Still in Chicago (BlogHer ended yesterday – was excellent – photos here), and still proving that I’m an even worse blogger when I’m travelling than when I’m at home. In lieu of a conference report/trip update – at least for now – here are a couple of photos I took this afternoon in Millennium Park. [...]
The shuttle took ages to collect us at the hotel this morning, so a bunch of us arrived here at Navy Pier after the introductory session had already begun. Grabbed breakfast and took my seat around one of the round tables in the huge ballroom. They’re expecting at least 750 attendees, and it looked like [...]
“. . . in Trinidad, I was trying to make a song that wasn’t very soca-ish, but I was in a soca environment with soca producers who were having a lot of soca stuff going on. I wasn’t thinking about American clubs at the time, about what sort of stuff they were listening to, what [...]
Cheryl Ali, retail manager of Nigel R Khan Bookseller, is interviewed by a local television station during the launch of Harry Potter 7 It’s only after he puts on the pair of round fake-Italian sunglasses with the slightly reflective lenses that I realise that the figure in the purple cape I’d seen earlier lurking sheepishly [...]
Congratulations to Nicholas “Nikipedia” Laughlin, who just rang from Jamaica to say that he is the 2007 recipient the Rex Nettleford Fellowship in Cultural Studies! Nikipedia travelled to Kingston this week for the interview, which took place today. The results were announced during a luncheon (after the dessert course, apparently) at Red Bones restaurant. Nikipedia, [...]
The Trinis in Toronto Returned from Toronto at 6am this morning and I’m feeling about as well as one should after having spent a sleepless night on an aircraft, so a more detailed report on the 2nd annual Caribbean Tales Film Festival will have to wait. In the meantime, feel free to check out the [...]
I arrived in Toronto today to attend the 2nd annual Caribbean Tales Film Festival, the schedule for which can be found here. The festival starts on Friday, but updates are already being posted to the News from Leda Serene & Caribbean Tales blog. Many thanks to Festival producer Frances-Ann Solomon (plus apologies for not having [...]
Jamaican poet and novelist Kei Miller It’s often said that once you acquire a DSLR and a lens that’s more than a couple of inches long, it’s only a matter of time before you start getting requests to photograph weddings. Fortunately for me, most of my friends are either already married, sworn off marriage, or [...]
