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...have heard it through the grapevine: the heiress to the Motown legacy has done it again. With her latest album, 19-year-old Brit Joss Stone reminds us just why we liked the ’70s so much. Don’t let the album’s title mislead you. “Introducing Joss Stone” is in fact Stone’s third solo album. And it shows—Stone sounds more mature than she did on either of her previous releases. The album is ambitious; bringing soul back is a touch more difficult...
...Kong's profile as a financial town above all else, Tsang's election office is in a commercial tower, on the 28th floor. (Hong Kong people consider 28 to be an advantageous number because, in Cantonese, it sounds like "easy to prosper.") In case that isn't powerful enough joss, a large Chinese character written on gold paper stands above the reception counter; it's the word "luck...
...novel, narrated by a much solder Kate, unfolds through impressionistic episodes marked by wonder at exotic sights and sounds, from the "laundry strung on bamboo poles" and "rattan birdcages" to the smells of "dried oysters, clove hair oil, joss, [and] tiger balm" in the streets of Hong Kong. But politics are inescapable and an expatriate's distance increasingly difficult to retain. Their father, a photographer at TIME magazine assigned to cover the Vietnam War, has moved to Hong Kong from New York with the idea that, "Hong Kong would be safer than Saigon; an old-fashioned British enclave...
Others have a more romantic view of the vampiric appeal. "I think vampires are very dark, and women have a tendency to want to save them," says Feehan. After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon (who created the venerated Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper as bodice ripper. A fiftysomething grandmother from north of San Francisco, she has written 30 books since 1998 about the Carpathians, an undead race of mainly men, and their struggle to find undying love. Her books are not about lust, she says. "The appeal...
...Sporting a giant blond mohawk, a silver robe and platform boots, Stone took to his keyboards after a five-song medley tribute by John Legend, Joss Stone, Maroon 5, Will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. The singer ended his years of seclusion to lead his old band, the Family Stone, in a rendition of ?I Want to Take You Higher,? and then exited the stage abruptly after just a few verses. Sly?s head was bowed during the performance and he wore a cast on his right hand, but ?he?s healthy,? says his brother...