A sold-out performance brought the audience to its feet with loud applause and cheers at the end of each segment at the opening night of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts last Friday night. The audience was obviously thrilled with the different segments which showcased a mixture of choreography […]
WHITE PLAINS, New York – As Heineken USA prepares to take over management of Red Stripe beer on March 1, the company announced plans to repatriate Red Stripe production to Jamaica. Desnoes and Geddes Ltd. (D&G) will start the process of returning production of Red Stripe from North America back to Jamaica by the end […]
SANTA CLARA, California – A Super Bowl halftime show whose early going promised to make it one of the franchise’s worst ever managed to evolve, briskly, into something far more interesting; a meta-commentary on various star personas and on the Super Bowl halftime show itself. The segment of the show belonging solely to Coldplay was […]
They have travelled to 71 countries on six continents and 48 U.S. states and captivated an estimated 25 million people with their performances. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre hopes to do the same during their three performances over two days in Toronto at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts March 4 and 5. The […]
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel maintains that the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is a one-off situation. This is an outright lie. Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times. Police killing African men and women are as American as apple pie and the FBI. It is as Chicago as Michael Jordon and Scottie […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Ken Boothe is singing a song familiar to many of his contemporaries: that his new songs are being overlooked by disc jockeys in Jamaica. The singer’s latest album, Journey, was recorded and produced at his Kingston home studio. It features the title track and New World Order. “Jamaicans need to get more […]
The notion that religion plays an important role in childhood moral development is not necessarily true a new international study suggests. The study by a team of developmental psychologists from the University of Chicago published Nov. 5 concludes that children of religious parents may not be as altruistic as those parents think. A team led […]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Son of St. Croix Tim Duncan stands alone in NBA history. After the San Antonio Spurs’ 94-84 win over the New York Knicks, he has 954 career wins, the most for any player with one team – an amazing record. This is Duncan’s 19th season in San Antonio. Knicks forward Kristaps […]
Snoop Lion is typical of many entertainers in his enjoyment of a joint. SMITHS FALLS, Ontario – Tweed Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canopy Growth Corporation, will sponsor the High Times 2015 Jamaican and World Cannabis Cups taking place in Negril, Jamaica. Tweed is a Canadian company licensed under the marijuana for medical […]
CLIFFORD, Virginia – A study published in a toxicology journal found that a chemical widely used in personal care products such as sunscreen poses an ecological threat to corals and coral reefs and threatens their existence. It only takes one drop of that chemical, oxybenzone, to cause disaster. Oxybenzone is found in over 3,500 sunscreen […]
