Entertainment

While our athletes burned the tracks at the National Stadium, other celebrities in their own right participated in a race for life. And AIB fêted clients Jamaican-style.

LOS ANGELES (AP): Hulk, smash. That's what Captain America tells the Incredible Hulk to do in The Avengers, and that's what the Marvel Comics superhero mash-up did at the box office, smashing the domestic revenue record with a US$200.3-million debut....

When Junior Reid was busy building his career back in the '80s and '90s, could he have had the slightest idea that the One Blood camp would have...

Director of the Reggae Film Festival (RFF), Barbara Blake-Hannah says the event has grown tremendously and this can be seen in the increase in sponsorships. In previous years, she struggled with getting sponsorship for the event but on this occasion there were improvements.

The rise in live music and, by extension, bands in Jamaica, is not without its perils. In fact, there is an almost normal trend that accompanies the use of multiple bands at stage shows that threatens to stymie the progress groups have been making over the last few years in a fast-paced, entertainment-hungry environment.

Reggae music lovers in New York City are in for a musical treat on Sunday, July 1. A concert called Groovin In The Park that will showcase icons of reggae and R & B will take place on the American Independence holiday weekend at the Roy Wilkins Park in Queens, and the one-day extravaganza will be a tribute to the independence of three nations - the United States, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago...

Angrie Brown (left), a St Elizabeth student-teacher at the Catholic College of Mandeville, listens as Kerrene Grant-Morgan, business development officer at First Global Bank, explains the bank's new student-loan facility, which allows students to acquire an unsecured loan of up to a maximum of $1 million towards their education.

FORTY-EIGHT MEN displayed their culinary skills on Sunday as the Lions Club of Mandeville calendar event, 'Men Who Cook'. The event took centrestage at Brooks Park in Mandeville.

Jamaicans do love to party, but know how to throw in some serious work in the midst.Just ask the Kiwanians. The Press Association of Jamaica had a breakfast launch of its Hall of Fame on World Press Day...

The Skatalites lost yet another founding member, with Lloyd Brevett's passing yesterday morning at the Andrews Memorial Hospital in St Andrew. Brevett was 80 years old....

Alpha Primary, one of the oldest educational institutions in Jamaica, celebrates. Concerned friends of the ailing Cornwall Regional Hospital in the western end of the country launch 'We Care'...

It was billed as an adult-only event, and fortunately, the audience didn't disobey the 'warning' and take their children along. For it was a night of utter 'slackness', full of volcanoes on two legs and crescendos of seismic proportions...