The London International Ska Festival 2011, which was recently held at the Clapham Grand Theatre over four days, was a success with solid performances from Ken Boothe, Dave and Ansel Collins, the English Beat and Marcia Griffiths....
With his most recent hit Shaka Zulu Pickney riding the New York, South Florida, RETV and HYPE TV charts, singer Tarrus Riley is set to unleash his arsenal of hits at the 2011 staging of the Best of the Best concert in Miami on May 29....
Confidence, beauty and charisma manifested themselves through the eight contestants in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's Miss St Mary Festival Queen Coronation show at the St Mary Anglican Church Hall on...
Blakka Ellis returns to the stage unplugged, uncensored and uninhibited for a one-weekend-only, one-man show at Centerstage Theatre, opening Friday, May 20...
Since the late 1980s, Shango, more popularly known as Capleton has been one of Jamaica's most outstanding deejays. There is no doubt as to his impact over the years, with songs like Raggy Road...
The Jamaica Film Academy will again have a Make a Film in 24 Hours competition at this year's Reggae Film Festival.RBTT Bank Jamaica Limited and its parent company, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) will lend their corporate support to the special programme...
Justin Bieber has agreed to record a public service announcement on cyber bullying in order to resolve criminal charges filed against his manager and a record executive after a frenzy at a New York mall.
The creators of compact disc (CD) must have got their inspiration from the most compact form of literature - poetry. You see poets, whether in songs, spoken words with accompaniment from an instrument or in its naked form...
Thor smashed the competition at the box office with a US$66-million opening weekend. The 3-D action picture from Paramount, based on the Marvel comic, was by far the No. 1 movie, according to yesterday's studio estimates. Australian actor Chris Hemsworth stars ...
St Ann-based Ilandestiny Tours and Travel celebrated its fifth anniversary recently with a dinner and awards function at the Riu Club Hotel in Mammee Bay, near Ocho Rios...
The actress raises three adopted kids - Maddox, nine, Pax, seven, and six-year-old Zahara - with her long-term partner Brad Pitt and she admits neither she nor Brad hide their family's history from them.
Western Bureau: In honouring a reggae icon and preserving his legacy, Pashon Minott, daughter of famed Sugar Minott has sought to use the month of May to celebrate the life and work of her father."This is Sugar Minott's birth...
Western Bureau: After 38 years in the business, his locks and beard have turned snow-white but despite 11 albums and too many singles to remember, retirement is the farthest thing...
There is much to be expected from a production that is described as "vivacious comedy" and presented as a "remedy for the family". But alas, Family Remedy the production currently being staged at the Theatre Place, in New Kingston, does not live up to those expectations.
A gathering at Essex University's Lakeside Theatre witnessed history unfold just over a week ago.That gathering was the first to see Derek Walcott's Moon-Child.Walcott, the elder statesman of Caribbean theatre and an artist who has straddled the...
The month of May began auspiciously for lovers of art and music. It was still morning on May 1 when the island's newest chorale and two well-established opera singers came together to present a concert which was to earn them a standing ovation.
After 10 years the 'Calabash' broke, but its seeds have dispersed, germinated and are now bearing fruit in different forms.A good example is scheduled to commence on May 22 in Winfield, St Ann.Plans for the Asante Adoni Literary...
While it celebrates the West Indies cricket team's unprecedented dominance of team sport from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, the recently screened documentary Fire in Babylon also reopened the issue of the rebel tours to Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.
Looking beyond the myths, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald takes fans through an appreciation of the work and the man that was reggae legend Bob Marley. The documentary, Marley, is scheduled for release in September - 30 years after the icon's death.
This is the final instalment in a six-part feature on Pulse supermodel Jeneil Williams. Williams has not only become one of the most recognisable supermodels in the world, but is, arguably, the most successful cover girl that the Caribbean has produced.
Errol Lee and the Bare Essentials went into Harry J Studio on Roosevelt Avenue (now Herb McKenley Drive) in St Andrew as a unit to record Rebel Tour, armed with the lyrics and ready to work out the music.
Styleweek, which is to be held from May 25-29, is gathering international steam due, in part, to an article in the April issue of respected United Kingdom-based Arise Magazine.The article has been...
In an industry plagued by payola, Lloyd Laing says he has formulated a computerised global reggae chart that is credible and free of human interference.Speaking with The Sunday Gleaner recently, Laing explained that the...
Students at the Denham Town Primary, Central Branch All-Age and St Aloysius Primary schools got a very special treat this week when LIME brought special celebrity guests into their...
