The Scene

When Guyanese international superstar Eddy Grant celebrates his 61st birthday on March 5, he will possibly be doing what he does best, rocking a concert in South Africa.

When Shellon ‘Shelly G’ Garraway won this year’s Carib Soca Monarch, she capped off an acclaimed comeback and put any doubt about her claims to the crown to rest.

Culture Box It was just about two weeks ago that we first visited the painful denigration of soca in the Caribbean.

Hi Everyone,  I was 17, it was my first job and someone in the office innocently asked what each of us had for breakfast that morning.

Victory is indeed sweet for Lester Charles. Last Saturday the singer, who goes by the stage name “The Professor”, captured the 2009 Mashramani Calypso crown, which can only be described as just reward for years of hard toil and dedication.

Manic dancer, Travis Bowen Travis Bowen is one of the few Classique dancers who can boast of being young and particularly good, as well as crazy enough to do weird aerobatics others would hardly attempt.

Culture Box Hollywood, in fact all of LA, the music industry and fans worldwide have been knocked for six at the recent “news” that the fresh-faced, likeable American singing and dancing phenomenon Chris Brown might have physically abused his girlfriend, Barbados-born pop-star Rihanna.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I come before you with my head bowed for I have flirted, cheated and obsessed about things other than my self-confessed true love: curry.

Barbadian Soca sensation Allison Hinds has promised that those patrons who turn out next Saturday at the National Park will be truly entertained. 

Tomorrow night the new Carib soca monarch will be crowned at the National Park and it will likely be one of the singers with the “wining up” songs, as one of the contestants put it; there are just too many of those songs.

– expected to pick up this weekend With corporate interest fading this year Mashramani 2009 got off to a slow start and events are rolling out with little or no publicity, but interest will likely peak this weekend when Carib crowns a new soca monarch and the calypso tempo hits fever pitch.

Couples who want to spend their Valentine’s night doing something special can wine, dine, dance  and be entertained at Duke Lodge tonight for a mere $10,000.

Not since Lady Tempest stormed into the calypso finals and won the crown a few years ago has a female calypsonian looked as good as Calypso Stella.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, For almost two decades I have not touched or tasted a sweet and sour dish.

Cuture Box It’s that time of the year again, when the lure of Ansa McAl cash prompts a rush of ‘talent’ to the soca stage.

The battle for the $750,000 first prize in the soca monarch competition is now down to 12 entries and most of them are promising fiery and explosive performances at the National Park come February 15.

If her song is anything to go by, Trini women had better watch out; local calypsonians too.

Pride and Prejudice is February’s Classic Tuesdays event at the National Gallery, Castellani House next week.