What about nature? . . . Live life to the fullest!

Outside magazine:
Every issue of Outside brings you entertaining destination guides to help you find hidden escapes and plan special trips, reviews of the best outdoor and sports gear, the latest fitness and nutrition news to get you in the best shape of your life and much more. Make plans for great trips. Experience thrills you've never imagined. Discover the best adventure tours in the world. Enjoy armchair escapades. Understand important environmental issues. Spend money wisely on outdoor gear. Read about mountain climbing, kayaking, helicopter skiing and so much more! Only Outside puts you in the center of all the action! Outside is a 2013 winner of the National Magazine award for General Excellence and is a 5 time winner of this prestigious honor. Outside magazine helps you live life to the fullest! 


OM first published in Sept 1977
Its founders were Jann Wenner (the first editor in chief), William Randolph Hearst III (its first managing editor), and Jack Ford (an assistant to founding publisher Donald Welsh and a son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford).

Outside launched the careers of Sebastian Junger, Jon Krakauer, and other freelance travel and adventure writers. Though the magazine has tilted toward a more commercial aesthetic in recent years, it has also recruited figures from the literary world for freelance assignments.

Writers whose work has appeared in Outside include Bruce Barcott, Tim Cahill, Daniel Coyle, E. Annie Proulx, naturalist and author David Quammen, and Bob Shacochis. Songwriter David Berkeley also worked for Outside.

Outside magazine: on a mission to inspire participation in the world outside through award-winning coverage of the sports, people, places, adventures, discoveries, environmental issues, health and fitness, gear and apparel, style and culture that define the active lifestyle.
Nowadays everything has a brand and marketing campaign. What about nature?
Maybe a dose of humor and the outdoors would be a good prescription.
Time for Mother Nature to get her own commercial.

This Is the Best Drug Commercial You'll Ever See
Set in the world of a spoofed prescription drug commercial, Nature Rx offers a hearty dose of laughs and the outdoors - two timeless prescriptions for whatever ails you. Side effects may include confidence, authenticity, remembering you have a body, and being in a good mood for no apparent reason. Nature RX is a grassroots movement dedicated to entertaining and informing people about the humorous and healing aspects of getting outdoors. Nature RX series aims to bring awareness; research show that spending more time in nature improves your health, well-being and leads to making better environmental decisions.  Learn more, and discover how to connect to nature and share the good.

'Saying Nothing Speaks Loud'—
The biggest Vogue of the year, the vaunted 2015 September issue (832 pages, four pounds, three ounces), is now on the stands. On its cover is arguably the biggest star of the moment, Beyoncé. (Chronology of Coverage).

Sept. 2015: Uncover the Biggest VOGUE of the Year!

Among celebrity profiles, Vogue is very nearly the holy grail. Submitting to a top-tier magazine profile means a peek behind the well-guarded curtain, a soul-baring interview plus a few hours gamely spent on publicist-arranged fun. For Vogue, they have fed elephants (Reese Witherspoon), browsed Birkins (Anne Hathaway), even wept, albeit over onions cut in a cooking class (Scarlett Johansson).

It is part of the bargain struck between celebrities and the news media, where face time and a few juicy first-person revelations are traded for a starring role.

But inside Vogue’s September issue, Beyoncé says not a word.

 “I woke up like this.”— Here come the suspense.


Flash To A View: Sydney Pollack's 'Amazing Grace';
The Tortured 4-Decade History of the Film Aretha Franklin Wants to Stop.

A documentary about Franklin's famous performance at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church that became the Grammy-winning live album Amazing Grace, the film has long suffered from technical and legal challenges. 

Many of those issues had seemed settled, and the long-awaited premiere of the film was one of the most anticipated releases of the Telluride festival. But after Franklin sought an injunction, a judge in Colorado said the singer should have the right to approve a film that presents her work and likeness. Full Article by Bill Chappell Via NPR: Aretha Franklin Blocks Premiere Of Concert Film 'Amazing Grace'

It is extremely rare for a festival to remove a film from its lineup after it has been announced. Ms. Franklin prevailed in an 11th-hour legal bid to stop the Telluride Film Festival from screening Sydney Pollack’s posthumous documentary “Amazing Grace”—

“Amazing Grace”:http://t.co/HecJsgT83n “A film that essentially recreates the entire concert experience is not fair use of this footage.”

