The Scene

By Oluatoyin Alleyne Pearl Lewis also known as ‘Precious Pearl’ is fighting to win this year’s calypso crown but she is also fighting to boot a contestant out of this year’s Carib Soca Monarch competition on an accusation that the woman has stolen the words of a song she originally wrote.

Culture Box As a little girl, I tramped through endless slushy mud during the rainy seasons on weekday mornings.

Hi Everyone, Ever since Guy Fieri, of Food Network Television visited Pam’s Kitchen in Seattle, Washington, on his Diners, Drive-ins and Dives show, I have been bombarded with questions and recipe requests for Trini Pelau – one of the main dishes featured.

Mark your calendars. It’s Link Show time again. The annual satirical review opens on February 20 at the National Cultural Centre at 8 pm.

Guyanese-born Canadian poet Janet Naidu will launch her new collection Sacred Silence at the Umana Yama on Monday at 5.30 pm.

By Rawle Toney Reigning Carib Soca Monarch Shellon ‘Shelly-G’ Garraway is asking where is her competition for this year’s event since she believes that her tune this year “All That” really is all that and will see her holding on to the coveted title.

From February 15 to 20, Norman Vieira will be holding a special exhibition at the National Museum to display his “exotic jewellery” made from animal skins. 

Slingshot is hitting the road this year for the country’s 40th Republic celebrations and is mashing under an environmentally friendly theme.

Next week’s Classic Tuesday’s presentation at the National Gallery, Castellani House is Merchant-Ivory’s A Room With A View.

Next Tuesday, Sidewalk Café screens The Blind Side the Oscar nominated 2009 drama–sports film starring Quinton Aaron and Sandra Bullock.

The Indian Cultural Centre Film Club invites interested members of the public to a screening of Black at the Indian Cultural Centre, in New Haven, Bel Air today at 5.30 pm.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – A thematically ambitious drama about television news and its manipulation by corporate and political interests, and by the ever-more-desperate race for ratings, Rann (Battle) has none of the Bollywood musical trappings that stateside audiences have come to expect as the default.

– eyes entry to adult competition in 2011 By Iana Seales Abigail James, the reigning junior calypso monarch, had her song to do battle and was even fired up about defending a crown she worked years to win, but this will not happen this year.

I don’t get it. What is it about Caribbean people, men mostly, and cricket.

Hi Everyone, Last week we looked at the what, where, who and how of a food label.

The state of local calypso had been debated for several years, it is crippled and the current crop has failed to inject much life into the art form.

– semi-finals on tonight in Linden By Rawle Toney It is that time of the year again when the country’s Soca artists vie for a chance to called King or Queen of the up-tempo genre as the Carib Soca Monarch beats off at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground in Linden this evening with the staging of its semi-finals.

– by appointment only Cosmetologist Pamela Dillon, long regarded as the ‘woman with the touch’, has returned to the scene years after a premature exit to offer exclusive salon services “with a twist”.

Friends and colleagues in the entertainment business of comedian and actor Henry Rodney will come together tomorrow night to cool the blaze that totally destroyed Rodney’s home earlier this month in the form a benefit concert to assist in the rebuilding process.