The Scene

Designer Andrew Harris has named a Barbadian male model as the face of his clothing line following a recent media blitz to find someone who best represents the brand.

The Guyana Fashion Weekend (GFW) committee has announced that auditions are to be held next month and the theme for this year continues along the ‘going green’ concept from two years ago.

Tomorrow, the Guyana Music Teachers Association annual concert, ‘Musicians on Stage’ will be held at the Marian Academy Auditorium, Carifesta Avenue.

The SASOD film festival, Painting the Spectrum 6, continues at Sidewalk Café next week with the programme “Coming Out Stories” which features stories of people who confront their sexuality and then let family and others now.

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde is a go-getter. She’s a fulfilled actress, musician, mother of four lovely children and wife to a man she fondly calls ‘honey boy’.

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Usher maintained his perch atop the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a fourth non-consecutive week on Thursday with “OMG,” featuring will.i.am.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Oprah Winfrey will be among the five women honored with this year’s Minerva Awards by California First Lady Maria Shriver.

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is hoping to use the glitz of a Bollywood awards ceremony to emerge from the devastation of a quarter century war and re-build its image among global travellers as a serene, sun-bathed Indian Ocean island.

“She doesn’t stand out in a crowd//She might not merit a second glance//But to me, she’s a treasure//And I’ll tell the world that she’s something//She’s something//She’s something of value…” Wherever the opening bars of this song is played, Guyanese, especially those who enjoy ‘oldies’ will come up with the name Mark Holder.

As a younger writer in the grandest cake-shop of this great land of ours, I visit nice conference rooms, muddy farms and notorious ghettos to gather the ingredients for our irresistible masterpieces.

Hi Everyone, This morning I woke up early as usual but I was unusually ravenous.

It is expected to be an exotic night with a different flavour when the University of Guyana Medical School Association hosts Arabian Night at the Mojos Cocktail Lounge on Main Street on June 6.

Expect piano, violin, trumpet, sax, pan, solos, duets, choirs, dance and perhaps a bit of theatre.

‘Painting the Spectrum’ the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination’s (SASOD) sixth film festival will open next Tuesday at Sidewalk Café with the film Blueprint ; Guyanese born award winning singer Nhojj is also expected to make an appearance.

Genevieve Nnaji is the first of a new cadre of personalities Nigeria is producing.

fans to decide It will either be Tarrus Riley of “Love is Contagious” and “She’s Royal” fame or Gyptian, singer of the now popular “Hold Yuh” who will headline the first summer concert in July but it is left up to fans of the two men to ensure which one it will be.

Floyd Christie picked up an Eminem cassette a few years ago, around the time cassettes were still ‘in’, and decided rap was the sort of outlet he needed to “feel free”.

It’s a cloudy day. Not a very good day to go swimming.