Rhythm roundup (September/October 2006)
Dip and Fall Back: Dr Kinsey to Haile Selassie: Classic Jamaican Mento Various artists (Trojan) The British label Trojan, long known to reggae cognoscenti, has [...]
View ArticleA pelau of her own
Diet-wise, mine was a wild and uninhibited youth, unfettered by health concerns or nagging parents. True, my eating habits have turned out to be appalling; [...]
View ArticleSports Buzz (March/ April 2005)
Teeing off for a good cause Last year, the Cotton Tree Foundation’s charity golf tournament became the first one-day tournament in Trinidad to raise funds [...]
View ArticleBook Buzz (May/June 2005)
The Carnival is over Carnival Robert Antoni (Black Cat, ISBN 0-8021-7005-6, 297 pp) “Laurence de Boissière was once the tennis champion of Oxford. Don’t think [...]
View ArticleThe best of them all: great moments in reggae music
For the true music fan, there’s nothing quite like a good live concert, and over the years — more of them than I care to [...]
View ArticleBook reviews (July/August 2008)
More than a one-hit wonder This is the story of a man who became famous as a Test batsman who made a century on his [...]
View ArticleMusic buzz (July/August 2007)
Buddzing talent Bermudan singer Collie Buddz is the latest sensation to rock the reggae world. His fully-charged hit single, “Come Around”, continues to enjoy regular [...]
View ArticleTEMPO: GIMME MORE CARIBBEAN
I was chatting with my new buddy Frank the other day about Tempo, the fledgling television channel that was launched recently amid a flurry of [...]
View ArticleBook reviews (January/February 2008)
Badjohns, Bhaaji & Banknote Blue: Essays on the Social History of Language in Trinidad and Tobago Lise Winer (School of Continuing Studies, UWI, St Augustine, [...]
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Soné Ka-La Jacques Schwarz-Bart (Emarcy, B000FG5PYK) Two of the most exciting and flavourful Caribbean jazz releases I’ve heard in recent times have come from the [...]
View ArticleIsland Hopper – November/December 2005
The end-of-year holiday season starts in the Caribbean with many lights. In Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname, Hindus are joined by friends of all [...]
View ArticleFrank Francis: riding Toronto’s jazz trane
It’s Saturday night and the Trane Studio is packed. A smoking-hot trumpeter sizzles onstage; an appreciative audience sits rapt. Situated miles away from Toronto’s overheated [...]
View ArticleBruce Poon Tip: capitalist with a conscience
Like Mary Poppins, Bruce Poon Tip is practically perfect. That’s certainly the impression you get, talking to the people who surround him. Perfect husband, perfect [...]
View ArticleCaribbean Bookshelf (September/October 2006)
MACO Caribbean Homes ed. Kathy-Ann Waterman (Toute Bagai Publishing, ISBN 976-8194-64-2, 188 pp) A maco (or mako, macco, or macko) is someone who is always [...]
View ArticleEdwidge Danticat: finding her way home
I have never met Edwidge Danticat in person. Until I interviewed her a few months ago, any knowledge I had of her came from her [...]
View ArticlePatrick Parson: soulful messiah of Ballet Creole
Fusion. Diversity. High-energy. These are the words one encounters, over and over, in articles written about Patrick Parson and his history-making Ballet Creole. “History-making” because, [...]
View ArticleThe view from Simla
In the high forest of Trinidad’s Northern Range at Guanapo sits a house which has changed little since it was built many decades ago. Its [...]
View ArticleFire and ice
It was diabolically cold, that day in March when I took the ferry from downtown Toronto across to Ward’s Island. The wind would have been [...]
View ArticleArt buzz (March/April 2006)
The uses of colour Artist Dennis de Caires’s current passion is yams. He is also passionate about everyday things like mangoes, flowers, a cup, jug, [...]
View ArticleHappenings (November/December 2009)
Montserrat marks its words Joanne C Hillhouse Alliouagana, the Amerindian name for Montserrat, is poised to be its latest lure. The name has been chosen [...]
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