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Island Jazz
by B.C. Pires
There are more than 30 jazz festivals every year in the Caribbean and most Caribbean people have never been to one. Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny G, Joe Sample, Andy Narrell, and a host of others who could turn heads in international airports, come and go largely unnoticed. And there is a...
What next for Brian Lara?
by B.C. Pires
In April, the 25-year-old Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies batsman scored 375 runs in the fourth Test against England in Antigua, breaking Sir Garry Sobers's 36-year-old record for the most runs scored in a single innings in Test cricket. Less than two months later, in June, just as ecstatic...
Lights, Camera, Bacchanal
by B.C. Pires
Dallas, the progenitor of all modern night-time soap operas, changed American culture so dramatically, if you please, that when Larry Hagman, starring as J.R. Ewing, was murdered in a season finale, a TV-show plot twist became the catchphrase for an era: “Who shot J.R.?” It’s...