Preston Bailey: “for a party you want people to remember… Enough is not enough”
Preston Bailey’s story reads almost like a fairytale – it is a genuine rags-to-riches saga. “I came from a very poor background,”...
Brownman blows up a storm
In an intimate jazz bar in mid-town Toronto, a well-fed horn is making some startling statements to a rapt, respectful crowd. Attached to...
Theron Shaw: the art of the matter
One night, as Trinidadian musician Theron Shaw was returning home from a rehearsal, a speeding car rammed into him on the dark highway....
Ncity goes to town
Rihanna’s success as an international star has not only inspired artistes in her native Barbados but across the Caribbean, including the...
Flying the flag: T&T Ent
Last October, 3Canal, the Trinidad and Tobago rapso group featuring Wendell Manwarren, Stanton Kewley and Roger Roberts, was selected to...
Book reviews (January/February 2009)
The Wailers: a Family Man affair Books on Bob Marley are a dime a dozen, but here comes one with a difference. Wailin’ Blues: The Story...
Junot Díaz: the wao factor
Junot Díaz was born on New Year’s Eve, 1968 in a barrio of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. When he was six he relocated with...
Where east meets west
Gleaming statues of Vishnu; marble elephants with trunks upturned; racks of sherwanis, saris and kurtas proffered by beaming traders;...
