Art & Leisure

Christine Randle, managing director of Ian Randle Publishers readily pointed out last week Thursday evening that the launch of The Longer Run: A Daughter's Story of Arthur Wint, comes some time after the book has been available to...

These days fine artist Thorold DeMercado is spending most of his time doing what he truly loves - painting.

The Department of Literatures in English, University of West Indies, Mona invites the public to a series of poetry and prose readings as part of the scheduled activities for 'March is Literatures in English Month'.

Rosemarie Hudson, the entrepreneurial print publisher who started BlackAmber publishers, has now set her sights on e-books. Hudson, who was born in Jamaica but grew up in the United Kingdom, recently launched her e-publishing company, HopeRoad, and continues to give voice to Caribbean, African and Asian writers.

Isabel Toledo's 'Roots of Style' is a very well-dressed little book. That will come as no surprise to fans of the Cuban-American fashion designer who rose to national prominence when Michelle Obama chose one of Toledo's dresses to wear on Inauguration Day.

Kay Osborne asked if I would be interested in reading a first novel by a friend of hers. Now Kay, formerly of TVJ, is a woman whom I respect highly, so I readily agreed.

Sweat slowly trickling down my spine

Cleon 'Ras Jaja' Golding was a happy man as he launched his first book, The Vibes, in the lecture hall of the Institute of Jamaica, East Street, Kingston, last Wednesday evening.

Title: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Fourteen grade-six students of Sts Peter and Paul Prep School in St Andrew are out to change the country through the power of music.

I am black and wonderfully made