Many uses for Marley's music at Ital Festival
Bob Marley's music was put to fashion, dance and, naturally, performance on Sunday evening at the Ranny Williams Centre, Hope Road, St. Andrew, as the Ital Food and Fashion Show 2007 started a week of celebrations for the Tuff Gong's 62nd birthday.
Jamaica moves to Rock 'n' Roll beat
The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, will pay tribute to Jamaican pop culture in February, as part of its Black History Month series. According to the museum's website, the activities are scheduled to begin today...
Assamba, Chen point to reggae's progress
Tourism Minister Aloun Assamba, the second guest speaker at last Thursday evening's launch of 'Symphony - Together Under the Stars' at the Terra Nova All Suit Hotel, put the concert's location and one of the performers...
English outside the classroom
Parents often ask for ways to help their adolescents who are often reluctant and sometimes remedial readers to read more. Drama and fiction are two important approaches that are used by the teacher to engage students in the learning of English...
'Chu Chu', Jamaica's own loud-mouth
He is no Tyler 'Madea' Perry, but Cleve 'Chu Chu' Warren personifies Jamaica's own loud-mouth stereotype. Some of his roles have required him to dress in drag, like his coming-out role as a higgler in Passa Passa and his current undertaking...
The hilarious 'Bashment Granny'
Garfield Reid's Bashment Granny hilariously portrays the lives of a family of three; 'Mr. Bashment', played by Maxwell 'Maama man' Grant; his son 'Trevor', a conman, played by the writer himself, and 'Jookie', a pilot, played by director Sted Flash.
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