Posts Tagged ‘tivoli gardens’

First Magazine on the BBC, again.

First footage. First linkage. First, First First!
Tivoli…you large.
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7375039.stm

Jim Brown is still dead, isn’t he?

Photograph: Busy Signal, Peter Dean Rickards
And so, it would seem, is Lester Lloyd Coke, as Jim Brown was identified in dozens of U.S. and Jamaican police files. Still, on walls all around Kingston, the graffiti say FREE JIM BROWN, the alias he rode to the top of the Jamaican capital’s drug -fueled slums. To his [...]

Death in Tivoli Gardens

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 [...]

Thursday Night at the Fights Main Event: Leo Versus Kong

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. After he punched the chicken foot soup out of his last opponent a few weeks ago it appeared for [...]

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