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The shady side of paradise
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Aleem Marcus Valentine is used to being seen. He is tall, with the face and physique of a model. He is a model, part-time, when he isn’t working at his chosen career as a chef.
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Everything is practice
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Over the past two months, Barbados-born, New Jersey-resident writer Austin Fido has written a series of articles attempting to get behind the mas—from concept to design to production and performance.
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Minsh meditates on mas, Miss Miles
Sunday, March 30, 2014
There was a time when designer and masman Peter Minshall had only two dogs: Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Norman Manley.
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Miss Miles makes mas on stage again
Sunday, March 23, 2014
“The other day, a friend said to me, ‘You know, I never miss mass,’” says the character Gene Miles from the stage of the Little Carib Theatre, adopting the slightly haughty tone of well-intended piety
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A lifetime of mas and more
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Barbados-born, New Jersey-resident writer Austin Fido continues his series of articles attempting to get behind the mas—from concept to design to production and performance.
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New, tradition-based mas claims its space
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Barbados-born, New Jersey-resident writer Austin Fido continues his series of articles attempting to get behind the mas—from concept to design to production and performance.
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Minsh stirs the pot again
Sunday, February 23, 2014
From now until Carnival, Barbadian-born, New Jersey-resident writer Austin Fido will write a series of articles attempting to get behind the mas—from concept to design to production and performance.
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Revising a tradition
Sunday, February 9, 2014
From now until Carnival, Barbados-born, New Jersey-resident writer Austin Fido will write a series of articles attempting to get behind the mas—from concept to design to production and performance.
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Dancing in the J'Ouvert space
Sunday, February 2, 2014
“Every year I play a ballerina at J’Ouvert,” says Makeda Thomas, a 36-year-old internationally honoured dancer and choreographer, and director and curator of the Dance and Performance Institute that b
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