Word of mouth (January/February 2015)
The beauty of the battle Attillah Springer on the traditions and power of stickfighting, Trinidad’s homegrown martial art Forget the big...
Lesley Ann Noel: keeping it chic
If design is vision, then Lesley Ann Noel is emerging as one of Trinidad’s top young visionaries. After seven years in Brazil, Noel...
Bishop’s girls don’t cry | Last word
At the end of the love affair, I did what was expected of me. I made a misery playlist for my iPod, and ate appropriately obscene amounts...
Carifesta IX: celebrating ourselves
“You going Carifesta?” Not to be left out of the excitement, the corn soup vendor on Independence Square is getting into the spirit of...
Masman: Peter Minshall
It is the last Sunday in January, less than a month before Carnival 2006. At the headquarters of the Callaloo Company — in a World War...
Have her cake and eat it | Classic | Last word
Everybody thinks their grandmother makes the best black cake. They are wrong, since I can say with all surety that my grandmother made the...
Meggie 101 | Classic | Last Word
My name is Attillah, I’m 26, and I love to give meggies. Don’t look surprised. I’m not the only one. Meggie-mania is alive and well...
Azonto Lessons
This is my first time! In Africa! I exclaim this first to the immigration officer. And thereafter to anyone else who comes too close. My...
