The Scene

She calls herself the legendary Chutney queen of Guyana who is proud to represent her country anywhere she goes.

The fourth week of SASOD’s film festival Painting the Spectrum 2012 screens films from India, Thailand and Ireland.

Renowned Guyanese playwright Ronald Hollingsworth promises that patrons will leave the National Cultural Centre in “stitches” and “tears” when his latest production $83 Million Gees unfolds tonight and tomorrow.

The Indian Cultural Centre screens the film Traffic Signal today from 5.30 pm at its Lot 67 New Haven, Bel Air, George-town location.

By Jairo Rodrigues She’s beautiful, she’s sassy and she’s now a million-dollar dancer.

So it ended just the way I had expected: Nadata, Dominic and Patricia as 1, 2 and 3 after a phenomenal evening of performances by some of Guyana’s best.

Hits and Jams Entertainment is about ready to elect its representative to the Ms Jamzone International Pageant slated for August – well not quite.

Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) in its ongoing support of the region’s creative industry will select three of the participating designers at the just concluded Caribbean Fashion Week (CFW) 2012 to showcase pieces of their collection in a live catwalk in London.

Carib Feedback Productions Company will stage Ras Leon Saul’s play Shango & Da Golden Scheme on Emancipation weekend.

Painting the Spectrum 8, SASOD’s LBGT annual film festival continues in its third week tomorrow at 7 pm at the Sidewalk Cafe in Middle Street, Georgetown with a special Father’s Day tribute.

(EUR) R&B singer/songwriter Ne-Yo, at the tender age of 32, was inducted on Thursday into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City at its 43rd annual induction.

By Jairo Rodrigues Jamzone Summer Break is just around the corner and Jovan Krystal Wilson, who appeared as the observing judge on GT&T’s Feel the Beat Dance Competition, and is the reigning Ms Guyana-Jamzone is just about ready to give up her crown.

Boys have swagger, men have class, or so they say, but it seems today some men are boys and their male children are doomed to the same fate.

Painting the Spectrum 8, SASOD’s LBGT annual film festival continues this week with Pariah, Difficult Love, I am, and Tomboy at the Sidewalk Café tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday from 7 pm each day.

Horizon Arts Production (HAP) will stage its fourth Annual Fathers’ Night cultural programme on Father’s Day, June 17, at 8 pm at the Theatre Guild Playhouse, Kingston.

Apsara returns to the National Cultural Centre next Saturday, with its show dubbed ‘An Exotic Era of Dance’.

Guyana Model Search (GMS)/Designers’ Portfolio (DP) hits the streets of Georgetown today and tomorrow with two public events geared at bringing attention to the scourge of domestic violence and other societal issues as well as publicizing the July 1 event at Isika.

Top Guyanese actress Mariatha Causway aka Jennifer Thomas will launch a spoken word CD next Wednesday at the Water Chris Hotel, Waterloo Street.

As her “Where Have You Been” bounds 11-9 on the Billboard Hot 100, Rihanna returns to a place where she has been 21 times before: the chart’s top 10.