Howard Stern Takes Top Rave Award as WIRED Renegade

Howard Stern Takes Top Rave Award as WIRED Renegade

From Architects to Entertainers, Scientists to Bloggers, WIRED Magazine Honors the Visionaries Who Are Changing the World

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- WIRED Magazine, long the barometer for what's next in culture, technology and industry, today announced the winners of its sixth annual WIRED Rave Awards, which recognize and celebrate "The People Changing Your Mind" in 14 categories. This year's top Rave award, "WIRED Renegade," goes to Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed "King of All Media." Stern's battle with the FCC and upcoming move to Sirius Satellite Radio is reshaping the future of radio as we know it.

Winner of the newest Rave category, "Blogger," is Kevin Sites, who is being honored for pioneering a new form of journalism while reporting from the front lines of the war in Iraq and the tsunami rescue effort in Southeast Asia. Brad Bird, director of the Oscar-nominated movie "The Incredibles," picks up the Rave Award in the "Film" category for his work on the groundbreaking Pixar film. Burt Rutan, who pioneered sub-orbital flight and a future for commercial travel, wins a Rave not only for defying gravity but for his amazing industrial design of SpaceShipOne.

"This year's Rave Award winners are inventive, rebellious, courageous, and they're changing the world," said Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine. "They're the mavericks, visionaries, and dreamers who inspire us as they transform our culture."

The Rave Awards honor the mavericks and dreamers among us who are reinventing everything from television, film and music, to medicine, architecture, books, blogs, and business.

The WIRED Rave Award Winners

-- Architect: Rem Koolhaas, Seattle Central Library, Seattle; Netherlands Embassy, Berlin; Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal (OMA)

-- Artist: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Soft Rains
-- Author: Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence
-- Blogger: Kevin Sites, Kevinsites.net


-- Business Leader: Shigeyuki Hori, Executive Chief Engineer for Prius, Toyota

-- Film Director: Brad Bird, The Incredibles
-- Game Designer: Pete Parsons and Bungie Studios, Halo 2
-- Industrial Designer: Burt Rutan, SpaceShipOne (Scaled Composites)


-- Medical Scientist: Robert Lanza, Cell Biology, Advanced Cell Technology

-- Musician: Danger Mouse, The Grey Album
-- Scientist: Steven Squyres, Mars Exploration, Cornell University
-- Tech Innovator: Mark Fletcher, Bloglines
-- TV Creator: Blair Harrison, iFilm.com
-- WIRED Renegade: Howard Stern, The Howard Stern Radio Show

The complete list of nominees can be found at www.raveawards.com.



WIRED Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson and WIRED Publisher Drew Schutte will honor the Rave Awards nominees and winners in all 14 categories at a gala event this evening at the Fillmore, San Francisco's legendary entertainment venue. The celebration will feature live musical performances by Rave winner Danger Mouse, as well as The Polyphonic Spree. All 2005 Rave Awards winners are featured in WIRED's March issue, on newsstands February 23.

Presenting sponsors of the WIRED Rave Awards are Land Rover, Adobe Systems Incorporated and Corazon Tequila.

Press Contacts: Devon McMahon
Zeno Group for WIRED
415-369-8110
devon.mcmahon@zenogroup.com


Source: WIRED

CONTACT: Devon McMahon of Zeno Group, +1-415-369-8110, or
devon.mcmahon@zenogroup.com, for WIRED

Web site: http://www.raveawards.com/

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