Published:Thursday | October 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
From his introductory mixtape In Comes the Small Axe and breakout single Modern Day Judas, Jesse Royal has developed to the recent release of his debut album, Lily of Da Valley. The album is the top set on the Billboard Reggae Album Chart, and Jesse...
Published:Monday | October 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Wearing the hats of director, producer and screenwriter, Toni Morgan Haye has begun her career with a running start. On October 6, with the premiere of SYN on Amazon Prime Video, Toni Morgan Haye became the first Jamaican filmmaker to debut on one...
Published:Friday | October 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Parents across Jamaica will be familiar with the required recorder text book, Caribbean Beginner's Workbook for Soprano or Tenor Recorder.Author of the music work and practise book, which had many prep- and primary-school children tooting scales for...
Published:Friday | October 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
This summer, Jesse Royal hit the promotional trail, tilling soil in preparation for the October release of his debut album, Lily of Da Valley. The long-awaited 14-track production re-positions hits the 'Small Axe' has become known for, like Finally...
Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
New Zealand is one such country that has experienced an increase in tourist activity since the revelation that the sprawling, majestic shots of the terrain in The Lord of the Rings were captured there. Between Oregon and Vancouver, the Twilight...
Published:Thursday | October 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
"Cultural exploration around the globe" is currently the motto associated with Yvan Rodic's Facebook page.Fashion and style aficionados would be more familiar with Rodic's brand and moniker Facehunter. Beginning in 2006, Rodic has been at the...
Published:Thursday | October 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Investor Joe Bogdanovich announced yesterday the launch of Caribbean Love, a hurricane relief campaign that will support rebuilding programmes in islands affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.Entities Bogdanovich has made partners of Caribbean Love...
Published:Tuesday | October 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Denver 'Feluke' Smith will be heading to Mexico for the second stage of aggressive cancer treatment as early as this weekend.Two weeks ago, friends of the ailing musician rallied around to organise a benefit concert in the hopes of making light...
Published:Tuesday | September 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
The visual adaptation of Marlon James' Man Booker prize-winning, 'A Brief History of Seven Killings', has found its director. Melina Matsoukas, chief director of the HBO series Insecure, will tackle adaptation for Amazon Studios.Matsoukas is...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
At the National Gallery, viewers are invited into uncomfortable conversations, where artists gathered from various points of the transatlantic narrative express their perspectives on slavery and its legacy.Perspectives of Jamaica, Guyana by way of...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Some aspect of Angela Hunte's decades-spanning work is on a contemporary Jamaican disc jockey's playlist. The Brooklyn-born, Trinidad-raised singer earned her first Grammy Award as a songwriter, and many of her credits appear in that capacity....
Published:Monday | September 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
On Sunday night, a once-abandoned boy sat in the front row in the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium, Jamaica College, Old Hope Road. He, Feluke, was witness to a collection of performing artistes dedicating their time and skill to raising funds to get the...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
The cohort has been selected for the second reel of PROPELLA films.On September 21, directors of the five short films selected for support by the three-way JAFTA, JAMPRO, and Chase Fund partnership premiered their works to the audience of this year'...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Producer/vocalist Lee 'Scratch' Perry and drummer Larry McDonald have redone the Super Ape dub album, first released in 1976. Listed among the 100 essential reggae CDs by the Rough Guide publication, it includes tracks like Zion's Blood, Croaking...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Utilising the Internet has afforded many artistes the chance to share, connect and engage with partners and consumers across the globe. And as the World Wide Web blurs the barriers to communication and international interaction, attempts to...
Published:Sunday | September 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
The next art exhibition to be presented at the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, in partnership with the British Council, is named We Have Met Before.Its purpose is to revisit the subject of Trans-Atlantic slavery and its afterlives, as seen...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Walshy Fire of Major Lazer has put on blazing performances and produced scorching tracks.Today, he gives The Gleaner a peep into his creative mind.1: Is there a secret to retaining enough energy to tour as extensively and tirelessly as Major Lazer...
Published:Friday | September 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
A number of mainstream female personalities can to some degree, attribute success to their participation in reality-television programming.Celebrity legacy kids Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie became magazine and tabloid favourites during the...
Published:Thursday | September 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Whether by fateful design, or simply art imitating life, Maya Wilkinson’s theatrical debut resembles her first attempt in production as a child. The theatre bug bit young Maya at age nine in Wakefield, Trelawny, where she recalls...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
On Tuesday night Cru Bar and Kitchen's usual after-work crowd was accompanied by some musicians and celebrities to announce the release of yet another new song called Live Your Life. What separates Live Your Life from other songs which have...
Published:Sunday | August 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
The tradition of local beauty pageantry, watching women parade in bikinis and bedazzled gowns, has been a staple, standard part of the deal. For many patrons, the excitement lies within the breath-baiting interview segment. For others, the highlight...
Published:Thursday | August 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Perry Henzell is often called upon as one of Jamaica's more strident and pioneering feature filmmakers since the release of the sensational The Harder They Come. Lennie Little-White, Franklyn St Juste, Paul Campbell, 'Sonny T', and even Britain-born...
Published:Monday | August 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
Xaymaca International's directors are following up on their own suggestions."I would encourage that we begin planning as soon as our Carnival 2017 has ended. This is the only way for us to fully maximise our potential," director Andrew Bellamy told...
Published:Sunday | August 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
"At first glance, people who are uninitiated into dancehall see it as a sexual thing. And it is. You can't really divorce it from sexuality. But it's almost transcending and making sexuality so aggressive that it's giving all the power back to the...
Published:Thursday | August 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small
The big question for most film-makers is how to get it distributed. The majority of local box office sales are generated from importing primarily Hollywood films in local theatres.Last November, Lennie Little-White presented the idea of bolstering...
