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...head of Microsoft's Interactive Media Division, Stonesifer, 40, is defining what may be the most important step in Microsoft's future: venturing beyond software for PCs into content for all media, including cd-roms, cable TV and the Internet. "We want to be the premier provider of interactive products," she says. With a $500 million 1996 budget, Stonesifer is in a position to change how millions of Americans get their news and entertainment. She has become, for Microsoft's growing ranks of media partners (a collection that ranges from nbc to Julia Child), an indispensable new-media problem solver...
Roberts has recorded formidable material before--on his 1991 CD, Three Giants, he covered works by Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. But on Portraits in Blue he takes on his biggest musical challenge by remaking material that is even more familiar and sacrosanct to many listeners. Says Roberts: "Rhapsody in Blue is a piece everyone knows, so the changes you hear, if done right, can give you some idea of the power of jazz music. I wanted to try and bring the piece up to date without sacrificing its basic nature and personality." Because Rhapsody in Blue...
...scathingly worthwhile. Her earlier albums, which featured songs with only her voice and a scratchy acoustic guitar, had a sort of subterranean urgency, like that of a subway performer rushing to finish a song and earn a few quarters before the train roars into the station. DiFranco's new CD, Dilate, is her best yet--her vocals and guitar work still seethe, but she's added atmospheric touches, such as a trippy hip-hop beat on a cover of the song Amazing Grace. Like Beck, the singer-songwriter whose single Loser was a surprise best seller two years...
Seal's show was not only a high point in his career and for Unplugged, it was also a noteworthy moment for today's pop. The sound of folk is making a comeback, from the resurgent Tracy Chapman's unexpected Top 10 CD, New Beginning, to the folk-punk punch of Ani DiFranco. In his Unplugged set, the musically eclectic Seal (according to him, his favorite albums right now include Stereolab's involving art-pop CD, Emperor Tomato Ketchup; D*Note's politically aware dance album, Criminal Justice; and Henryk Gorecki's avant-garde classical CD, Symphony No. 3) managed...
Subject: the assassination of President Kennedy. Speaker: William Colby. Just days before his fatal canoe accident, the former CIA director gave one of his last interviews to the CD-ROM magazine Blender. The June/July issue offers a grainy video, recorded at a sidewalk cafe in Washington, in which Colby ruminates on Oswald-as-commie-spy stories, bullet trajectories and JFK director Oliver Stone. Colby's conclusion: "You have to look at [the assassination] suspiciously," but there's no definitive proof anyone but Oswald was involved. Afterward, Blender reporter James Gordon Meek thanks Colby for his candor: "You talk about...