The Scene

(BBC) The homes and offices of two Bollywood actresses have been raided by India’s income tax officials in Mumbai, officials said.

Akinsanya Anikulafo Mwanza beat his first drum when he was two years old, and since that day the rhythms have invoked a passion in him rarely seen among children so young.

Passion and power; they can both make us a little bit crazy perhaps.

Power drunk

Hits and Jams, as usual, is taking first jump on Mashramani activities this year and will kick things off with the first of several concerts next weekend.

Nelsion Nurse, the designer who stitched up a win as the most promising designer of Guyana Fashion Weekend last year was recently honoured along with his runners-up.

The Indian Cultural Centre Film Club will screen Deepa Mehta’s Water today at 5:30 pm at the Indian Cultural Centre in New Haven, Bel Air.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Season 10 of American Idol premiered Wednesday to much fanfare and for good reason: two new judges, rocker Steven Tyler and pop star Jennifer Lopez, sat at the table ruled by Simon Cowell for so many years.

(EUR) There’s just something about the film A Star is Born that makes Hollywood want to keep remaking it over and over.

At 22 Kian Jabour has big dreams like so many other young men but instead of sitting and allowing his big ideas to float around he has taken the giant step and moved into a relatively new business in Guyana–a mobile bar.

Have I really made a difference? Do I make a difference?

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – If an average woman can spend hours ruminating over an outfit, imagine what a star goes through choosing a look for a red carpet like the one at the Golden Globes.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Tyler Perry received a whopping 19 NAACP nominations Wednesday.

Nadia Jabour is a creator and it is safe to say that she uses any and everything she puts her hand on to lovingly create pieces of jewellery that bring satisfaction to her customers.

Tuesdays are not my best days, but I am beginning to reason that if interesting things are incorporated into the day things would pick-up, interesting enough like poetry readings over a glass of wine.

I woke up two days ago to find that the Christmas pepperpot was on “its last”, as my sister would say, and realized that the season just came and went.

Have you any standards?

Classic Tuesdays, the monthly presentation by the National Gallery opens the year with  Yojiro Takita’s Departures next week.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Twilight again stole the limelight at the People’s Choice awards on Wednesday, on a night that also saw big wins for singer Katy Perry and actor Johnny Depp at the start of the Hollywood awards season.