Access Hollywood featured a story on Jewel September 26th, mentioning that Tom Cruise asked her to perform at a benefit in his honor.

The sexy, blue, artistically stunning "You Were Meant For Me" video is out and in light rotation on VH1. Crossroads is a good place to catch it. MTV has began playing it after initially refusing. Here's a few stills. Her male co-star is Steve Poltz of the Rugburns. Thanks Sinjin!

The debut of the new single from Atlantic's Pieces of You was here online, Sep 9th. It's actually a remix and re-release of "You Were Meant For Me" which was released and quietly pulled in 1995. The new video is in light rotation to replace last year's seldom seen Sean Penn directed effort.

Jewel, with water in hand, in People Weekly from JFK Jr's elite Democratic Party in Chicago. Want more?

Jewel paid her first visit to Australia on a short promotional tour.

The 1996 VMA's were handed out Sep 4th. Jewel watched Alanis cash in on both of WWSYS's two nods. More here.

Jewel soothes late night Labor Day with "You Were Meant For Me" with Flea on bass on the Late Show.

Jewel, 's guest reporter on The Party Pitch was looking for family values at the Democratic Convention. The transcript.

Jewel did a brief online chat from the Democratic National Convention. Check out the complete transcript right here.

The Wizard of Oz In Concert CD is in the stores. Listen for Jewel's voice on 16 tracks. 100% of the profits go to the Children's Defense Fund.

"Hard wood grows slowly:" Jewel's debut Pieces of You went platinum in August in recorded sales. It went gold just this past May after being released February 28th, 1995.

The latest word on new music from Jewel is that the album is being pushed back to March of 1997. Atlantic was planning to release another single from Pieces of You, "Foolish Games."

The new release has several possible titles:
"Pink Fleshy Heart"
"Absence of Fear"
"Goldfish Don't Bounce"