Art & Leisure

Title: Many Rivers to Cross - A Political Journey of Audacious HopeAuthors: Mike Henry and Reginald AllenForeword by: Professor Oswald G.

Seattle, America's Pacific North-west city off Puget Sound - with its iconic Space Needle and Lunar Orbiter dessert at SkyCity restaurant in the Seattle Center, where there's also a Children's Museum, Global Village, and Monorail, all built for the 1962 World's Fair - is a dream city for families to visit.

The Cat of Muritaro is a compilation of eight fantastical tales culled from the belly of Caribbean folklore. Peter Halder, a former journalist, pens a fast-paced, gnashing and melodramatic oeuvre that will terrorise the young and innocent while tantalising the curiosity of occult aficionados.

Carmen and Charmaine wanted to assist Jessica in her room by getting her dressed for the moment of her life. A day the union of man and woman shall become one.

You know the routine. Get up, get the kids to school, go to work, return home, prepare dinner, do homework, sleep and wake up the next day to follow the same routine all over again.

Jamaican Revivalists are known for their colourful and elaborate uniforms, sometimes embellished with objects and symbols to which deep spiritual meanings are assigned, and which say something about the wearer.

At only the second staging of its biennial Rex Nettleford Arts Conference, The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) presented the first issue of its Jonkonnu Arts Journal recently.

Do you not like duppy stories? "Uno nah live nuh life yet man. I remember long time ago when people used to draw long bench ina de moonlight and chat pure duppy stories till granny call fi go light de lamp an wen dem fraid fi dweet, an' she fling de chimmey afta dem ... ".

It was a humbling experience to attend an international conference of writers, publishers, literary agents, screenwriters, TV and movie producers a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, California. Three to four days of back-to-back, sometimes conflicting sessions.

Like many of us over 50, what I used to get away with in my 20s and 30s (health-wise), has now been swapped for good, or maybe, better habits. I am enlightened.

With beats emanating from every corner of the island, music is as much a part of the character of Jamaica as the pristine beaches, the vast expanse of the turquoise seas and the delectable food.

The man that hath no music in himself,