Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2012 | 12:00 AM
The Jamaica Alcohol Beverage Association (JABA) recently hosted the I'm Legal press conference at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. The event was attended by media personalities, local promoters and various alcohol-brand representatives.
Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2012 | 12:00 AM
A birthday party was held for the 100-year-old Ward Theatre on Sunday afternoon. Many friends of the institution attended. Three of them even cut a large birthday cake. But despite the music, dance, laughter and positive words, the function was fraught with dramatic irony.
Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2012 | 12:00 AM
International recording and performing artiste Alaine will put on a different shoe this Christmas when she steps out in GLASS SLIPPAZ - the 16th annual Jambiz Christmas production.
After their recent debut full self-produced performance at Redbones Blues Café, New Kingston, Tribe Sankofa is looking back at its full presentation and forward to possibilities.
According to Piero Scaruffi in his book A History of Popular Music, the first Jamaican recording studio opened in 1951. It recorded mento music, a fusion of European and African folk dance music.
Last year, there were uncertainties about the venue, but for the upcoming staging of Bacchanal Jamaica, things have been sailing along much more smoothly.
Skills, thrills and chills are a few of the words that come to mind when one thinks of the Metropolitan Opera's grand production of one of Giuseppe Verdi's most renowned opera's - Aida - which was broadcast live at Carib 5 last Saturday as the Met's Live in HD series continues.
Chairman of the South East Regional Health Authority, Lyttleton Shirley, represented the Victoria Jubilee Hospital at the launch of the Supreme Foundation where an expensive life-saving machine was promised.
The Ocean, Spring, Be Extraordinary and Prime Blue were just some of the cocktails that mixologists made while at the launch of Red Stripe's newest innovation '7 Mixer'.
Having produced some of Jamaica's most noted musical stalwarts, the contribution of the Alpha Boys' School to the Jamaican music pantheon is both extensive and invaluable.
The Platters were the real deal and easily the chief protagonist of the slower, sentimental style of rock and roll in the 1950s. But there was much more to rock and roll than the Platters or that of similar groups
The controversial Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) is offering to help dancehall and reggae artistes respond to efforts by gay-rights groups overseas to boycott their performances and music.
GODDESS Theatre, operated by award-winning actress, Terri Salmon, is set to make its official debut on the theatre scene on Boxing Day with the staging of the Trevor Rhone-classic, Two Can Play, at the Pantry Playhouse in New Kingston.
Di Blueprint Band is the best new band in the world. Last week, the youngsters competed in the Global Battle of the Bands in London and showed their acumen by taking home an important title, creating history in the process.
Students to be equipped with marketable skillsMel CookeGleaner WriterWhen the blue ribbon was cut last week to officially open the new drama facility at Vauxhall High School, it opened up wider possibilities for the Windward Road, St Andrew school's 20...
WESTERN BUREAU:Anxious to revive the dying nightlife offerings in the tourism capital, Montego Bay, the city's mayor and chairman of the St James Parish Council, Glendon Harris, is spearheading the renaissance of the popular MoBay Nite Out.
Performing arts lovers will get an opportunity to view one of Jamaica's foremost groups tomorrow, with the inaugural staging of 'Sing De Chorus Clap Yu Han' Nexus At Chrismus' at the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity.
Hailed as the 'grandest of all grand operas',Verdi's Aida brings magnificent music and pageantry to audiences at the Carib 5, Cross Roads, tomorrow at 12:55 p.m. Verdi's unmatched ability to transform human emotion into glorious music is said to have been at its apex when he crafted this intensely original and pleasurable masterpiece, arguably his best creation.
Dancehall artiste Chozenn has collaborated with Magnum Tonic Wine to host Spanish Town's first official jerk festival. The event will be held at the Spanish Town Prison Oval on Sunday and, according to the artiste/promoter, it will be a family affair.
Nadine Sutherland's Karma, produced by Rory Stonelove, has copped the coveted number one position on Clinton Lindsay's Top Thirty reggae charts. This chart covers New York Tri-State Area and is a compilation of plays on selected radio and Internet stations, as well as listeners' requests.
Multiple award-winning playwright Basil Dawkins is upping the entertainment social commentary bar with his issues-based dramedy titled Dangerous Ambitions, scheduled to stage its world premiere at the Little Little Theatre on December 27.
