From the yearly archives:

2009

Killing with kindness

9 November 2009

We on the arts community in The Bahamas often like to believe that things are different for artists in other Caribbean nations. This blog post from PLEASURE blog suggests that it’s not so: Tomorrow, the spanking new $518 million National Academy for the Performing Arts around the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, will officially [...]

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Better late than never

28 October 2009

Catching up on my RSS feeds (issues with Safari have put a serious crimp in my blog-reading habits) I came across this from Long Bench, and I want to say “hear, hear”. To suggest that a light-skinned woman is not authentically Jamaican – ie. is a foreigner – and therefore should not even be in [...]

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On Holding One Other in Contempt

24 October 2009

There’s an affliction that strikes countries whose histories come out of colonialism. It’s one of the legacies that dangles on, like a dying but not-quite-dead jellyfish, wrapping its tentacles over whatever it can reach, spreading its venom to newer and newer generations. It’s the sense that what happens in your space of the world, what [...]

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The Closing of Starbucks COB

21 October 2009

First of all, the disclaimers. One, I am a coffee addict. Specifically, a Starbucks coffee addict. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. Two, I know that Starbucks isn’t the company of the year and that trueblue radicals eschew it just as much as they fight the WTO. And three, I live [...]

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Bitching about Browsers

17 October 2009

All right. I thought that my first post after Shakespeare in Paradise would be something about the festival, something about the cultural industries, something thoughtful about economics and development and creativity, you know? Something constructive. But no. My first post after Shakespeare in Paradise is about browsers. About Snow Leopard. About upgrading. About this being [...]

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Shakespeare in Paradise

30 September 2009

Title: Shakespeare in ParadiseLocation: City of NassauLink out: Click hereDescription: A theatre festival for Nassau and the world!!Start Date: 2009-10-05End Date: 2009-10-12

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Drum Circle, Fort Charlotte

30 September 2009

via Daria Del and Noelle Nicolls

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Differing Further

18 September 2009

I only began to touch on the reasons for my not agreeing entirely with Ward on his assessment of the theatre industry here in The Bahamas. To recap: his take on things proposed that the surest way for any writer to make a living at writing creatively in our country is to do it for [...]

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Begging to differ

7 September 2009

with Ward again (c’mon, what did you expect? I mean, really.) Not that he’s totally off base. He’s right, as usual, but only partly so. Here’s how he begins his fourth post on the viability of Bahamian art: If you want to be a professional creative writer in the Bahamas you are going to have [...]

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Google May Hand Over Caribbean Journalists’ IP Addresses

1 September 2009

I have often wondered seriously about the American commitment to freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I have often wondered also about the American belief in the principles on which it is founded; it’s one of those things that make me deeply sceptical about any action taken by that giant of a country that [...]

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