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Published:Friday | December 16, 2022 | 12:22 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica-born actor and recording artiste Everton Dennis, more popularly known as E-Dee the Real Dancehall Celebrity, is celebrating a 10-year-long journey in the film industry. Dennis’ debut film, a biopic titled Out The Gate, premiered in theatres...

Published:Thursday | December 15, 2022 | 12:57 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

Reggae singer-songwriter Tarrus Riley is not about to compete with the packed calendar of events this weekend. He is focused on providing a star-studded showcase of wholesome entertainment with the return of Tarrus Riley and Friends, centred around...

Published:Thursday | December 15, 2022 | 12:35 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Megan Thee Stallion took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday and told jurors that rapper Tory Lanez fired five shots at her feet, yelled at her to dance and wounded her as she tried to walk away from him in the...

Published:Wednesday | December 14, 2022 | 12:40 PM

Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, the long-time and beloved dancing DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and a former contestant on So You Think You Can Dance, has died at the age of 40. His wife, Allison Holker Boss, confirmed his passing in a statement...

Published:Wednesday | December 14, 2022 | 1:16 AMMichael Reckord/Gleaner Writer

Two short plays designed to help students prepare for Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams were so successful when staged in March that they were remounted last month for general audiences. The second staging proved even more...

Published:Wednesday | December 14, 2022 | 1:10 AM

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their children), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay...

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2022 | 1:05 AM

A Backstreet Boys Christmas television special has been axed amid rape allegations against singer Nick Carter. A Very Backstreet Holiday, which was to feature the group’s songs from their latest album of the same name and was scheduled for a...

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2022 | 12:54 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

Twenty-four hours on the Welcome to Jamrock Reggae Cruise was hardly enough time for an adventure but, for persons who joined the festivities on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas last Friday when the ship docked at Freeport in Montego Bay, it...

Published:Monday | December 12, 2022 | 5:32 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Transparency was the name of the game last Friday as the organisers of a highly anticipated gospel concert, featuring Maverick City’s Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine, explained that the late payment of fees was the reason why the headliners...

Published:Monday | December 12, 2022 | 5:30 AM

No stranger to powering world-class entertainment events, Hennessy Jamaica is promising patrons a larger-than-life experience for the upcoming Love Damini concert, headlined by the African Giant himself, Burna Boy. The Grammy Award winner and...

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2022 | 9:07 AMYasmine Peru - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Dancehall artiste Mr Vegas is fully bright and loving it. Having performed on numerous stages across the globe in his 30-plus year career, today, Clifford Smith’s journey takes him to a different stage, one on which there is no mic in his hand and...

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2022 | 9:04 AMAnthony Turner - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Jamaican-born, New York-based concert promoter George Crooks’ mantra is to make people happy. His success as an event promoter is not by chance, but the result of hard work, planning, foresight, and executing a well-thought-out marketing strategy...

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2022 | 12:33 AM

Jamaica-born, Los Angeles-based actress Miranda Melhado has joined the cast of the new TV pilot From Yard to be shot in Jamaica and Atlanta early in 2023. The series, based on the autobiographical novel Yardie by David G. Heron, is an immigrant...

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2022 | 12:50 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Next month’s AFI Awards will honour films including the Avatar sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and popular television series like Abbott Elementary, Better Call Saul and The White Lotus. The American Film Institute announced...

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2022 | 12:49 AM

SOS by SZA (Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA) “Said what’s on my mind,” SZA professed in the first track at the top of her long-awaited second album, SOS. And that’s exactly what she does. The album comes after over five years since her debut album,...

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2022 | 12:32 AM

After years of uproar about foreign-based awards, the Marketplace Entertainment Centre for the Arts (MECA) has delivered on its commitment to produce a Jamaican-based entertainment awards show where the nominations and voting would be open to the...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2022 | 1:09 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

University of the West Indies medical student Shanique Singh, having won two of the Miss Jamaica World all-important fast-track events – the Serengeti Talent Fast Track Event, which she won with a traditional Indian dance and the Fort Clarence...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2022 | 1:06 AM

Celine Dion has put a halt on all performing after being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder. In an emotional video messages posted in French and English on Thursday on Instagram, Dion said stiff person syndrome was causing spasms that...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2022 | 12:55 AMDamian Levy/Gleaner Writer

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and on the silver screen, armed robbers roam a mansion, and they’re looking quite mean. A family is threatened, scared for their lives. There’s children, grandparents, husbands and wives. All seems without hope, no...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2022 | 12:41 AM

Organisers of what has been dubbed ‘the long-anticipated event of the year, The Well Encounter, have announced a last-minute change of venue from the National Stadium to the National Arena. Scheduled for Saturday, December 10, the gospel concert...

Published:Thursday | December 8, 2022 | 10:15 AM

Celine Dion has put a halt on all performing after being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder. In an emotional video message posted in French and English on Thursday on Inst gram, Dion said stiff person syndrome was causing spasms that...

Published:Thursday | December 8, 2022 | 10:18 AM

Reggae-dancehall icon Sizzla says Grammy Award-winning rapper and business mogul DJ Khaled has "insulted" him. He started a live broadcast on Instagram earlier this morning to share his outrage with fans and also posted the saved reels to his...

Published:Thursday | December 8, 2022 | 12:29 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): While filming Emancipation, Will Smith routinely drew inspiration from the words “sacred motivation” that were written on the front page of a script. But the Oscar winner heavily leaned on the phrase even more in recent months, as...

Published:Thursday | December 8, 2022 | 12:10 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

The fourth staging of Island Child Star, which unfolded last Saturday at the Historic Naval Dockyard in Port Royal, has been attracting quite a bit of kudos, especially on social media, where the comments are clothed in words such as ‘epic’, ‘...

Published:Wednesday | December 7, 2022 | 12:09 AM

BLACK PANTHER – WAKANDA FOREVER continues to reign globally and here in Jamaica on Palace Amusement screens. A must-see! Don’t miss out on this cultural phenomenon, showing at all cinemas. In the wake of King T’Challa’s death, Queen Ramonda (...

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