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Anyone who ever suffered as a teenager watching his parents try to act cool can perhaps sympathize with Princes William and Harry. Last week their normally phlegmatic father PRINCE CHARLES demonstrated in a brief but very public moment his appreciation for the reggae beat. Visiting Jamaica, the man who would be King became the toast of Kingston as he toured the blighted neighborhood of Trench Town and met with Bob Marley's widow Rita. The prince was anointed with a crown of dreadlocks fastened to a Rastafarian cap, which he donned briefly, and backward, before doffing it because...
When Chopra first moved to the United States twenty years ago with his wife and newborn baby, he said an intruder carrying a baseball bat tried to enter his home in Jamaica Plain...
...Author Jamaica Kincaid and a group of black artists discussed the value of racial categories in art during a panel at the third annual Black Arts Festival Friday afternoon...
...fried for the day. Two young women pack up their professional equipment. Allison Dimond and Emily Cox have been playing at T stops since only November. Both guitarists and vocalists, these two usually submerge on Saturdays to practice and promote their music (see them at the Dogwood Cafe in Jamaica Plain on Sunday nights). They even gave a private feel-good performance for FM. Working at Radcliffe and teaching at a local charter school keep them busy during the days while musical expression keeps them smiling at nights and weekends...
...grandparents brought me into the fraternity of horse-players when I was about six, whisking me from midtown Manhattan to Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, Queens. We would make the 45-minute bus ride on a 20-passenger van owned and operated by a man named Gus, who, I would learn years later, died of a heart attack in the men's room at The Sands in Las Vegas. Gus had been married several times, and his last marriage ended when his wife gave him an ultimatum: me or horses. Gus chose horses...