— A Po'boy's Journey! (@Aboutpoboy) September 5, 2015

 Pollack's 'Amazing Grace' in its original form; Franklin, "loves" the movie.

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Hot Topics of 2015? 'Caitlyn's Courage', 'Two Camps in Hollywood'—

There are two camps in Hollywood right now:
The Skins (who show way too much) and the Prims (the serious actresses who show almost nothing) as attention vs. acclaim duke it out through clothing: "A dying career can be resuscitated by sexuality, but a live one can get murdered by it." And perhaps the hottest topic of the year— Caitlyn: 'Deserves an ESPY' or 'Just A Crass exploitation play.' Media and Magazine cover concepts makes it clear: The flame is on!

Yes, sex still sells. In Hollywood, a cultural divide has split the red carpet, with celebrities who could be considered "Skins" on one side and, on the other, "Prims." The Skins are the stars who pose and expose (parts of) themselves, from Gwyneth Paltrow to Kates Hudson and Beckinsale, hyping sex and body image at premieres, events and awards shows. Forget #AskHerMore — #ShowThemMore is what Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian had in mind when they wore strategically placed sequins (and little else) to the Met Ball; Beyonce even changed her dress en route when she clocked the revealing red-carpet photos of her Skin-sational peers. As for the Prims: These are the covered-up, even modest, generally younger actresses, including Emmas Watson and Stone, who are playing for awards gold — which comes with a lower (i.e., more prestigious) payday. (The velvet- and Victoriana-reviving fall 2015 collections of Givenchy, Lanvin, Chanel, Oscar de la Renta and Valentino seem to be on the side of propriety and these Prim Young Things.) STYLE NEWS by Merle Ginsberg via THR/ Billboard

Read about the latest in Hollywood and entertainment news from The Hollywood Reporter,  a multiplatform American media brand founded in 1930. @THR focusing on the source for detailed movie reviews, celebrity styles, fashion and industry. This mag's format covers much more such as finance, lifestyle, technology, law and politics.

The Hollywood Reporter is one of the two major publications (based on market size) focused on Hollywood, the other being Variety. Both publications have expanded to cover what is more broadly called the entertainment industry. 

Caitlyn's Courage: Finally “Free”
One of the greatest human athlete of our time told the world that she is transgender.
 Introducing Caitlyn Jenner

Speaking publicly for the first time since completing gender transition, Caitlyn Jenner compares her emotional two-day photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz for the July cover of Vanity Fair to winning the gold medal for the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics. She tells Pulitzer Prize–winning V.F. contributing editor and author of Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger, “That was a good day, but the last couple of days were better. . . .

This shoot was about my life and who I am as a person. It’s not about the fanfare, it’s not about people cheering in the stadium, it’s not about going down the street and everybody giving you ‘that a boy, Bruce,’ pat on the back, O.K. This is about your life.”

Vanity Fair’s 22-page cover story features stunning Annie Leibovitz photos of Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, along with revealing new details. A preview of the story.— VANITY FAIR

Via a statement, ESPN— "Sometimes courage is demonstrated over the course of a lifetime and sometimes it is demonstrated in a single act that shines a light on an important contemporary issue."

It took Caitlyn's entire life to harness enough strength, enough bravery, to stand up and say this. In my opinion, she's more than just a little bit of progress, and she deserves to be seen and heard. “I for one can't wait to hear her acceptance speech when she gets her ESPY.” — Sandra Carreon-John


 Flash to a View: “I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.”— B.B. King
In performances, his singing and his solos flowed into each other as he wrung notes from the neck of his guitar, vibrating his hand as if it were wounded, his face a mask of suffering. Many of the songs he sang — like his biggest hit, “The Thrill Is Gone” (“I’ll still live on/But so lonely I’ll be”) — were poems of pain and perseverance.
 
