LONDON (AP): Britain’s leading literary award, the Man Booker Prize, faces uncertainty after its main financial backer announced it is ending its sponsorship after almost two decades. Investment manager Man Group PLC says it will stop funding...
Published:Wednesday | January 30, 2019 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
The line-up for Buju Banton's Long Walk To Freedom concert, has been revealed. Slated for the National Stadium on March 16, the artiste's publicist Ronnie Tomlinson, confirmed the line up with The Gleaner. It includes; Chronixx, Cocoa...
On Tuesday, February 26, Johnny Daley’s Comedy Bar live series returns for a second season. This time around, the stand-up show will be held at The Blue Room at the Phoenix Theatre on Haining Road instead of its initial 100 Hope Road home....
Grammy award- winning reggae and dancehall artiste Buju Banton has been confirmed for this year’s Summerjam Festival, held annually in Cologne, Germany. Buju will headline the Red Stage on Saturday, July 6. This is the first European show...
The local music industry is currently not at the stage where each performing act at a music festival arrives with his own tour bus, packed with his own instruments and musicians. Despite this, however, festival organisers must find a...
This Paramount Pictures’ release is director Adam Shankman’s (Hairspray, Rock of Ages) latest comedy starring Hidden Figures star, Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson. What Men Want is produced by Will Packer and James Lopez (Girls...
Sony Pictures’ Miss Bala stars Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Mackie, Ismael Cruz Cordova. Gloria (Gina Rodriguez) finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her...
Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Hidden Figures) and Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, The Lord of the Rings trilogy star in Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures’ Green Book. In his foray...
R&B star James Ingram has died at the age of 66. Media reports suggest he had brain cancer. Longtime friend Debbie Allen confirmed Ingram's death in a post on Twitter.
NEW YORK (AP): Black Panther took the top award at Sunday’s 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), giving Ryan Coogler’s superhero sensation its most significant awards-season honour yet and potentially setting up Wakanda for a major...
Veteran singer Myrna Hague, ‘Jamaica’s First Lady of Jazz’, was almost out of breath near the end of recalling the story of a music teacher who sought counsel following an unpleasant interaction with the parent of a student. As it...
Since he won the British High Commission’s Songs of the UK in JA competition, upcoming artiste Dwight-Christopher Allen, aka Tamo J, has been busy. The artiste now has plans to release two new singles next month. Tamo J won from a field of 27...
Shortly after returning home from her London base, Pulse model Miqueal Symone Williams got seconded to Paris over the Christmas season to shoot for top French label Armani. This is a major career boost for the fast-rising Pulse star who won the...
If you were a certain age, specifically eight, growing up at a certain time, specifically the late ’90s to the early 2000s, there was one show you were unable to escape: Dragon Ball Z. The show chronicled the adventures of Goku, a...
In some circles, the name King Tubby is synonymous with dub. The celebrated ‘dub extraordinaire’ would have turned 78 tomorrow and is remembered for his contributions to the development of Jamaican music as a musical engineer and sound...
Published:Sunday | January 27, 2019 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
“All I want is peace and quiet But outside they’re making a riot So I’ve got to save myself from harm I want to hear my radio playing But instead some guys are saying That there is no reason for alarm Ten thousand guard, ten...
Many persons may not have heard much from Jessica Yap in a while. That’s because the 25-year-old has been busy doing other things – like studying to become a medical doctor and is now in private practice. For years, Yap has been lauded...
In February 2018, the University of Technology, Jamaica, hosted a digital switchover information session where the executive director of the Broadcasting Commission, Cordel Green, stated that, “The global march of digitisation has made the...
Frustrating, fearful, but necessary, was how Peta-Gay McClure described the last 15 years of her life. Dealing with a divorce in addition to other distressing situations taught her many lessons which she documents in her first book –The...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is “trying their band” at something new for its ‘Grand Fundraising Concert’ tonight at the Police Officers’ Club, 34 Hope Road, St Andrew. Known primarily for performing music that...
