Check out this review of a great new restaurant, EITS, located up in the Blue Mountains reviewed by a cool new blog on Jamaican food Nyamist.com. “In a perfect world, all Sunday brunches would be this good: relaxing in the cool breeze, gazing out over lush, verdant mountains, eating fresh, homemade

Here’s an interesting conference coming up at Ryerson University in Toronto on July 24 – 26, “Counter Cultures: An international conference on exploring shopkeeping in the Chinese diaspora”. Keynote speakers: Dr. Keith Lowe, Dr. Lily Cho and Dr. Jack Tchen For more info on this subject see Searching for Mr. Chin

Here’s a cool video with the highlights of the Portland Jerk festival 2011!

On Monday July 18, at 5:30 p.m., Bookophilia will launch two titles, from legendary poet, memoirist, journalist, literary scholar and creative writing teacher, the late Wayne Vincent Brown. The two collections, “On the Coast and other Poems” and “The Scent of The Past & Other Stories”, were posthumously published by

F.Y.I. ALL!  We’re now using our YardEdge facebook page to share the myriad events happening around town and across the island that we think are worth checking out. So please “like” our facebook page to stay informed of some of the amazing variety of cool arts and culture “happenings” here in JA. Facebook