Singer/songwriter Jewel has a new memoir titled Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story, and a new album called Picking Up the Pieces. A run-down bar in rural Alaska isn't any place for a kid. But ...

Jewel has been open about her upbringing in Alaska. At times she used an outhouse for a bathroom, and her family was homeless at times. She was a musician from a young age, and some of her earliest ...

On a recent Monday night at a Los Angeles karaoke bar, a meek-looking woman in a business suit and glasses was coaxed on stage by her co-workers. While the boozy crowd readied itself for four minutes ...

The Jewel Sazerac made with bonded rye, Tobacol rancio sec, Peychaud's Bitters and Herbsaint Legendre. (All photos by Todd A. Price, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Bartender Chris Hannah, who recently ...

The singer's life has played out like a country song: leaving an abusive father, living in a car, barely scraping by. Her big break came, of all... In Lumberjack Bars And Coffee Shops, Jewel Found Her ...

As part of a series called My Big Break, All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click, and people leap forward into their ...