Remember that video about Carnival in Trinidad in 1957? Fast forward six decades and you have this. Just a warning: This video will make you want to book a flight to Trinidad next February. Oh, and amidst all the costumes, confetti and ‘wining’, see if you can spot Amber Rose. Enjoy! And listenRead More »
When I was a teenage boy growing up in Curaçao, preoccupying my time with ways to impress girls, I had a mortal enemy: Merengue music. It was something like the Lex Luthor to my Superman, the Newman to my Jerry Seinfeld, the common sense to my Kanye West. You see,Read More »
Let me start this off by saying in this instance the word bootleg is not what you may think it is. It’s the bootleg defined as a remix of a song in which a producer incorporates bits of the original song in its finished condition, as opposed to the traditional remix inRead More »
Ever heard of the Caribbean region of Colombia? In case you haven’t I’m talking about those eight states to the country’s north, straddled by or directly in the Caribbean Sea. And in case you’re saying “Caribbean-Shmaribbean, it’s still Colombia, right? Why should I have heard of that one particular region?”Read More »
Today is no regular Wednesday. No, today the hump on this hump day has been raised a few inches. For today is Ash Wednesday, a day when many of Christian and Catholic faith, among others, go to church to receive their blessed ashes on their forehead and a day thatRead More »