'The Love List' includes Best Actress for Nadia Khan

Nadia Khan lost a couple things doing The Love List. A toenail. Some skin from her left knee. Almost her footing, as a fragile kitchen counter shuddered underneath her in a performance on the road.

Four countries, at home

Nadia Khan sums up the theatre as "such a beautiful place, like Maracas, the beach I went to every weekend in Trinidad." She would have heard about another beautiful place, Jamaica, while still a child in the twin-island republic.Her father, a...

Black, gold, green theme song for Penn Relays athletes

When Jamaican athletes compete at next week's Penn Relays in Philadelphia, they will be accompanied by a theme song produced by long-time supporters Team Jamaica Bickle.Black, Gold and...

Calabash reaches 10

Jamaica's Calabash International Literary Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a joyfest of readings, live music, cinema and inventive conversation at Jake's in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, from Friday, May 28 to Sunday, May 30.All events...

Cedric Newman: Doing comedy the West Indian way

While comedian Cedric Newman has 10 years' experience under his belt, making a Jamaican laugh, he said, is hard to do.

Ruth-Ann Brown: Confident, talented, ready for greatness

She chirps like an early-morning bird, rocks you like reggae and seeps into your bloodstream like any good artiste does.

Quickies

An all-star cast will perform at the Crossroads Entertainment Complex in Bladensburg, Maryland, today, in a fund-raising concert for singer Conradine 'Connie' Campbell who suffered a debilitating stroke last year.Tarrus...

STORY OF THE SONG: 'Cockney and Yardie' combines foreign speech

Officially, Jamaica and England share the same language. In reality, variations of the 'Queen's English' hold sway in both countries, putting the speakers even further apart in verbal communication than the difficulties often posed by accent and enunciation.

Dominick moves from journalism to deejaying

Jamaicans knew of Dominick in his deejay mode, but when Peter Metro met him he was working as a journalist, writing about music rather than performing it."I did a show in Brixton Academy one night.

ONE STEP BEYOND: How a dance-crazy Birmingham schoolgirl grew up to own her own dance company

IT'S A STORY to rival the musical Billy Elliott - how a dance-mad little girl went from prancing to Jimmy Cliff in her mum's living room to running her...

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