Harsh winters and ice hockey come readily to mind when the Canadian city of Calgary comes up, but promoters of the Calgary Reggae Festival (CRF) are pushing to make their annual show a marquee event.
It takes a lot of work to put on a festival. It takes even more work if that festival is an international one that takes place in a fishing and farming community off the beaten path.
The Jamaica Netball Association (JNA) hosts its second Sunshine Evening next Friday at the University of the West Indies Assembly Hall starting at 6 p.m.
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (AP):Poet Maya Angelou celebrated a belated 82nd birthday on Thursday with a few celebrity friends and a few choice words about political divisiveness in the United States.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife, Margarita Zavala, were hosted to a state-of-the-art dinner at the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.
The cast and crew of Patrick Brown's hilarious musical comedy Easy Street leave Jamaica next Wednesday for shows in New York. Following its phenomenal run at Centerstage, Easy Street makes its New York premiere next Friday evening when it hits the stage...
Western Bureau: While this Saturday night's 22nd staging of Western Consciousness, which is slated for the scenic Paradise Park in Westmoreland, will once again provide a treat for the lovers of conscious music, it will hold added significance...
The Claro-sponsored Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's annual selection of parish festival queens is finished and Victory Academy has much to celebrate....
Jamaica will once again play host to the region's flagship fashion and lifestyle event, Caribbean Fashionweek (CFW), between June 8 and 14 at the National Indoor Sports Centre.
CANNES, France (AP):A gruesome, true story, plucked from the news headlines - the 1996 beheading of seven French monks during Algeria's bloody civil war - is the inspiration for one of the most contemplative and contained movies yet at this year's...
Think you can spare a minute to earn $100,000? A new radio trivia show is offering just that. Time has never been a more important factor than with the advent of One Minute Blitz, which is slated to hit radio airwaves on Friday...
A seasoned playwright throws his characters into onerous circumstances, forces them to make difficult decisions and then watches them fight to survive. This is true for tragedy and comedy, the only difference is whether the conflict is played for pathos...
THE PROMOTERS of Reggae Sumfest, Summerfest Promotions, has indicated that despite the challenges facing the event, the annual festival will take place from July 18-24 at Catherine Hall, St James.
Fond farewell - The American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica hosted a farewell reception for Ambassador Audrey Marks, at Jamaica House, Hope Road, on Friday night.
The seventy-two-year-old actor hates socialising with friends or family, and if people are boring him at one of his own dinner parties, he simply leaves them and goes to sleep.In an interview with German TV station TELE 5, he said: "If my guests go...
THE CULTURAL pageant catwalk came alive on Sunday with the coronation of the festival queen for the twin parishes of Kingston and St Andrew. After the eight contestants made several appearances, the sectional prizes were the first to be announced...
Today, Judy Mowatt uses every opportunity to minister for the Lord Jesus, but for this former member of the world-renowned group, Bob Marley and the I-Threes, this change comes from divine intervention....
Saturday night's Dahlia Repole Foundation event Iron Butterfly in the garden at The Jamaica Pegasus could have wallowed in sappiness and crashed under the weight of its own wings, metal's tautness being no replacement...
