The entertainment industry is mourning the loss of heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, who died on Tuesday at the age of 76. Best known as the frontman of Black Sabbath, Osbourne was hailed as a pioneer of rock and metal, as tributes poured in from...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the UN cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the US further retreating from international organisations. The decision to pull US...
Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. "...
The Associated Press The death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at just 54 was mourned by fans and admirers of the actor, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable on the landmark series The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992 and also starred on the...
Owen Gray, the pioneering singer who is often hailed as “Jamaica’s first home-grown star”, passed away on Sunday morning at his home in England. Gray’s lifelong friend, Anthony ‘Chips’ Richards, confirmed to The Gleaner that the 86-year-old...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP): Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said. Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said. Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation...
PARIS (AP): Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist, Josephine Baker, with a new mural. Fifty years after her death, Baker now gazes out over a diverse neighbourhood of northeast Paris, thanks to urban...
International dancehall superstar Sean Paul continues to champion the power of music education by donating more than $1.5 million to Food For the Poor (FFP) Jamaica’s Band Camp initiative – a programme that offers musical training and life skills...
The local entertainment practitioners and aspirants are about to gain insight on the music industry’s evolution with the launch of ‘Music Mastery: Empowering the Sound Industry’, a one-day workshop designed to provide practical knowledge, creative...
Veteran entertainment journalist and television host Winford Williams is in stable condition in hospital after he was involved in a motor vehicle crash on Sunday morning. Williams is currently being treated at Cornwall Regional Hospital in...
OnStage host and veteran entertainment journalist Winford Williams is currently receiving medical care following a vehicular accident involving members of his team. In a statement posted to the official @onstagetv Instagram account, Williams...
The crowd at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex in Montego Bay stood in anticipation in the early hours of Sunday morning as they waited for international headline act, R...
Saturday night marked the first time in nine years that the Anointed Bugle performed for fans at the Caribbean's biggest reggae festival, Reggae Sumfest, and it was straight fire. Fans online flooded the live chat with fire emojis, while inside...
At 9:53 p.m. on Saturday, the energetic flagman for Rastafarian reggae-dancehall artiste Fantan Mojah cleared a path for him to enter centre-stage on Night Two of Reggae Sumfest in Catherine Hall, Montego Bay. With the experienced Warrior Love...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tommy Lee Sparta had high praise for Vybz Kartel following his coronation as king of dancehall. “Him more dan deserve di title. Di man come change dancehall and kick weh Afrobeats. Dancehall a run di place right now — and a Kartel...
The room hushed with anticipation as Desmond ‘Actor Boy’ Dennis took a sip of water, then leaned into the mic to read the opening lines of Chapter 15 from The Young Warriors by V.S. Reid. A few members of the small audience, relaxed on bean bags...
“Oh, no! What’s going on?” the nine-year-old boy screamed, horrified at the events depicted in the dance on the stage of The Little Theatre. His mother clapped a hand over his eyes, and the older boy beside him tried to comfort him, explaining, “...
Reggae Sumfest is promising to implement "additional crowd control and safety measures" for the remainder of the festival following an incident which led to a stampede on Saturday morning. Festival Night One of the event ended in chaos inside the...
More than 13 years since he last graced the Reggae Sumfest stage, Adidjah ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer made a thunderous return — this time to claim the crown. It was a full circle moment for the dancehall icon as he was crowned king of the dancehall at...
As if his world-class performance wasn’t enough, dancehall entertainer Govana brought the house down with an unforgettable surprise during his set at Reggae Sumfest — gifting his mother, Sonia Eccleston, a brand-new Honda CR-V on stage. “You grow...
The atmosphere at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre in Montego Bay was electric as dancehall crooner D’Yani poured his heart into every note on the Reggae Sumfest stage. While the singer initially kept it simple with feel-good songs like...
There’s no doubt that Superman has had a worldwide impact. The character’s story has been told and retold countless times in different forms of media, spawning imitators, deviants, and all manner of offshoots that have muddled the message. The last...
WESTERN BUREAU: On Thursday night, Reggae Sumfest turned the spotlight on international artistry during its first-ever Global Fete, a celebration of global musical fusion that brought unforgettable energy to the Catherine Hall Stadium. The night...
