Barbara Gloudon, writer, journalist, actress, and all-round evangelist for the performing arts in general, took her final bow on Wednesday night. Gloudon, 87, passed away only 11 days after her husband, known food technologist and orchid...
He’s boombastic and he’s fantastic, and Brown University, a private Ivy League research institution located in Providence, Rhode Island, recognises that fact and is honouring Shaggy in a huge way at the end of the month. The Grammy award winning...
WESTERN BUREAU: Airbnb stakeholders who operate through the Jamaica Home Sharing Association (JHSA) say they are ready to cash in on the live, in-person return of Reggae Sumfest to Montego Bay in July. Following a two-year, pandemic-induced...
(The Entertainment Desk continues its weekly ‘Jamaica 60’ feature in celebration of the island’s rich musical heritage.) In August 2020, Faron McKenzie was announced as new head of BBC Radio 1Xtra. At the time of his appointment, McKenzie, whose...
HELD OVER Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a thrilling ride through the Multiverse with Doctor Strange, his trusted friend Wong and Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch. Dr Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that...
Our cinemas are open for your entertainment – Carib 5 in Cross Roads; Sunshine Palace, Portmore; Palace Cineplex, Sovereign Centre, Liguanea; Palace Multiplex in Montego Bay; and the New Kingston Drive-In. As restrictions change, we adjust our...
FIRESTARTER – MONSTER OR SUPERHERO? In a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that...
One of the most compelling and conflicted characters in Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic anti-hero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood...
Having discovered an emerald that is the source of ultimate power, the villain Dr Robotnik (Jim Carrey) is back on Earth with a vicious partner, Knuckles (Idris Elba). Humanity is at risk and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) must prove that he has what it...
Brilliant, but reclusive author Loretta Sage (Academy Award® winner Sandra Bullock) has spent her career writing about exotic places in her popular romance-adventure novels featuring handsome cover model Alan (Channing Tatum), who has dedicated his...
Alex Lewis (Liam Neeson) is an expert assassin with a reputation for discreet precision. Caught in a moral quagmire, Alex refuses to complete a job that violates his ethics and must quickly hunt down and eliminate the people who hired him before...
Many movie patrons have a favourite cinema, and fans of Palace Cineplex in the Sovereign Centre, Liguanea, are excited to be out to the movies again, at the location they love best. Since the reopening on May 4, the cinema has been enjoying a...
It’s all love for Macka Diamond when she goes to Costa Rica. The Dye Dye hitmaker did three shows on the weekend in San José, Limón and Turrialba, following a meet-and-greet event on Thursday. “Costa Rica is like being in the music business back...
A viewing for Fitzroy 'Bunny Diamond' Simpson, a member of the legendary reggae group, the Mighty Diamonds, will be held at Perry's Funeral Home on Job Lane in Spanish Town on Wednesday May 11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Minister of Culture, Gender,...
Local master of the turntables Ryan Williams, more popularly known as DJ Smoke, has called for the entertainment sector to join hands and hearts in aid of raising funds for an urgently needed angioplasty procedure. DJ Smoke first noticed he was...
When two brothers, who just happen to be sons of a legend, team up for a song, then obviously, great things are expected. Reggae fusion artiste Zzambo and his brother, Isat Buchanan, who is more well known in the legal field, are excited about...
Reggae singer Tinga Stewart, whose illness has left doctors baffled, is devastated following the sudden death of his wife, Andrea, at the University Hospital of the West Indies early last Thursday morning. Tributes are pouring in for the 41-year-...
Veteran deejay Professor Nuts has been getting his flowers lately. Over the past two years, ‘Queen of the Stage,’ Spice, has constantly hailed him as one of her primary inspirations, and Twin of Twins’ Tu-Lox has referenced him as one to model when...
(For this special Mother’s Day celebration during the year of Jamaica 60, the Entertainment Desk is featuring some of the women who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of music and culture.) In the reggae genre, no other earthly...
(For this special Mother’s Day celebration during the year of Jamaica 60, the Entertainment Desk is featuring some of the women who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of music and culture) The story of VP Records is one defined...
Rita Marley’s prominence and legacy lie not only in the fact that she is the matriarch of a successful, influential family of creatives, guiding them along in their numerous endeavours and instilling in them the belief that they can achieve any and...
(For this special Mother’s Day celebration during the year of Jamaica 60, the Entertainment Desk is featuring some of the women who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of music and culture.) Sonia Pottinger’s professional story...
(For this special Mother’s Day celebration during the year of Jamaica 60, the Entertainment Desk is featuring some of the women who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of music and culture.) She never had any biological children...
(For this special Mother’s Day which is being celebrated during the year of Jamaica 60, the Entertainment Desk is featuring some of the women who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of music and culture.) There’s no business like...
It is going to be a love fest in the intimate setting of the Courtleigh Auditorium located in the heart of New Kingston on Saturday, June 18, when four of Jamaica’s renowned entertainers take to the stage for the cabaret show, Bring Back the Love...
