The Scene

More than lettuce By Cynthia Nelson Hi Everyone, It is summer time and in North America and Europe it means lots of outdoor grilling and eating of lots of salads.

By Mark McGowan Joshua Benn and Sheldon McKinnon are two young men who share an intense love for music.

To celebrate its first anniversary, Wildfire Production will host a “summer” jam at the National Stadium and a Chutney show in Berbice later this month.

Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje and Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai are the two books that will be discussed when the Georgetown Book Club meets this month.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne To master the art of make-up, especially in this part of the world, takes a lot of talent and hard work and those are the two qualities that Paulla De Souza has making her one of the most sought-after make-up artists in the Caribbean.

If it feels good, wear it What is it about hair extensions, braids and wigs that makes some people so rattled they can’t seem to get their heads around the idea that women love them?

Hi Everyone, “Those who eat the Cascadura will, the native legend says, wheresoever they may wander end in Trinidad their days,” Johnson and the Cascadura (Selvon, 1957).

The raging dance buffs at Classique have cooked up what they say is another hot show and in case anyone is wondering what’s on the menu, don’t ask just show up with an appetite for entertainment.

Kemran Ramnarayan has been crafting all manner of things out of leather for the last 25 years drawing quiet recognition and shying away from much attention but he is changing all that now all because of a mirror.

Local designer, Michelle Cole, will be in attendance at this year’s, July 25 Fashion Has No Borders (FHB) premiere event slated for the Palais Royal Ballroom, Toronto, during which she will showcase some of her work.

On July 17, a youth designer will be chosen from a pool of seven students, who have endured weeks of competing while managing to avoid elimination, when the final stage of Cole Facts 2 is taken to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The DL Chronicles will kick off the pre-Carifesta X SASOD ‘Saturday Nite Movies and Limes’ at Sidewalk Café starting next Saturday.

Sidewalk Cafe screens one of the early films made in Guyana – the musical comedy If Wishes Were Horses on Tuesday.

(After years out of the limelight, the man behind a song that became an anti-apartheid anthem returned as one of the stars of Nelson Mandela’s concert.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne Andrea McAdam can safely be described as a woman who is multi-talented and one who is never too big or small for a task.

Yellow party! Ever beat your chest in frustration, argue a point until it got worn and people stopped listening and displayed a fit of anger while ordering a round of drinks, and urging the deejay to turn the music up?

By Cynthia Nelson Hi Everyone, They are onions alright, though some say they are immature, perhaps it’s because a single name cannot be ascribed to them.