I'm grateful to have a very full life, so actually watch much fewer TV shows and movies and read far far fewer books than I'd like. But when I want to escape into other worlds and decompress from my own (though sometimes these other worlds leave me more agitated than I'd been before I tuned …
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Caribbean Hollywood | Caribbean Beat
Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat Magazine (May/June 2015) It was sixty-five years ago that Cyrano de Bergerac was released, a film that would make Puerto Rican actor José Ferrer the first Caribbean person to win an Oscar (for best actor in a leading role, 1951). He also won a Golden Globe, and a Tony award for the Broadway …
Giving a meme interview
I'm late on posting this, but a few months ago some colleagues at the new arts & media outfit, A Big Box of Crayons, interviewed me for their "20 shades of crayon" series. You can read the full interview here. The good folks over at the Trinidad & Tobago Performing Arts Network picked up the story...and …
Clockwise Grenada | Caribbean Beat
Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2014 Like many Eastern Caribbean islands, Grenada is small enough to explore on a day-trip, taking in many of the island’s most engaging sights, views, and attractions while following the hour hand of the clock, before the sun goes down. If you want maximum flexibility and …
Party done! Musings on Trinidad Carnival 2014
Another Trinidad Carnival has come and gone. And it has left me with many more questions than answers. I'll start with the most benign. On a lighter note: masquerader tips, tricks...and lessons Toe pads do not work. At least not for me. Though, maybe my toes would be even worse without them. Kinesio tape rocks. …
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An interview with SOS Tobago’s Tanya Clovis and Giancarlo Lalsingh | Discover T&T
Originally written for and published in Discover Trinidad & Tobago magazine in 2013 SOS Tobago is one of the islands’ most vibrant community-based conservation groups. Over two print editions, Discover interviewed some of its team members. SOS president Tanya Clovis grew up in Tobago and returned home after studying at university abroad. According to her, she was in the right …
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Pragmatism vs idealism…or something
I am at odds. On the one hand are the succinct, sage but fatalistic words of Trini (West Indian? African diaspora? Universal?) sayings like: "Like who like you" "Bat in yuh crease" "Goat doh make sheep" And the blood-chilling end to the fable that lives in different incarnations in different parts of the world (the …
“Theatre is life, film is art, TV is furniture”
I think it's nearly 10 years I've been trying to decide whether I agree with this! I first heard it said by Phylicia Rashad on a New York TV station, and I've been mulling it ever since. I thought I disagreed with it, actually thinking film was more life-like and theatre more "artful" – at …
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