Stories by Mel Cooke

In the mid-1980s, when personal audio storage space was measured in 60- and 90-minute cassettes (the 180-minute was a rarer sighting than the $5,000 note is currently) and not bytes, I treasured a gold 90-minute Maxell.I used it for Prince's Purple...

In 1970, Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, performing as Simon and Garfunkel, released their fifth studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water, which turned out to be their last. The title track (which is Bridge over Troubled Water and not Bridge over...

Now that the battle of the divas, curvy and fluffy, has been publicly pacified, it is a good time to take a good look (and I mean that literally) at the ladies involved and what it says about the Jamaican male's taste (take that figuratively or...

The rat is entrenched in Hollywood lore as the Rat Pack is the stuff of legend. Although the 1998 movie The Rat Pack centred on a group of performers led by Frank Sinatra and including Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, the...

On Tuesday night, Colin Channer dedicated the launch reading from Providential, his debut poetry collection, to Miss June, who is indelibly associated with the Calabash literary festival, which he co-founded.Miss June is a consistent presence at...

As Jimmy Riley’s life is being celebrated later this week, there will naturally be a lot of focus on the man who sang Black Mother Pray and of course his ‘singy singy’ son Tarrus.   One of the outstanding songs they recorded...

Speaking at the medical sciences complex University of the West Indies (UWI), last Tuesday during a Reggae Talk organised by the Department of Literatures in English, reggae artiste Queen Ifrica had advice for female performers....

The panel discussion on Winning Characters at the recent 2016 KingstOOn Animation Festival, held at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, was packed with those eager to know how to draw memorable animated personae.They heard...