Archive for the ‘Features’ Category

Buzzed

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

Cable Hut Beach, Jamaica. 2007



Party at Alligator Pond

By Julius • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Features

Smoked marlin, ricotta spring rolls, jerk rosemary tenderloin with bearnaise sauce and a 50th birthday party on the idyllic south coast near Alligator Pond, St Elizabeth.
It’s not every day one lives to half a century, but if you do, make sure the food makes you glad that you made the journey.

Photography by Peter Dean Rickards



Nightmare on North Street

By First • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Features

At first glance it looks like the exterior of a typical daycare, but if you happen to be stopped at the traffic lights on the corner of North Street and Hanover (directly across from The Gleaner building in Downtown Kingston)



The Trouble with Clovis

By Ross Sheil • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Features

Photographs by Peter Dean Rickards

The cartoonist of the Jamaica Observer newspaper, Clovis Brown’s daily musings have been distressing politicians since the 1980’s. Other times they are happily ordering their likenesses from him. Originally inspired by Conan the Barbarian - yes, the cartoon that was made into the Arnie movie - Clovis is really a nice […]



Last (Thursday) Night at the Fights: The Video

By First • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Features

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



Death in Tivoli Gardens

By JJ • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Features

Photography by Peter Dean Rickards

The pictures don’t say enough, there is blood splattered on the walls, there are holes through the windows and marrow on the floor, they are gruesome, but they are not enough. It is the smell that lingers, that which struck us most upon entering that house, that smell, like meat left […]



A Beautiful Nerd

By Peter Dean Rickards • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: Features

Remember that girl in grade 6 who’s head you used to pound with chalkbrush erasers?
The one with the funny name whose lunch smelled.
The geek who would sit alone in the corner of the cafeteria, eating fried bologna and chocolate milk; stopping every now and then to peer nervously over her thick Coca-Cola bottle eyeglasses as […]



Thursday Night at the Fights Main Event: Leo Versus Kong

By Peter Dean Rickards • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Features

So, after four weeks of wild entertainment at Kingston’s best kept secret, Thursday Night at the Fights, those who’ve been following the scores know that reigning champion Leo has been hard pressed to find a challenger.



Wooden tricycle drive-by at 2 am

By Peter Dean Rickards • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Features

Kingston, 2 am
Saw these lunatics on the way back from the fights on Friday morning after the champ sent Kong to the hospital.



David Houncheringer: Are you ready to die today?

By Peter Dean Rickards • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Features

Every now and then a photographer shows up on the radar that just makes you wonder what the hell he/she was thinking. This time around we can blame the Swiss. His name is David Houncheringer.