By Quinton J. Hobson Now when it comes to making lewd, controversial statements about people in the entertainment industry, the E! talkshow Fashion Police is no stranger. However, the program, formerly hosted by late comedian Joan Rivers, just may have taken it a little too far this time when one of the show’s regular panelists […]
By Cherryll Birchwood Uzoruo Tobago Drama Guild presented The Devil’s Masquerade Ball on Carnival Tuesday in the Small Band Category … and revellers from ages three to 68 had a ball. There was no cost for costumes. Masqueraders just had to come to the Mas camp in Lowlands and get involved in costume construction. That […]
By Alicia Sealey As a storyteller and media broadcaster, Jamaican-born Louise Bennett‑Coverley (1919-2006) – affectionately known as ‘Miss Lou’ – paved the way for many of her fellow Caribbean word-smiths in her day by showing that speaking in one’s local language is valuable and acceptable. For that conviction alone, I like she! That was a […]
It’s official. Machel Montano’s Like Ah Boss was the most popular song of the 2015 Carnival Parade of the Bands in Trinidad. It was clearly a case of Machel Montano vs Machel Montano as his songs dominated the Parade of the Bands at the Queen’s Park Savannah venue. Montano’s Like Ah Boss was the first […]
By Judith Charles The Toronto Reference Library atrium in Yorkville was transformed into an oasis for world music. As part of its ongoing support for community and diversity in culture, Toronto Public Library hosted the gala Black History Month kick-off party on Feb. 6, From Griot to Hip Hop: The Music IS the Story. Librarian […]
She is the sole female nominated in the Best Reggae Recording category of this year’s Juno Awards but Tasha T certainly is not there to make up numbers. Her album, Real Talk, is nominated alongside recordings from Steele, Mikey Dangerous, Kirk Diamond and three-time winner Exco Levi. This is Tasha T’s second Juno nomination. The […]
By Andre Moses Sometime in 1973, the late Teddy Belgrave initiated discussions about forming a steelband on the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. Stored in a room there were some black pans, evidence of a previous edition of a campus steelband. Teddy had been a bassman in Laventille […]
It’s not your everyday collection of poems that you find in this book – Our Highest Priority: Embrace Courage, Abandon Fear – but what the author calls a poetic collection of stories. Barbadian-born Marva Smith says the book is “a philosophical presentation of stories that are themed on nature’s interaction with our planet,” adding that […]
Singer Mikey Dangerous has earned his second Juno Award nomination for Best Reggae Recording for the song Wake Up. The song, released on the Dub Avenue label and produced by Scorpio B, has done well in Canadian reggae circles. Mikey Dangerous won the Juno (Canada’s version of the Grammy) in 2008 for the song Don’t […]
By Jasminee Sahoye Described as nothing less than a game-changer for the art world, among other things, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s works will be among 100 large-scale paintings and drawings from private collections and public museums across Europe and North America at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) from Feb. 7 to May 10. Although his career […]
