage...
Diggin' On Joss Stone
BlackVoices.com Do you have to be Black to possess that elusive quality known as "soul"? R&B veteran Betty Wright, of "Clean Up Woman" fame, doesn't think so. Neither do we! Wednesday was my birthday and our anniversary, so we...
The New Face of Soul: 16, Blond and British
New York Times: People always think I'm some 50-year-old black woman, "the singer Joss Stone said recently. This, of course, would not be worth noting if Ms. Stone were anywhere near 50 or anywhere near black. But with her...
Miami Stars of Soul Pass Their Torch
New York Times: It took a 16-year-old English girl to bring together Miami's soul-music aristocracy for shows on Wednesday night at Joe's Pub. The girl is Joss Stone, a singer and protégée of Betty Wright, who had the 1971...
New Music: Joss Stone
Every once in awhile, you hear a voice that sends shivers down your spine. That was the case yesterday, when my friend George picked me up to go attend training to become volunteer assistant referees for our daugthers' soccer...
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