Mr. King helped expand the audience for the blues through “the urbanity of his playing, the absorption of a multiplicity of influences, not simply from the blues, along with a graciousness of manner and willingness to adapt to new audiences and give them something they were able to respond to.” Mr. B.B. King passed at age 89— A Defining Bluesman for Generations.— Full Article   by TIM WEINER Via NYT

With a few words of encouragement.— B. B. stood for Blues Boy


 Who Rewrote the Language of Jazz?
Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, passed away on June 11, 2015.

Ornette Coleman was more voluble and theoretical than John Coltrane, the other great pathbreaker of that jazz era. He was a kind of musician-philosopher, whose interests reached well beyond jazz. He was seen as a native avant-gardist, personifying the American independent will as much as any artist of the last century.

If his words were sometimes oblique, his music was usually not. Very few listeners today would fail to understand the appeal of his early songs like “Una Muy Bonita” (bright, bouncy) and “Lonely Woman” (tragic, flamencoesque). His run of records for the Atlantic label near the beginning of his career — especially “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” “Change of the Century” and “This Is Our Music” — pushed through an initial wall of skepticism and even ridicule to be recognized as some of the greatest albums in jazz history.— Full Article by BEN RATLIFF Via NYT

 “I’ve learned that everyone has their own moveable C.” — Ornette Coleman

“Nothing exists that is not in the form of life, because life is eternal.” — Ornette Coleman http://t.co/zCegMD5jW1 pic.twitter.com/obYoiXzO1D

— A Po'boy's Journey! (@Aboutpoboy) June 12, 2015

 “Life is how the pass and future connect.”— It's A Flash To A View !

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April 2015: The "prettiest girl in the whole fucking world" hits Maxim's Cover;
When you've built a multimillion-dollar career out of wearing next to nothing, the question of just how much skin to reveal can come down to a few very strategic centimeters of fabric.

Full back? Yes. Microscopic bikini bottoms? Sure. Still, it's a game of inches, and something has to be left to the imagination.

For Lil Aldridge, 29, the "prettiest girl in the whole fucking world" (according to her husband, Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill) toeing that line between lust object and celebrity-power-brand-in-the-making is all part of the business plan.

Though she's been modeling since she was 14, Aldridge debuted as a Victoria's Secret model in 2009; she is now one of just eight Angels. She landed the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit's 50th anniversary issue last year. Add her cred in high-fashion circles — shoots in Vogue and a campaign for Michael Kors — and Aldridge has won the Triple Crown of modeling.
As you might expect from any other thoroughbred, she says her contracts are ironclad, stipulating precisely how much of her extraordinary physique she'll bare. "I'm very careful about it," she says. 潲Posted by Sarah Horne Grosse

Flash To A View Moment:
"American Pie" is a song by American folk rock singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was a number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972. In the UK, the single reached No. 2 on its original 1972 release and a reissue in 1991 reached No. 12. The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project Songs of the Century. Audio Sample— 

On April 7 2015, "American Pie" manuscript sold for $1.2m
“I would say to young songwriters who are starting out to immerse yourself in beautiful music and beautiful lyrics and think about every word you say in a song.” Don McLean, Feb 13, 2015.

“American Pie” manuscript sold for $1.2m

“For more than 40 years I have rambled around every state of the union and many, many countries of the world. My primary interests in life have been America, singing, songwriting, and the English language. I love the English language as much as anything in life and words really do mean something. I thought it would be interesting as I reach age 70 to release this work product on the song American Pie so that anyone who might be interested will learn that this song was not a parlor game. It was an indescribable photograph of America that I tried to capture in words and music and then was fortunate enough through the help of others to make a successful recording.”— Don McLean


 American Pie…Something touched me deep inside. The Don McLean Story.
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Words Without Music;
 ultimately, you have the power of music to change the world.

Shape Magazine helps women develop a healthy lifestyle to last a lifetime;

Upbeat, lively and truthful, Shape gives you instantly useful techniques to make exercise and fitness more varied and fun, helps you trim the fat, and keeps today's woman challenged and motivated to look and feel her best. With each issue of Shape Magazine also comes great recipes, fashion tips, horoscopes, and beauty advice.


