Culture, Arts, People, Jamaica
By Petrine Archer-Straw ● Issue 60 (March/April 2003)
Laura Facey: Beauty and the Beast
Laura Facey’s sculpted figures are perfectly formed, pristine in their presentation. They capture the gestures of the human body in all...
Culture, Literature, Arts, People, Jamaica
By Jane Bryce ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
Peter Abrahams: The View From Coyaba
In the hills above Kingston, Jamaica’s sprawling, noisy capital, live an extraordinary couple. Daphne, born in Java, is the daughter...
Culture, Music, People, Jamaica
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
Riddem & Rhyme: Byron Lee
It was a bitterly cold, blustery night in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which happens to be my home town, and also happens to be one of the coldest...
By David Katz ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Clement “Sir Coxsone” Dodd: “Just working on the feel”
It started out from a little restaurant at Lawes Street and Ladd Lane, “Nanny’s Corner”, in Kingston in the ’50s: we used to play...
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Tommy Cowan: backstage king
The first time I met Tommy Cowan, I ended up in one of the Caribbean’s most notorious prisons. The year was 1976. I was in the middle of...
Culture, Arts, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica
By Anu Lakhan ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Cook it up
I left Trinidad early one January morning, thinking that Jamaica was the two things I most needed: it was warm, and it was 900 miles away...