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ISSUE NO. 121
May/June - 2013
EMBARK: Events around the Caribbean in May and June • Commemorate the 175th anniversary of Indian Arrival in Guyana, celebrate our connection to nature at the Hindu festival of Ganga Dhaaraa in Trinidad, and enjoy the eclectic line-up at the St Kitts Music Festival • Desiree Seebaran meets Etana, a Jamaican singer with a message • Bahamian designer Phylicia Ellis does twelve-and-under chic • This month’s reading picks — from an artist’s memoirs to the latest fiction • Recent albums and singles to get you in your groove • The Caribbean makes some of the world’s best rum. Where should a neophyte connoisseur start? Franka Philip gets expert advice | IMMERSE: Their infectious melodies, smart lyrics, and playful stage presence make No-Maddz Jamaica’s band of the moment. Kellie Magnus and Tanya Batson-Savage find out where the quartet’s “Bongo music” came from, and where it’s going • For Guyanese-Canadian artist Sandra Brewster, the phone book, with its long lists of names, sums up the way individual lives can disappear into an anonymous mass. Nicholas Laughlin examines Brewster’s Smiths series, which playfully asks what’s in a name • For over three hundred years, the Salem Witch Trials have lingered in American historical memory. But, as Debbie Jacob finds, few people know the woman who set it all off may have been an Arawak from Guyana • Guyanese writer Oonya Kempadoo on the long gestation of her third novel, and her passion for social development work — as told to Desiree Seebaran • An excerpt from Oonya Kempadoo’s new novel, All Decent Animals • Garry Steckles shares his personal list of the ten greatest calypso and soca singers of all time 
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