Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
Published: Monday Sunday | March 22, 2009
Sunday Sauce - Rihanna and the piranha
Life can be bittersweet, and the things you talk and sing about can return to haunt you and manifest themselves in strange ways. For instance, look at Rihanna, the Bajan, who has been making a name for herself internationally, more for her looks than for her singing talent. Read More...
Literary arts - The Boozer
The music was sweet and the atmosphere, mellow. The food was good and plenty and so was the rum. Amidst subdued giggles and much good-natured ribbing, the guests toasted the Connollys as they celebrated the anniversary of their wedding. Allan thanked them loudly and laughed uproariously at an unfunny joke he had made. Read More...
Literary arts - Vigilante justice
They stood there with the first rays of the sun glaring angrily at them, the tell-tale tools of their gruesome act still clutched in their hands. Now guilt was written all over their faces. They wished that the dreadful deed could be retracted, but alas, that was not possible. Read More...
'Story of Wolmer's Girls' ready to hit bookshelves
The Wolmer's Girls' Alumnae, formerly Wolmer's Old Girls' Association, will celebrate 100 years of service to the school and society with the launch on April 20 of a new history of the school called, In the Light of the Sun, the Story of Wolmer's Girls School." Read More...
Excerpt from the Jamaica Journal - Lady Saw - raunchy artiste!
The flamboyant exhibitionist DJ Lady Saw epitomises the sexual liberation of many African Jamaican working-class women from airy-fairy Judaeo-Christian definitions of appropriate female behaviour. Read More...