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Boom Boom is photographed at A Taste of Sumfest in July. This weekend, the noted selector is heading to Dream Weekend, where he will play at Dream Live.
July 31, 2026

5 Questions With Boom Boom

For more than 30 years, Boom Boom, also known as World Boom and Billboard Selector, has been at the centre of some of dancehall’s biggest moments. Whether behind the turntables, in front of a crowd,…
Funeral director Peter Perry (second left) and Rasheem Cole, Stranger Cole’s grandson, lead the pallbearers as entertainment industry insider Copeland Forbes looks on.
July 31, 2026 by Yasmine Peru

‘More life!’ at Stranger Cole’s thanksgiving service

Chants of “more life!” echoed through the Louise Bennett Garden Theatre on Wednesday morning as family, friends and fans gathered to celebrate the life of ska, rocksteady and reggae pioneer Theodore…
Dancers perform ‘Gerrehbenta’ (1983), choreographed by Rex Nettleford.
July 31, 2026 by Michael Reckord

At 64, the NDTC is ‘Rooted, Moving, Rising’

Emotion and excellence marked the opening night of the National Dance Theatre Company’s (NDTC) 64th Season of Dance under the theme ‘Rooted. Moving. Rising’ at the Little Theatre, Tom Redcam Drive.…
This image released by Magnolia Pictures shows Olivia Wilde (right) and Cooper Hoffman in a scene from ‘I Want Your Sex’.
July 31, 2026

Movie Review | Olivia Wilde rules playful A-18 ‘I Want Your Sex’

Erika Tracy, the artist and provocateur at the heart of I Want Your Sex, may be the most quotable fictional female executive since Miranda Priestly “that’s all-ed” her way into film history.
Rodney Price shows off the Key to the City of Kingston after it was presented to him by the Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby.
July 30, 2026 by Nicola Cunningham

‘That’s where it all started’ - Newly renamed Wenchman Road shaped Bounty Killer

For dancehall icon Rodney Price, better known as Bounty Killer, Wenchman Road is more than just a street. It is where many of his defining memories were made, where he was injured, discovered music…
Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’.
July 30, 2026

Movie Review | In ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, a lonely superhero grows up, looks inward

Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, like more of a native New Yorker than before?
Kevin Feige (left) and David Jonsson attend a panel for Marvel Studios during Comic-Con International on Saturday in San Diego.
July 30, 2026

New Black Panther David Jonsson grateful for role

SAN DIEGO (AP): Marvel Studios used its Comic-Con International presentation on Saturday to announce David Jonsson as the new Black Panther – the son of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa – and reveal that…
Marlon James poses with the Man Booker Prize after his book ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ was named as winner of the 2015 Booker Prize 2015 for Fiction, following the award ceremony at the Guildhall in London on October 13, 2015.
July 30, 2026

Marlon James in the running for second Booker Prize for ‘The Disappearers’

LONDON (AP): Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running again for the prestigious fiction award, alongside Dublin gangs, dystopian science fiction and the New England…
From left: Parnell, played by Tesfa Edwards; Pearl, played by Dahlia Harris; Arlene, played by Maylynne Lowe; and Jah Jah Royal, played by Everaldo Creary, in a scene from ‘Hurricane Hataclaps’.
July 30, 2026 by Michael Reckord

‘Hurricane Hataclaps’ provides energetic entertainment

With the alliteratively named Hurricane Hataclaps showing at the Little Little Theatre on Tom Redcam Drive, Dahlia Harris has another hit on her hands. For the comedy, the multi-talented playwright,…