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...
LOS ANGELES (AP):Prosecutors plan to charge Michael Jackson's doctor with manslaughter, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.Prosecutors will file a criminal complaint against Dr Conrad Murray instead of taking the case before...
Sankofa Arts and Facilitation presents the production 'For black boys who have considered homicide when the streets were too much' on Saturday at the Dennis Scott Studio Theatre, Jamaica School of Drama.
WESTERN BUREAU: The annual Bob Marley Birthday Bash, which has been a signature event at the MXIII Lawn in Negril for the past 17 years, will not be staged this year as the police have denied promoter Clive 'Cubba' Pringle permission to stage the annual event...
Jamaican reggae singer Rita Marley will headline a fund-raising concert for the people of Haiti in Toronto on Saturday.The concert, dubbed One Love for Haiti, takes place at Kool Haus on what would have been the 65th birthday of her late husband, reggae...
Spirits were high at the inaugural Jazz Beach J'Ouvert last Saturday at the Aquasol Theme Park in Montego Bay.Renaissance Disco, with DJ Delano and DJ Pepsi on-board, provided music for the all-inclusive event, which kicked off around midday and went up...
WESTERN BUREAU: Talent had no boundaries as the high-profile 2010 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival climaxed at the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium in the wee hours of Sunday morning on the talent stage. Considered up-and-coming,...
