Ah childhood. Seems like only thirty (or so) years ago when my biggest worry was the precarious hierarchal politics of the schoolyard where kids who carried briefcases to school were sadistically beaten with sticks.
Yes, those were the good old days, when the worst thing that could happen was to return to the bike rack […]
Just back from BK, I´d like to share a nice cozy spot which was recommended to us as a “wicked bar where I sometimes spin reggae tunes” by Neil Nice, a friend working at TurnTableLab.
Like many in the Caribbean Brazilian photojournalist Eduardo Martino has a fascination with Cuba. Last year the London-based Martino made the trip to Havana - after Castro had gone in for treatment and later, out of the Presidency - to document ordinary Cubans attempting to solve food supply shortages and the looming worldwide increase in […]
People like Stefan Simikich. He’s the sort of person who you could leave in any part of the world and he would fit right in without ever showing up on the radar as an outsider.
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 […]
Reverend Al Sharpton, New York, May 30, 2008.
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 […]
Jahsir Rickards, 2 1/2 years old. Brooklyn, New York April 2008
Our German friends at seen. tipped us off about Toddla T. T’s selected at a bunch of hipster clubs and makes solid, Dancehall-influenced music from unlikely Sheffield, North England.
But then again, foreigners’ obsession with the music goes far and sometimes do it better, if a little differently. His other influences include Zouk, Tropical and 2-step […]
One of the great causalities of colonialism in the Caribbean has been the reporting of news from the region, particularly as it relates to our neighbours to the northeast on the island of Haiti. To those who know better, the constant mistreatment of Haiti and Haitians in the local and international media is something to […]
