Entertainment
August 2, 2026
Music Review | Ariana Grande’s ‘Petal’ displays a pop star at her most restrained
NEW YORK (AP): Gone is the big-belter Ariana Grande. On Petal, her eighth studio album and first full-length release since both the end of her Wicked run and 2024’s Eternal Sunshine, the pop…
August 2, 2026
Skippa, Alaine, Future Fambo for Montego Bay Jerk Fest today
The 17th staging of the Montego Bay Jerk & Food Festival takes centre stage today at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre, with organisers promising a full slate of live entertainment alongside…
August 2, 2026
King’s House to Come Alive with Michael W. Smith, Papa San
An impressive cast of gospel artistes, led by internationally acclaimed singer Michael W. Smith and former dancehall star-turned-gospel minister Papa San, is set to headline Come Alive: A National…
July 31, 2026
5 Questions With Boom Boom
For more than 30 years, Boom Boom, also known as World Boom and Billboard Selector, has been at the centre of some of dancehall’s biggest moments. Whether behind the turntables, in front of a crowd,…
July 31, 2026
by Yasmine Peru
‘More life!’ at Stranger Cole’s thanksgiving service
Chants of “more life!” echoed through the Louise Bennett Garden Theatre on Wednesday morning as family, friends and fans gathered to celebrate the life of ska, rocksteady and reggae pioneer Theodore…
July 31, 2026
by Michael Reckord
At 64, the NDTC is ‘Rooted, Moving, Rising’
Emotion and excellence marked the opening night of the National Dance Theatre Company’s (NDTC) 64th Season of Dance under the theme ‘Rooted. Moving. Rising’ at the Little Theatre, Tom Redcam Drive.…
July 31, 2026
Movie Review | Olivia Wilde rules playful A-18 ‘I Want Your Sex’
Erika Tracy, the artist and provocateur at the heart of I Want Your Sex, may be the most quotable fictional female executive since Miranda Priestly “that’s all-ed” her way into film history.
July 30, 2026
by Nicola Cunningham
‘That’s where it all started’ - Newly renamed Wenchman Road shaped Bounty Killer
For dancehall icon Rodney Price, better known as Bounty Killer, Wenchman Road is more than just a street. It is where many of his defining memories were made, where he was injured, discovered music…
July 30, 2026
Movie Review | In ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, a lonely superhero grows up, looks inward
Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, like more of a native New Yorker than before?