Poetry Books by various authors c.2025, Penguin $18.99 - $20 Various page counts A, B, B, A. That’s not only how you spell the name of a popular music group. That’s also how a poem might be structured if it rhymes or is created in other ways. That’s the thing about poetry: it’s all how you perceive it when making and reading it. So why not think about putting […]
Our North Star has always been keeping New York City streets, subways, and communities safe. This is a pro-public safety administration, and we know that in order for New York City to be the best place to raise a family, our neighborhoods need to be safe. Since day one, our administration has been dedicated to making sure New Yorkers are safer and feel safer. We have put thousands of more […]
The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) said on Friday that the Caribbean Advertising Federation (CAF) has awarded it the prestigious 2025 American Advertising Award (ADDY). JTB said it received a Silver ADDY Award for its "Where Your Heart Belongs" advertisement in the cinematography category, which recognizes outstanding work in film and video production. Released in winter 2024, in partnership with Jamaican creative agency The Limners and Bards Limited, JTB said the […]
The music of Grammy-award artistes Gwen Stefani and Lainey Wilson took center stage at King's Theatre on Flatbush on April 3 to bring awareness to women's health. Thanks to "Women Who Rock," a crusade to champion women in music and women's health, the show, titled "Audacy Leading Ladies," revved up the audience of hundreds of women. The theatre, illuminated with radiant lighting, opened with the passionate voices of Kassi Ashton, […]
Antigua and Barbuda The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has hired a United States-based legal firm to defend the country in a legal battle taking place in Florida where the attorneys of a Russian woman have sought permission to issue subpoenas to access the records of Prime Minister Gaston Browne and other officials involved in the sale of a mega-yacht that her father had abandoned. The mega-yacht, abandoned by […]
Broadway looks a tad more colorful. In part attributed to the transformation of a 1930s animated cartoon character popularly known as Betty Boop, the formerly black-and-white comic feature is now a musically engaging spectacle of the Great White Way. Spotlighting the rainbow-enchanting Jasmine Amy Rogers, "Boop! The Musical" starts off in muted black-and-white settings. It's no secret that Betty's universe encompassed the dullest gray, the bleakest black, and pale pure white. […]
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and New York City Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced on Thursday that they will offer a $500 bank card to anyone for turning in operable guns and assault rifles at a gun buy-back event on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Gonzalez said the event will take place, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 574 Madison St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “Brooklyn made […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga recently announced that the city's minimum pay rate for app-based restaurant delivery workers has increased to $21.44 per hour before tips following a phase in of the pay rate. He said the $21.44 rate reflects the final phase-in of the minimum pay rate for app-based delivery workers, which was […]
Internationally celebrated soca artist Kees Dieffenthaller, frontman of Kes the Band, has made history once again — this time as the first soca performer to sell out two SummerStage concerts at Central Park within hours of going on sale. “Set for July 5 and July 6, 2025, these back-to-back sold-out shows mark a groundbreaking moment not only for Kees but for the entire Caribbean music scene,” Ronnie Tomlinson, the Jamaican-born […]
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Never Again Machel Montano
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Bless This Party Patrice Roberts
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Soca Party Nadia Batson