Sections within the magazine include Features & Cover Stories, Shape Your Life, Look Great, Live Healthy, Get Fit, Eat Right, You In Shape, and In Every Issue, which includes From the Editor’s Desk, Contributors, Readers Speak Out, The Hot List, and Fit & Famous. Every issue of Shape magazine includes the latest health, exercise, and nutrition news. Shape provides nutrition advice, as well as recipes. They provide new exercise routines and tips monthly.


Shape embraces a healthy lifestyle, which is represented through their cover models. Previous cover models include Ellen DeGeneres, Kelly Osbourne and Jillian Michaels. The “Up Close With” section provides an interview with the cover model and they provide their advice on how to live a healthy lifestyle. 2015 January issue presents Jada Pinkett Smith, showing major skin for Shape magazine! The 43-year-old actress puts her amazing body on display for the magazine's cover. Inside, Pinkett Smith talks about her fitness motivation. It turns out, it's her husband, Will Smith!


At the back of the magazine there is the “Fit & Famous” section where Shape interviews a celebrity who provides more tips on how to lead a more long, happy and confident life.


The “Readers Speak Out” and “You Asked” sections allow for Shape readers to make comments about previous issues and ask the contributors questions regarding fitness, nutrition and health. Shape contributors include medical doctors, registered dieticians, personal trainers, and other professional (PhD). Cynthia Sass, M.P.H., R.D. is a contributing editor who provides Shape’s nutritional advice. Doctor Oz, M.D. has previously provided contributions to the magazine as well. There are various other contributors depending on the topic/specialty.


The “Success Stories” section provides diet and exercise tips that have worked for other readers during their weight loss experience. Furthermore, the “Weight Loss Diary” section follows an average woman on her weight loss journey. In combination, these two sections provide real life tips that work for different body and lifestyle types to readers who are also on their weight loss journey. Other topics include sex, mind/spirit, beauty, travel, fashion, work, home and style.

Cosmopolitan 

The best-selling young women's magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine helps women achieve their personal and professional goals. Each issue offers advice on interpersonal relationships, fashion and beauty tips, insights into the working world for women, information on eating healthy and exercising right, and articles on how to balance a busy schedule and reduce stress. Cosmo's credo is to help young, ambitious, and fearless women get the most out of their lives.

Marc Jacobs has released his spring/summer 2015 campaign yesterday, confirming a lineup of nine lucky models: a mix of well-established names like Karlie Kloss and Joan Smalls and fresh faces like Kendall Jenner (pictured above). It's Kendall's first campaign for the label, and only her second major campaign period — though it's her third time working with Marc Jacobs, having walked in his last two runway shows. As with many of her gigs, Kendall will likely be sending some thanks and flowers to stylist Katie Grand, her fashion fairy godmother/stunt queen, who served as the shoot's editor.

Still though, that wig.  You win some, you lose some.

Article by Alex Rees

How JPS Stays Fit?:
Find out how the actress maintains her tight, toned body—plus, how she keeps the romance alive with Will after 18 years of marriage.

Jada Pinkett Smith may be tiny (she clocks in at just 5 feet and weighs 108 pounds), but the actress claims to never actually feel petite—an attribute that helps her command presence in her role as a kick-ass Mob boss on Gotham. Read Full Article
As for her fitness motivation? "Well, I love when Will looks at me and says, 'You look so freaking good!' When my husband of almost 20 years can't take his eyes off of me? That's amazing.”

Flash 2A View Moment:
Frankie Goes to Hollywood;


On the back of an enormous publicity campaign, Frankie Goes to Hollywood dominated British music in 1984. Frankie's dance-pop borrowed heavily from the then-current Hi-NRG movement, adding a slick pop sensibility and production. What really distinguished the group was not their music, but their marketing campaign. With a series of slogans, T-shirts, and homoerotic videos, the band caused enormous controversy in England and managed to create some sensations in the United States. However, the Frankie sensation was finished as soon as it was started; by the release of their second album, Liverpool, in 1986, the group's audience had virtually disappeared.


 On this day in music, provides information on musicians who where born on this day, like recordings, gigs, deaths, chart positions and significant events.

Remember; the world is yours, 
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney

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