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Published:Monday | April 4, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Port Antonio, Portland:Portland is getting ready to choose the lady who will represent the parish at this year's Festival Queen Competition.Eight women are now vying for that opportunity after they were sashed almost two...

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

After taking a three-year break, the South Coast Carnival is back and ready to jam. The carnival that included the Junction Carnival and the May Pen Blow Out were on hiatus from 2007 to 2009, primarily because of economic reasons, but according to organiser Ray Porter, both will be back this year and better than ever.

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

After starting dub poetry at the university level in 2000, Steppa is now a proud father, musician, writer and teacher who is preparing to release his book and CD combination called Reggaetry.

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

While deejays have been referred to as 'talking Gleaner', acknowledging their role in recording current events in the oral format, deejay Lone Ranger's Lovelorn comes from his reading The STAR's advice on matters of the heart.

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

With his fashionably plaited hair and extravagant jewellery, Rayvon stood out among the conservatives in the dining area of the Wyndham Kingston hotel. The Barbados-born singer, best known as Shaggy's foil on monster tracks like In The Summertime and Angel, was in town last week for recording sessions and to promote his self-titled album.

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

For two consecutive years Douglas Prout has walked away with not only the award for Best Director but the Best Production too, at the ITI Jamaica Centre Actor Boy Awards. His first award came in 2009 with Basil Dawkins' For Better or For Worst, and the second for the 2010 Jane Crichton-penned White Witch.

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Even in peacetime, areas like Bowerbanks and Waterhouse have been unable to shake the stigma of violence that has scarred them for many years. Music has provided a route out of poverty for many youths from these Kingston communities.

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A famished Baby Chris wolfs down a family-sized serving of Chinese food after a busy day doing the promotional rounds for his latest songs. The stiletto-framed singer hit the big time six years ago with the British hit Ring Ding Ding, but has found out that doing business in Kingston is way different than London.

Published:Saturday | April 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Bang Showbiz:Cameron Diaz thinks ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake is 'weird'. The 38-year-old star - who called time on her three-year relationship with the singer-and-actor in 2006...

Published:Saturday | April 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The 2011 GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships has been going through something of a reform as far as its reputation for creating violent confrontation goes.

Published:Saturday | April 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Bang Showbiz: Charlie Sheen is set to record a single with Snoop Dogg. The troubled actor - who kicks off his 'Violent Torpedo of Truth' tour today in Detroit...

Published:Saturday | April 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Bang Showbiz: Katy Perry has turned extra-terrestrial in her new video for forthcoming single ET.

Published:Friday | April 1, 2011 | 12:00 AM

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Published:Friday | April 1, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Clive 'Kubba' Pringle left Negril for the United States as a child, but he always dreamed of returning to Jamaica to run a business. He did, establishing the MXIII venue in the West End (now One Love Drive) in 1991...

Published:Friday | April 1, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Thematically and lyrically, Uprising Roots band's debut CD, Skyfiya, is at best unremarkable and at worst trite...

Published:Thursday | March 31, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The stars came out on Monday for the 21st staging of the Actor Boy Awards...

Published:Thursday | March 31, 2011 | 12:00 AM

San San, Portland: Twenty of the region's emerging music talents converged at Geejam studios in Port Antonio, Portland, last Friday for an interesting musical experience, where they explored 'music beyond the beat'....

Published:Thursday | March 31, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Love Has Many Faces, a one-act play scripted by award-winning Jamaica-born playwright and actor David Heron, will have its official New York premier on Saturday at the Nakisaki Restaurant and Dinner Theater in Hempstead, Long Island...

Published:Thursday | March 31, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Last Thursday evening, the four-man band Blu Grass in the Sky was elevated on stage at the CPTC's Wycliffe Bennett Studio. From there, under the all-seeing gaze of a multi-camera set-up, the band delivered their brand of music - what their Facebook page terms....

Published:Wednesday | March 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Establishing rapport with his large audience, coordinating hand waves, encouraging the pair of hornsmen to 'take it', talking about his history in and approach to music and laughing at his own dance moves in progress, Gavinchi Brown looked the part of a seasoned...

Published:Wednesday | March 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Monday was brilliant for the team from the Montego Bay-based Fairfield Theatre, and their production titled White Witch. Nominated in 14 of the 19 categories, in the 21st staging of the island's premier theatre event....

Published:Wednesday | March 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaica Medical Foundation 2011 held its fund-raising banquet and evening of elegance in aid of prostate cancer research....

Published:Tuesday | March 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Dennis Titus announces his return to Jamaican theatre with his most stirring dramatic comedy yet, Big Tree, Small Axe, opening at the Pantry Playhouse, Friday, April 8.The cast of Big Tree, Small Axe includes Volier Johnson, Deon Silvera, Dennis Titus...

Published:Tuesday | March 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

It was another memorable moment for fans of Beres Hammond, on Saturday.Instead of his scheduled forty-five minutes act, the Ardenne High School parent extended his performance to approximately an hour and thirty minutes...

Published:Tuesday | March 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

In his performance at Studio 38 on Friday night, Mavado was the epitome of brilliance, as he wowed patrons with a seemingly never-ending stream of hits.At minutes to 2 a.m....

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