Arts

Roland “Remy” Yearwood posted Five to YouTube on May 5 (http://ow.ly/kXrtn) and since then the five-minute video has begun to attract buzz and no shortage of chuckles. It’s a little bit rapso, a little bit kaiso, a little bit cartoon and truly cool...

In the best week for a wide-ranging film choice since BC on TV began last September, Wednesday could, by itself, have filled all three of the week’s choice slots (Hard Candy, 5.45 pm MaxW, Insomnia, 7.45 pm MaxW, The Crying Game, 10 pm TCM).

As a member of the buzz-generating DJ outfit Major Lazer, Trinidadian Chris Leacock interacts regularly with pop music stars.

An impressive also-ran list today includes the better version of The Prestige (The Illusionist, 11 am MaxW), the still-very-watchable Christopher Reeve Superman (1 pm MaxW, with Part II following immediately after), what may be the strongest African...

In January, actress and playwright Marjuan Canady took the warmth of the islands to the Washington DC winter when her play Callaloo: A Jazz Folk Tale opened at the Ellington Theatre.

Under the Trees at the Normandie, St Ann’s, on April 27, two writers received the premier prizes of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest and the validation of the local and international literary world.

The first day of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2013, April 25, turned out to be a metaphor for how much T&T folk and Caribbean people in general cope with painful situations by using humour.

The Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference (EWWC) debates hosted by the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest did not live up to the reputation of that first seminal Edinburgh Writers Conference in 1962, which reportedly went on for hours and featured passionate and...