Author: Nicholas Laughlin

Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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,...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events

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...

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Literature, Reviews

New and Recent Books about the Caribbean (September/October 2002)

PICK OF THE MONTH Sugar and Slate Charlotte Williams (Planet 2002, 192pp, ISBN 0-9540881-0-7) The search for identity must be the...

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Literature, Reviews

New and recent books about the Caribbean (July/August 2002)

PICK OF THE MONTH The Last Days of St Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. (Rutgers University...

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Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (May/June 2002)

PICK OF THE MONTH Frantz Fanon: A Biography David Macey (Picador 2001, 640pp, ISBN 0-312-27550-1) Forty years after his death, who is...

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