Womanbition 2010 touched an emotional note on Sunday night when Etana cried during her performance at Starapples, Hope Road, St Andrew. On the small stage, surrounded by teenage mothers from Mary's Child, Etana sat on a high...
Jamaican-born Errol Webber Jr is quite elated, having been the cinematographer for Music By Prudence, which won an Oscar award on Sunday.The documentary won the award for Best Documentary Short at the Academy Awards, which...
Emcees Dorraine Samuels and Michael Anthony Cuffe knew beforehand the title of each individual performer, save the final two, at Sunday night's Doctors Onstage for Cancer at Jamaica House, Hope Road, St Andrew.
Mother-daughter duo of Lavada Carruthers, executive director of the Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica, and daughter Sekeywi Carruthers pose for the camera at Saturday night's awards banquet...
Reaching out and linking corporate Jamaica to the music, Mikey Bennett of Grafton Music is hoping to make the road for talented local bands an easier one to travel. After years of working with the School of Music...
The actress was given the accolade for her performance in All About Steve and stunned guests at the Los Angeles ceremony, which recognises the worst films of the year, by turning up to collect the trophy.Arriving with a trailer filled with DVDs,...
The Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival closed last Tuesday in Barbados, ending two weeks of film screenings, workshops and the Caribbean Film Marketplace, a forum for film-makers to pitch their products to distributors.
Ras Kassa and Franklyn 'Chappie' St Juste were among the Jamaicans involved in the inaugural The Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival, and though the output has been sporadic at best, with Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (1972) through to the late...
LOS ANGELES (AP):Quentin Tarantino rewrote the ending of World War II with Inglourious Basterds, his Dirty Dozen-style commando adventure that is nominated for best picture at today's Academy Awards.
Errol Samuels was born in 1948 at Victoria Jubilee Hospital and grew up at various addresses in Kingston, except for the two years he spent in England from 1954 to 1956. It was a childhood of fun and adventures.
International Women's Day will be celebrated today with Womanbition, an all-female showcase for charity.Under the theme 'Word, Sound and Power is a Mission', the show will be staged at Starapples Restaurant, Hope Road,...
Big Ship has grown from an idea, to a song, to a record label and now a studio, the base of Freddie McGregor's son and ace producer Stephen, as well as the Big Ship family, which includes Chino, Shema McGregor, Bramma and Laden.
Sunday's Jazz in the Gardens concert at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel was especially memorable for several people who were called from the audience by emcee Michael Anthony Cuffe.
A group of multi-skilled medical doctors will put a aside the stethoscopes and scalpels in exchange for the microphone on Sunday at Doctors Onstage for Cancer at Jamaica House, starting at 7 p.m.In its second year, the event, which is a partnership...
Western Bureau:Persons familiar with the catalogue of reggae singer Ginjah would know by now that this talented lyricist, who came to the fore at Beres Hammond's Harmony House, is a humanitarian who can identify with the plight...
Mi nah laugh. That must have been the sentiment of One Third's Miguel as he sat solemnly in the front row listening to comedian Dufton Shepherd cast aspersions on the sexuality of one of his group members.
NEW YORK (AP):Rap star Lil Wayne has left fans and fellow artistes with a video blitz, as he braces for as much as a year behind bars at the height of his career.The rapper was expected to begin his New...
The third annual Reggae Film Festival ended last Saturday at the Hilton Kingston hotel with the presentation of Honour Awards in 14 categories by Jamaica Film Academy (JFA) pioneer, actor Carl Bradshaw.
Western Bureau: After what he considered a very good year in 2009, prolific singer/songwriter/producer Lymie Murray could not have asked for a better start to 2010 than being given the opportunity to perform at the prestigious...
One of Jamaica's most celebrated sopranos thrilled her audience in a recital at Christ Church, Vineyard Town, on Sunday afternoon. Atlanta-based Dawn-Marie (Virtue-James) told The Gleaner Sunday's performance...
Close to the end of the official Actor Boy Awards nominations on Monday evening, Dorothy Cunningham exulted in the number of productions from which the nominees had been selected.
