The Scene

Carly Rae Jepsen tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a fifth week with “Call Me Maybe,” while Nicki Minaj’s “Starships” has logged its first 21 weeks in the top 10, establishing a new record.

(Billboard) – Less than a day after it was announced that Steven Tyler would be leaving his gig as a judge on “American Idol” — to focus on his music and his band, Aerosmith — People.com

By Jairo Rodrigues Who has the moves like Jagger? Dominic Alleyne and he has $500,000 to prove it.

Walking on Sunshine, the Better Living/Guyana Model Search/Designers Portfolio event by the Sonia Noel Foundation for Creative Arts, concluded last weekend at Stanley Ming’s development site, Isika, East Bank Essequibo, south of Parika.

“Tun up” has become the new buzz line. The ‘song’, if it can be called that, by Baby Cham featuring his wife, ‘O’ (what kind of name is that?)

Phed X has raised the bar once again, now with the release of the music video to his hit song “Welcome to Guyana”, which has gone viral.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pop star Rihanna has sued her former accountants for mismanaging the singer’s finances, including claiming they earned huge commissions from concert tours that resulted in her losing millions of dollars.

‘People love drama and dance. It’s always about telling stories, not just movement. 

What do you have planned for the vacation season ahead? Walking on the warm, sunny beaches of the Caribbean?

Donna Ramsammy James’s designs have had recent successful showings in Solivita, Florida and London, England.

Grammy award-winning artiste, Sean Paul, continues to wave the Jamaican flag high, stamping his dominant Jamaican sound in Europe this summer.

Painting the Spectrum 2012 concludes next week with three films—Weekend, The Kids are All Right and Kickoff—and an open mic evening.

American television and film actress Anna Maria Horsford, Christopher McNair of Caribbean Export, Steven Cutting of FIT, Jean Pierre Begon, Vice President Elite International and international photographer Donn Thompson will be on the judging panel for tomorrow evening’s model search final at Isika.

“I ain’t going in fuh that”, a song that copped the third spot at this year’s Mash junior Calyspo Competition was recently recorded and the songwriter,  Pearl `Precious Pearl’ Lewis is now seeking public help to have a video made.

The Guyana Government has come out swinging at the US State Department’s report on trafficking in persons in Guyana calling it a “difficult pill to swallow” and a report that is not factual since the architects did not make “significant progress in improving the veracity, coherence and validity of their annual assessments.”

By Jairo Rodrigues Just back from three consecutive shows in three different countries–Tobago Fashion Week, Caribbean Heritage Month Celebration in Atlanta and Caribbean Fashion Week in Jamaica which is the premier fashion event in the region—Sonia Noel is doing it again today at an event hosted by US Ambassador to Guyana Brendt Hardt and his wife Saskia at their home to spotlight domestic violence.

So what do you think of men wearing their pants below their hips?

Guyana’s fashion is being taken to the international arena yet again and this time it’s via designer Pamela Fox, who has been invited by J Model Management Agency to be part of a show in Paris, France on July 30.