Cuba: Yanqui doodle dandy
Nothing dates quite as quickly, at least in literary terms, as a guidebook. Scarcely has the text been delivered to the printer than hotels...
Go with the flow: 12 the band
If you’d followed the Trinidadian band 12 over the past 12 months, you’d have seen a musical collective in search of several things. A...
Caribbean bookshelf (March/April 2006)
Black as he’s painted Dancing in the Dark – Caryl Phillips (Secker & Warburg, ISBN 0-436-20583-1, 241 pp) Born in the Caribbean (St...
Marlon James: “I went for the flying women and upside-down cows”
He’s the Sean Paul of the literary world, stirring up a firestorm in the international community from a base in Kingston, Jamaica. Marlon...
Rhythm roundup (March/April 2006)
Unusual suspects Reggae Roadblock – Various artists (Caribbean Music Group) With all due respect to Bunji Garlin, Maximus Dan, and Machel...
Sticking to his roots: I-Wayne
Reggae music currently encompasses a multitude of divergent forms that sometimes seem at odds with each other. Although the predominant...
Art buzz (March/April 2006)
The uses of colour Artist Dennis de Caires’s current passion is yams. He is also passionate about everyday things like mangoes, flowers,...
The accidental festival
On the face of it, the island of St Barthélémy (St Barts to us anglos, St Barth to the locals) is an unlikely venue for a Caribbean film...
