Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica (ACIJ) director Bernard Jankee made it clear that remounting 'Movements Through the Passage' had not been planned in honour of the late Professor Rex Nettleford. However, speaking at Monday's launch in the ACIJ's Ocean Boulevard...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP):A star for former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday evening during a whimsical ceremony that also marked the 50th anniversary of groundbreaking on the sidewalk attraction.Starr's name was the...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
As he had predicted, 2010 is off to a good start for Iceman. With his songs Mischievous and Keep My Hustle Alive having good momentum, the singer is also making a name for himself among the teenage population as he participates...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP): Lil Wayne's prison sentence was expected to begin yesterday but the rapper was granted a brief reprieve. Wayne will report back to a New York courtroom on March 2 because his lawyers argued that he had to undergo dental surgery before his prison sentence began...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Western Bureau: Excellent theatre coordination and performances emanated from the stage during the world premiere of Jane Crichton's White Witch play, held at the Fairfield Theatre in Montego Bay at the weekend. Directed by renowned director, Douglas Prout...
Caribbean Fashion-week (CFW) celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, between June 8 to 14, at the National Indoor Sports Centre in St Andrew. Kingsley Cooper, chairman of Pulse which organises CFW, said this year's event would represent a combination...
REWARDING REGGAE'S BEST - Local celebs put on their finery for this year's EME Awards presentation show, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston....
Gospel artistes Robert and Jenieve Bailey host their sixth annual Valentine's Day concert, It's All About Love, at the Courtleigh Auditorium on Sunday.Robert and Jenieve were members of the now defunct gospel group, Life Singers. They became a duo when the other members...
By the time the Bonner Brothers took the stage last Thursday night, they were performing to mostly white chairs that were in the gardens of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel at the sixth staging of the Excellence in Music and Entertainment (EME) awards....
In a Gleaner story carried last October, a day after being conferred with the Order of Merit, Professor Mervyn Morris said, "I hope that literature and the arts will be increasingly noticed for an award of this kind". He dedicated the award...
If anyone still needed living proof of Jamaicans' enduring passion for the love song, well composed and delivered, they would have got it at last Friday's tribute - to Jamaica's two most popular deceased singers - in the smiling figure of Keith Lyn....
The Youth View Awards (YVAs) showed vast improvement at its third staging held last Saturday night at the National Indoor Sports Centre. The awards show boasted elegant décor, great organisation and a crowd that was definitely "young, hot and hype"....
Worrell King has said that while a complete package is required from a closing act, "unfortunately in Jamaica there are not a lot of show people." Among the effective closers King has seen are Capleton, Ras Moses...
Next Sunday, much love is going to be in the air, well at least at Somerset Falls, Hope Bay, Portland. But forget it if you are thinking it's about Valentine's Day, roses, chocolate and that fictitious Cupid and his little bow and arrow.
NEW YORK (AP):After a year of insurmountable grief, John Travolta has returned to work. He took most of last year off to mourn the death of his 16-year-old son, Jett, who died on January 2, 2009, of a seizure while vacationing in The Bahamas.
It is coming up to the end of the typical long stage show in Jamaica. The patrons have been on their feet all night through a slew of performers, cheering, jeering or dishing out the silent treatment as they are so moved.
In the process of recording a subsequent Grammy-wining album, Ziggy Marley experienced a renaissance of sorts in his storied career which started in the mid-1980s as the leader of the sibling group, Ziggy Marley and the Melody...
Green Gables theatre is synonymous with productions that generate an avalanche of laughter often from bawdy lines, one dimensional characters and quality directing.
Reggae artiste Gyptian was his usual down-to-earth self when he spoke recently with The Gleaner, promoting his latest singles. The conscious-thinking reggae singer, born Windel Edwards on October 25, 1983, hopes to revive his name in fans' consciousness...
Pulse and the Caribbean's leading male modelling star Oraine Barrett has captured another major assignment, this time as the front man for Ralph Lauren's Polo Winter Olympic campaign. The worldwide release of the campaign comes ahead of one of sport's biggest global events...
