By Roxan Kinas and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 36 (March/April 1999)
Upbeat (March/April 1999)
CALYPSO Living Legends Of Calypso: The Glamour Boys Again Various artists (XPATZ Music, New York, 1998) Eight singers are featured on this...
By Debbie Jacob, Roxan Kinas, Jeremy Taylor and Simon Lee ● Issue 37 (May/June 1999)
Upbeat (May/June 1999)
CARNIVAL ’99 International Chantuelle David Rudder (Lypsoland CR 029) International Chantuelle is a mirror of Trinidad: the sacred and...
By Vaneisa Baksh and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 42 (March/April 2000)
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2000)
PICK OF THE MONTH THE TRUE VOICE OF CALYPSO The Political Calypso: True Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago 1962-1987 Louis Regis (The Press...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
The Connoisseur’s Caribbean
Every true wine lover hopes to someday tour France’s Bordeaux region, or California’s Napa Valley. Opera mavens head to Milan for...
Culture, Music, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
Birdie’s Best: the Mighty Sparrow’s Top 10 Hits
Some columns are easier to write than others, and despite more than three decades of covering Caribbean music, promoting concerts, hosting...
By Simon Lee ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Meet me at the office
First-time visitors to the Caribbean may be unaware that the most important institution in the islands is neither the parliament nor the...
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 64 (November/December 2003)
Wake the world: hip-hop’s Caribbean roots
I happened recently to catch some recorded footage of hip-hop megastar Eminem making an acceptance speech — or, to be more precise,...