Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Carlisle Chang: the artist
Carlisle Chang, 1921–2001 “Carlisle Chang is in the realm of myth . . . His work — like himself — has a sense of timelessness,...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Stephen Derek: the globetrotter
Stephen Derek, born 1952 Few of today’s bandleaders can claim to have mastered all the traditional costume-design skills that thrived in...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Wayne Berkeley: the showman
Wayne Berkeley, born 1940 “Here was a man who wasn’t bluffing. An artist disdaining the Carnival cliché, the foil stuck on a costume...
Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Peter Minshall: the dramatist
Peter Minshall, born 1941 “It is doubtful that the work of any single individual has had so instantaneous and so searing an impact on the...
By Dylan Kerrigan and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Bikinis, beads, braids
The story of the last half-century of Trinidad Carnival is a story of brilliant, ambitious, tireless men and women, striving to achieve...
By Philip Sander, Dylan Kerrigan and Kellie Magnus ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Movers & shakers – Jan/Feb 2004
Sir George in charge 47 years ago, Barbadian George Alleyne was one of the first medical graduates of the University College of the West...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan and Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 58 (November/December 2002)
Tobago
Most people who know me think I’m either a workaholic or a lazy so-and-so: the ones who know me really well know that I’m in fact both....
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Dylan Kerrigan ● Issue 57 (September/October 2002)
Carnival, Tobago Style
Sometimes, I’ll be in my office, and suddenly memories of glitter, the tinkling of steelpans and the pounding of soca sound systems...