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Published:Monday | September 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Here are some snapshots from the many events held over the past few days. ...

Published:Monday | September 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

After finishing studies at the University of the West Indies, expect to see Tara Wright flitting between social work and the runway.

Published:Monday | September 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The parent organisation of Manifesto Jamaica has been helping the organisation find its footing in the island. hough still in its infancy, Manifesto Jamaica has already made a bit more than just baby steps.Though the non-governmental organisation ...

Published:Monday | September 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Pulse supermodel Jeneil Williams hit yet another high note in her illustrious career when she copped the cover of the current issue of French, one of the most important magazines in fashion....

Published:Monday | September 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

It has been almost 10 years since singer Warrior King made a musical statement with the chart-topping song, Virtuous Woman. He survived the one-hit wonder tag through a strong follow-up, Never Go Where Pagans Go, but after a sustained lull is eyeing a return...

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

One of this year's Musgrave Award recipients, Jean Small, while appreciating her Bronze Musgrave, still questions the process.She said that, reflecting on the people who have received Musgrave awards previously, including Lorna...

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Many models have left Jamaica's shores in search of international success. Some achieve it; some stumble and fall along that walkway to stardom.

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

During a 1997 interview, Buju Banton credited 'Til Shiloh's fair showing in the United States (US) market to a "very strong dawta" named Lisa Cortes.Of the persons involved with that album, Cortes has gone on to the most success.She...

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

With a daughter, sister and close friends having had cancer, Delores Dickson found a way to help fight the disease by raising funds for cancer research.Dickson, who is currently staying at Hedonism II in Negril for the Miss...

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Though he has been a bass player for over 30 years, Glen Browne is best known for his distinctive acoustic guitar work on Untold Stories, one of the hit songs from Buju Banton's classic 1995 album 'Til Shiloh.

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

There will be more than one beauty queen in the Miss World competition this year who is proud of her Jamaican heritage.As the current Miss Jamaica World Chantal Raymond competes to become the island's fourth Miss World winner,...

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Big Youth's I Pray Thee, on the horns-rich rhythm to The Abyssinians Satta Massagana (recorded in 1969, included on their debut album in 1976 and covered notably by Third World on their self-named full-length debut, also in 1976), is an extended chant from the songbook of David, beginning with Psalms 2.

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Over the summer, Big Youth, through his Negus Nagast label, did a double album release in England: Hit The Road Jack and Natty Cultural Dread, put out together. The official proceedings took place at the Blackgrate Ballroom in West Green, North London, on August 21.

Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Drum and bass form the throbbing pulse of Jamaican popular music and, continuing their lockstep as studio musicians since the early 1960s, before The Skatalites was officially formed in June 1964, drummer Lloyd Knibb and bassist...

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Katy Perry's Sesame Street appearance has been axed because her boobs are too big. The pop beauty recently filmed an appearance on the long-running children's show in which she performs her song Hot 'N Cold with puppet Elmo in a low-cut dress.

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Taking his blowhard act to Congress, comedian Stephen Colbert has told United States lawmakers he does not want Mexicans picking his tomatoes. And he expressed befuddlement that more Americans were not clamouring to "begin an exciting career" in farm work.

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Katherine Jenkins was inspired to become a singer by her late dad. The Welsh classical music star believes her father Selwyn's passing from lung cancer when she was just 15 encouraged her to seize "every opportunity" in life and pursue her passion for music.

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Gwen Stefani has been immortalised in wax. The Hollaback Girl singer is the latest celebrity to be honoured with her own waxwork figure after legendary museum Madame Tussauds was inundated with requests for a model of Gwen to be made.

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Kelly Osbourne is "still not over" former fiancé Luke Worrall. The 25-year-old star - who called time on her relationship with the model in July after allegedly discovering he had cheated on her - claims she and Luke both knew they weren't happy in the relationship ...

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Dub visionary Augustus Pablo and lovers rock singer Gregory Isaacs are the subject of feature stories in Wax Poetics magazine's reggae issue, which was released September 21 in the United States.

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a 1950s pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to actresses Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died. He was 82.

Published:Saturday | September 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Saxophonist Wilton Gaynair, a key figure in the golden age of Jamaican jazz, will be honoured during the Miami Jazz Film Festival at the Tower Theatre on October 2.

Published:Friday | September 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Photographer Ann-Loy Morgan tells The Gleaner "I was born in Montego Bay where I was raised by a very loving extended family, headed by my grandmother.

Published:Friday | September 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Shereen Sterling, 23-year-old student of the University of the West Indies, topped a field of 26 contestants to be crowned Miss Global Jamaica at the Grand Palladium resort in Point, Hanover.Sterling, who...

Published:Friday | September 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

It was an eventful week on the social calendar...

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