Posts Tagged ‘jamaica’

Girl Friday: Candice McCalla X Lime Cay

FIRST People: Devon Gordon’s art of extreme patience

Artist Devon Gordon. Photography: Biggy Biggz
Driving through Arnett Gardens we noticed a long stretch of graffiti on one side of Greenwich Park Road. Glancing across to the other side we glimpsed this amazing mural, maybe 40-foot long, and stretching from one side of a building to the other.
That being a lazy day we’d actually been [...]

Does anyone in Jamaica actually drink this?

Last year, gay rights groups in the United States chose this as one of the Jamaican products to boycott. Meantime, we don’t know anybody who drinks this local product, locally. Everyone drinks Appleton Special but getting advanced in years means we can appreciate that overproof rum, which, while it may be a lot stronger, still [...]

Ethiopian jazz vs Cirque du Soleil

Our Good German friends at .Seen turned us onto Mulatu Astatke, an Ethiopian jazz musician most recently sampled by Damian Marley and Nas – a case of the original remaining far more compelling than the tune sampling it. Astatke’s work is easy to find for download but first try this: his tune My Gubel as [...]

Cruelty to tourists

When you pack tourists into an all-inclusive they can be persuaded to do pretty much anything, no matter how embarrassing, just as long as they’ve had the right mix of sunburn and free liquor.

Like how Sandals had the genius to persuade generations of tourists to wave like schoolchildren as the planes flew above its flagship [...]

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