Once again, this year Caribbean Beat and its sister publication at MEP, Discover Trinidad & Tobago, have partnered with the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival (TTFF). The annual festival is a celebration of the best new and recent films from and about the Caribbean and the diaspora. Films are being screened at venues around Trinidad …
Author: Caroline Taylor
Facebook alert! ;-)
"Tomorrow, Facebook will change its privacy settings to allow Mark Zuckerberg to come into your house while you sleep and eat your brains with a grapefruit spoon. To stop this from happening go to Account> Home Invasion Settings> Cannibalism> Brains, and uncheck the “Tasty” box. [He will also charge you $$$ for the pleasure.] Please …
Social Media Success Seminar this Saturday
That title wasn't meant to be an alliteration, but it happened to work out that way!This Saturday 20th August, the Kimono Company is presenting a seminar on social media, called Social Media Success: A Seminar. Myself, Kayode James, Karel McIntosh, Simone Sant-Ghuran, and Douglas Ames will all be presenting on various aspects of social media. …
SOS: Saving Tobago’s turtles | Caribbean Beat
Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2011 It’s 4 am. Weary volunteers from Save Our Sea Turtles (SOS Tobago) have been patrolling the beaches since 8 pm the night before, ensuring that the evening’s nesting turtles and their hatchlings go undisturbed by poachers, predators, or even fascinated onlookers. In another 90 minutes or so, the …
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Break a leg to the RENT and West Side Story folks!
Tried to tag you all in a regular ole status, but was rudely rebuffed by Facebook for too many tags... So now I shall just write a little more to justify the note. 😉 All that to say, in bocca al lupo guys! West Side Story and RENT are two of my favourite musicals ever …
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My Carnival 2011 soca picks
There's a lot of good music out there this year, methinks. These are my favourites for 2K11. Would love to hear yours, since I'm sure there are any I haven't heard, forgot, or should revisit! 🙂 So in alphabetical order, but categorised a la Soca Monarch...except for a list of things I'm ashamed to say are …
Review: Blood and Gifts (2010) at the National Theatre | ArtsHub UK
The was originally published on ArtsHub (UK) as “Blood & Gifts” at London’s National Theatre The saying goes that those who ignore history are bound to repeat it. And it would seem that 150 years of failed Western attempts at gaining the upper hand in Afghanistan was not enough to dissuade British, Russian or American and …
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Reason to blog… Williams College makes an alum proud
I'm not great at blogging regularly here (this is the first one, in fact!). Just managed to scrape this site together last month – as MySpace endures multiple efforts at resuscitation – and it's high time for an opening blog. The existing blog entries are actually transfers from my old sporadic MySpace blog... Whatever blogging …
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Caroline Taylor 