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  • Love, Brooklyn

    (**1/2) He loves her. He loves her not. She loves him, she loves him not. That’s why they ... [ Read More ]

    Love, Brooklyn
  • An Officer and a Spy

    (***1/2)  Accused, court-martialed and imprisoned. Back in late 1800s France, the ... [ Read More ]

    An Officer and a Spy
  • Highest 2 Lowest

    (***)  “Oh, what a beautiful mornin’, Oh what a beautiful day. I've got a ... [ Read More ]

    Highest 2 Lowest
  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps

    (**1/2)  “I will not sacrifice this child for the world. I will not sacrifice this world ... [ Read More ]

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps
  • Weapons

    (***1/2)  They’re gone. Just like that they disappeared into the night. At 2:17am. ... [ Read More ]

    Weapons
  • The Naked Gun

    (**)  The Naked Gun is shooting blanks. Not all the time. But some of the ... [ Read More ]

    The Naked Gun
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer

    (**)  They had it coming. The negligence and callousness they showed that night set them ... [ Read More ]

    I Know What You Did Last Summer
  • Superman

    (***)  It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a broken man. A broken Kryptonian who’s trying to ... [ Read More ]

    Superman
  • F1: The Movie

    (***)  It’s a Tom Cruise kinda movie, but it stars Brad Pitt. He’s the protagonist in ... [ Read More ]

    F1: The Movie
  • 28 Years Later

    (***)  Waking up in a hospital bed and discovering the world has been devastated by a ... [ Read More ]

    28 Years Later
  • Wizkid: Long Live Lagos Premieres at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival

    If Afrobeats music has a king, it’s Wizkid. He wasn’t self-anointed. It’s just that his music has ... [ Read More ]

    Wizkid: Long Live Lagos Premieres at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival
  • The 2025 Capital Jazz Festival Welcomed Music Lovers 

    (***1/2) And so, they gathered. From near and far they came to Columbia Maryland for the ... [ Read More ]

    The 2025 Capital Jazz Festival Welcomed Music Lovers 

Duck Key in the Florida Keys: A Lively Family and Fishing Vacation

August 9, 2013 By: Dwight Brown

Surprise, surprise, there is a hot vacation destination midway between Miami and Key West. One and a half hours from the heart of Miami, there’s a sign for Duck Key on Route 1, the Overseas Highway, before it hits the world-famous Seven Mile Bridge. Take the left turn. The road leads to a quiet but […]

New Orleans and All Its Jazz

May 3, 2013 By: Dwight Brown

Yes New Orleans, Louisiana is steeped in history, culture, fine arts and friendly gregarious people. And all those ingredients seem to peak every April when the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivaltakes center stage. Thousands of music lovers sojourn to a city that already has a rhythm all its on. Wine flows, tasty food is […]

Best Films of 2012

January 2, 2013 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic A stellar year for filmmaking is behind us and the best movies are worth seeing whether you screen them in a theater, on DVD, or VOD. Grab some popcorn and enjoy the exceptional work of black actors, directors and other talented artists. The Ten Best Films of 2012 Beasts […]

Cannes Majestic Hotel

December 2, 2012 By: Dwight Brown

Every May, the city of Cannes, on the chic southern shores of France’s famed Côte d’Azur, hosts the world-renowned Cannes Film Festival where actors, directors and world-premiere movies take center stage. The most glamorous people stay in Cannes’ most glamorous hotel, the Cannes Majestic Barrière. I know, because I saw them when I roomed at […]

Ritz-Carlton Jamaica

December 2, 2012 By: Dwight Brown

In August 2000, the world-renowned Ritz-Carlton chain opened a new, 200-acre resort on the white-sand shores of Rose Hall Jamaica, just 15 minutes from Montego Bay airport. In just a year, Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall, Jamaica has become one of the island’s most elegant and well-maintained resorts. Its graceful, seductive, gray-taupe, horseshoe-shaped, 5-story building beckons vacationers […]

Barbados for Grownups

December 2, 2012 By: Dwight Brown

The British came to Barbados in 1627 and used slave labor to work the sugar plantations that produced world-class rum. From 1834, when slavery was abolished, through the 20th century, the island’s economy was dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production. After Barbados won independence from the UK in 1966, tourism and manufacturing gradually surpassed […]

A Sunny South Florida Vacation Without the Thongs & Six Packs

December 2, 2012 By: Dwight Brown

If you’re thinking of a Florida vacation, but would rather skip the over-populated, see-and-be-seen sands of South Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Miami offers a quieter, more family-friendly and adult-happy alternative. Same sun, shores and waters … fewer thongs and six-pack abs. Sunny Isles Beach The Haulover Bridge, completed in 1925, connects Miami Beach to the […]

Good Reasons to Comeback to Jamaican Hotels & Resorts

December 2, 2012 By: Dwight Brown

TV news reports have depicted Jamaican government forces battling a drug gang in the Tivoli Gardens section of Kingston, a city on Jamaica’s southeast coast. That mayhem caused the State Department to issue a Travel Alert for that Kingston, which expires June 23. Tivoli is only one section of a vast city frequented largely by […]

St. Lucia – Come for the Jazz & Arts Festival, Stay for the Island

December 2, 2012 By: Dwight Brown

When the 22nd annual St. Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival came to a rollicking close May 12, over 50 artists had whipped audiences into frenzy and sustained a cool vibe that lasted for 13 days. When they weren’t listening to toe-tapping music on Pigeon Island National Landmark, festivalgoers dined out, went sailing, sightseeing, beach hopping, […]

The 2014 Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival Rocks It

December 2, 2012 By: Dwight Brown

  The annual Seabreeze Jazz Festival is a major stop on the jazz festival circuit. The four-day weekend soiree draws a burgeoning audience of 20,000 music lovers from Florida, Georgia, Alabama—41 states in all and ten countries. They come to Panama City Beach to hear international musicians sing and play their instruments in a style […]

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