Archive for the ‘Features’ Category

First recommends: See Jamaica away from the crowds

By First • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Features

For those who might get bored sharing the same square feet of beach with the same lardy sunbathers day-in, day-out: Kingston and surrounding area > Portland > Treasure Beach. It’s idiot proof and you’ll leave feeling like you actually experienced the country, lying on the beach included.

Kingston: Place to be
Kingston is the capital of the […]



The Girl next door is Dead

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Features

Model: Cindy Wright

Nobody likes a goody-twoshoes, especially if they drink nothing but bottled water and won’t to help you steal a car (even if you really, really need one).
They cry when you kick the dog or push Grandfather down the stairs, and they’re always spoiling things with their everlasting advise; just when you’re starting to […]



Last (Thursday) Night at the Fights: The Video

By First • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Features

You’ve seen the photographs and read the background. Now here’s the video.



The Iron Man

By Annie Paul • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Features

Photography by Peter Dean Rickards

Christopher Irons is a critic’s worst nightmare.



First Magazine vs. Director Jason Kohn (Manda Bala)

By Peter John Rickards • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Features

First Magazine interviews Jason Kohn (Mandabala): Part 1(of 3) from firstjamaica on Vimeo.
Sometime last fall while visiting New York City, me and my cousin decided to go see a movie.
By good fortune we happened across Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) which turned out to be a visually stunning film with an equally impressive soundtrack that […]



Greasy Independence on Coney Island

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Features

July 4, Coney Island, New York.
It’s a muggy 90 degrees near Rockaway beach when I finally made it to the front of Nathan’s Famous on Surf Avenue. I had just missed the annual hot dog eating contest ( defending champion Joey Chestnut won in overtime) and there was a huge wad purple chewing gum stuck […]



The Random Red Door

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features

Standing near the intersection of Church and Chambers street in Manhattan, I noticed a bright brick wall and a old door that obviously hadn’t been used in years. It’s about 6 in the afternoon and the sun is going down, casting shadows on everything, except for the red door and about ten feet of sidewalk […]



One face, eight pictures

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features

Noella Arnold, Norbrook. June 21, 2008



An orange dress, a brown bench and a black girl

By Biggy Bigz • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Features

Simple.



The Sandbox

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Features

Sand (that’s his name). Tuesday June 17, 2008 at The Rocktower, West Street, Kingston.