Carnival Calendar (1992)
For many visitors to the region, the Caribbean is Carnival, a festive time of costumed parades and pageants, music and dance, fun and...
Bookshelf (Spring 1992)
POETRY Leaving the Dark Cecil Gray (Lilibel Publications, 1998; ISBN 0-9681745-1-5) This collection of poems by Cecil Gray, his third, is a...
Last-minute mas
Feathers are in vogue for this year’s Carnival, but Richard “Ashraph” Ramsaran isn’t exactly following that trend. Though his band...
Rachel Price: it started in the kitchen
If celebrities can actually cook, it makes them seem more like us ordinary folks. When T&T entertainer Rachel Price updated her...
Trinidad All Stars: Fleet’s In
The Fleet’s In sailor mas might seem just a grown-up way of enjoying Carnival with a great steelband, Trinidad All Stars. Actually,...
Monitoring the mas
Peering at grainy images of Trinidad & Tobago mas bands on your computer is one way to ignore the fact that you’re shivering through...
Bands of the year
If you didn’t get the memo, it’s probably too late. Many Carnival bands have been sold out since last September (never mind some...
Kees Dieffenthaller: bigger, better, crazier, sexier
Kees Dieffenthaller wants a Grammy. He’s by no means the first singer from Trinidad & Tobago to express that desire, but, Machel...
