Carnival is love | Backstory By Attillah Springer, Amanda Choo Quan and Georgia Popplewell | January/February 2021 T&T Carnival is tradition and originality, ritual and rebellion, the sacred and the profane — and a million love stories. Here are three of them, from Attillah Springer, Amanda Choo Quan, and Georgia Popplewell
Tony Hall (1948–2020) and Dennis “Sprangalang” Hall (1949–2020) | Icon By Attillah Springer | November/December 2020 • Digital Issue Attillah Springer explains the roles of T&T’s irreplaceable theatrical brothers in the ongoing struggle for cultural self-determination
Kambule: on morning ground | Snapshot By Attillah Springer | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) Early each Carnival Friday morning, before dawn breaks, crowds assemble at Piccadilly Greens in east Port of Spain for a re-enactment of a key event in the history of Trinidad — and of Carnival itself. Attillah Springer gives an intimate account of Kambule, when the spirits of the ancestors are invoked in a ritual of memory, story, song, and resistance
The Mighty Shadow | Icon By Attillah Springer | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) Attillah Springer writes a letter to T&T’s late calypsonian-philosopher
Every Trinidad Road March ever — and our top 10 By Caribbean Beat, Philip Sander and Attillah Springer | Issue 149 (January/February 2018) Of the eighty-plus songs that have won the official Road March title at Trinidad Carnival, some are little remembered, some have become “back-in-times” favourites, and a few are considered landmarks — whether for their musical qualities or for trends they ushered in. Here are all the recorded Trinidad Carnival Road March winners from 1930 up to 2020 — and our picks for an all-time Road March top ten
Word of mouth (March/April 2015) By Philip Sander, Attillah Springer and Kellie Magnus | Issue 132 (March/April 2015) The politics behind Trinidad’s Good Friday bobolees, Guyana’s Rupununi Rodeo, and the wrongs and rights of Jamaica Carnival
Word of mouth (January/February 2015) By Judy Raymond, John Robert Lee and Attillah Springer | Issue 131 (January/February 2015) Trinidad’s stickfighting season, a new film about the history of steel pan, and St Lucia’s week of Nobel celebrations
Lesley Ann Noel: keeping it chic By Attillah Springer | Issue 82 (November/December 2006) Trinidadian Lesley Ann Noel creates ethnic lifestyle chic with sustainable designs from around the world
