Entertainment

THE LAWNS of the Two Seasons Guest House in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, will come alive June 19 for the south-coast leg of the International Jamaica Ocho Rios Jazz Festival.The venue will form the backdrop for the cool...

WARSAW, Poland (AP): Prominent United States Republican Newt Gingrich - a recent convert to Catholicism - is in Poland promoting a documentary he co-produced on Pope John Paul II's role in defeating communism....

People are still talking about the Sex and the City 2 party thrown by the NCB team last week.

Members of the entertainment fraternity, family, friends and well-wishers turned out in droves at Church On the Rock on Saturday to pay their final respects to a beloved entertainer....

Vogue's Style.com named her one of the stars to watch at this season's New York Fashion Week. Now, as her first Vogue hits news stands worldwide, Pulse's fast-rising supermodel Sedene Blake heads to Jamaica for Caribbean Fashionweek, scheduled for June 15-21.

Ironically, the audience that whooped and hollered in the Dennis Scott Studio Theatre on Friday night did not see probably the most anticipated segments of the show they were a part of recording.

For more than 20 years, singjay Franko has recorded for several high-profile producers with minimum success, but a song warning youth against a life in crime may have helped him turn the corner...

Nadine Sutherland is one of the most successful Jamaican female singers of her generation. The now-famous 'cougar' is a veteran with more than two decades of hits under her belt.

Tivoli Gardens, it seems, is never out of the news - and not only for extradition orders and allegations of tunnels and weapons caches. Before the recent clash between gunmen and the security forces, the last major news about the near-mythical west Kingston community was the 'peace performance' of Vybz Kartel and Mavado at west Kingston Jamboree 2010 in December.

On Wednesday, June 2, at the Carib 5, divas and fashionistas got all dolled up for a night that promised to be a true red-carpet extravaganza. It was the premiere of Sex and the City 2. Sponsored by Smirnoff, specially invited guests were treated to Smirnoff cocktails throughout the premiere. Many of those cocktails had patrons oohing and ahhhing about the varied mixes.

To be mentioned in a popular song, much less be its central focus, is a sure route to being indelibly scripted into history. It is an outgrowth of a natural part of dancehall, the paying of respect to the organiser.

In a violent society where the perceived order of the day is for persons to trample on each other, there are still those who are kind enough to reach out to the needy and seek to bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots.