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The Father Ho Lung and Friends musical Ruby (also called Ruby Magdalene, to make an analogy with the Magdalene of the Bible) is making its third public appearance. The first two productions were decades ago and many years apart. It has improved...
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Usher has hinted that his Super Bowl half-time performance will feature pole dancers. The 44-year-old Love in This Club singer was announced as the headliner for the show on September 24, and he says he will start working on its choreography and...
Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 6, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the...
Idris Elba has been in therapy for a year after he became a workaholic. The Luther actor, 51, said he spiralled into “unhealthy habits” due to his many roles, which have ranged from acting in Hollywood and television hits to opening a bar and...
Cheers erupted during the grand finale of Digicel Rising Stars as Remone Watson was announced as the Season 19 winner. The audience was proud of the young finalist, a 20-year-old show player at Sandals Montego Bay. But their joy paled in comparison...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Breaks are privileges awarded veteran acts, most often an effect of long-lasting relevancy. The opposite is also true: New acts are rarely given permission to take a beat, or risk slipping into obscurity. The horrible irony is...
NEW YORK (AP): A documentary chronicling Beyoncé’s just-concluded 39-city Renaissance World Tour will premiere in North American theatres on December 1, AMC Theaters announced on Monday. The film adds a second blockbuster from a music superstar to...
Amid an atmosphere pulsating with anticipation and excitement, the 2023 'Digicel Rising Stars' competition reached its thrilling conclusion. In this exhilarating culmination, Remone Watson, a 20-year-old show player at Sandals Montego Bay, emerged...
NEW YORK, NY: Pastor Judith A. Gayle is aiming to take her Miracle World Outreach Ministries to a new level. The award-winning evangelist from Clarendon, Jamaica, will launch her eighth studio album on December 9 at a gala event at the Astoria...
As he prepares to hit the stage in December with a live band on Damian Marley’s Welcome to Jamrock Reggae Cruise, Shinehead is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Jamaican in New York. Much to his credit, the artiste of Jamaican descent impacted...
As a fan of the films District 9, Blade Runner and other dystopian science fiction, I was acutely excited to see The Creator. Then again, having enjoyed Logan and The Last of Us in recent years, Gareth Edwards’ story of a rugged soldier escorting...
LAS VEGAS (AP): The first arrest in the 1996 slaying of Tupac Shakur had its roots in the investigation of the killing of Biggie Smalls. The shooting deaths of the two hip-hop luminaries and rivals — Shakur in Las Vegas and Smalls in Los Angeles...
New york (AP): A New York judge sentenced a woman who pleaded guilty to fatally shoving an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach onto a Manhattan sidewalk to six months more in prison than the eight years that had been previously reached in a plea...
After weeks of thrills, spills and everything in-between, the 19th season of ‘Digicel’s Rising Stars’ comes to a close on Sunday, when the final three battle it out for the top prize. In a conversation with The Sunday Gleaner, producer Sharon...
In November of 2017, Davina Bennett became the second runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant, where she gained local and international attention for participating in an afro. Still, 45 years before Bennett’s celebratory moment regarding the hair...
