Conch Salad TV: The Sperrit!

Ready for Junkanoo? 

Catch "The Sperrit" Jordan Darville's documentary
that follows the team "One Family" as they detail their history and the
history of the festival, while dealing with internal struggles and
rival squads.

The film also touches on the problems Bahamian society
faces, and how Junkanoo may be inadvertently contributing to them...

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Conch Salad TV: Lighthouses of The Bahamas

Lighthouses of the Bahamas are an iconic symbol of the country's
history. The Bahamas has the only remaining hand cranked (kerosene) light houses in
the world.  See them lit by the keepers, learn their stories and let us know if you think they should be saved.

This video features interviews with Dave Gale of the Bahamas
Lighthouse Preservation Society, as well as Hope Town Lighthouse
Kee...

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Conch Salad TV: Reggae in The Bahamas

We don't expect to find much LIVE reggae in Nassau (not much live
music in general these days) but check out

Willis and the Illest. They
got a blend of styles, and are steadily building their local audience
with their weekly shows.

What do you think about them? Have you seen
them perform live yet? Or heard their newest album? What is the future
of Bahamian Reggae?

This video features inter...

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Conch Salad TV: Lighthouses of The Bahamas

Lighthouses of the Bahamas are an iconic symbol of the country's
history. The Bahamas has the only remaining hand cranked (kerosene) light houses in the world.? See them lit by the keepers, learn their stories and let us know if you think they should be saved.

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I am Bahamian. I Eat Conch Salad.

Saturday 10th July 2010  12:00 PM

In collaboration with Bahamian Fashion Designers and Visual Artists:

- Kishan Munroe
- Tyrone Ferguson
- Apryl Jasmine Burrows
- John Beadle
- Harl Taylor
- Percy Wallace
- Jefferson St John
- Kendall Hanna

Start Time: July 10th at 12:00noon
Where: The Hub Gallery, Bay Street (East of Victoria Street)

I am Bahamian. I Eat Conch Salad.

Saturday 17th July 2010  6:00 PM

In collaboration with Bahamian Fashion Designers and Visual Artists:

- Kishan Munroe
- Tyrone Ferguson
- Apryl Jasmine Burrows
- John Beadle
- Harl Taylor
- Percy Wallace
- Jefferson St John
- Kendall Hanna

Start Time: July 17th at 6:00pm
Where: Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, #26 Dunmore Ave., Chippingham

Conch Salad TV: What's so Great about Turtles

A video that answers this important question from the mind of a
Bahamian high school student!  Following the 2009 ban of the capture of
any turtles, many Bahamians were outraged. But this video strives to
show why we should not be outraged, but should in fact be proud.

How do
you feel about the Turtle Ban? Let us know.

Brought to you by Friends of the Environment, Loggerhead Productio...

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Conch Salad TV: What's so Great about Turtles

A video that answers this important question from the mind of a
Bahamian high school student!  Following the 2009 ban of the capture of
any turtles, many Bahamians were outraged. But this video strives to
show why we should not be outraged, but should in fact be proud.

How do
you feel about the Turtle Ban? Let us know.

Brought to you by Friends of the Environment, Loggerhead Productio...

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Spice Up Your Joints

Can herbs and spices be good medicine for your joints? One new contender for soothing stiff knees is ginger. When people with stiff, sore, osteo-arthritic knees took a ginger extract for 6 weeks, they felt significantly better than their placebo-dosed pals who received fake ginger.

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Recognizing and celebrating Bahamian talent

Last week in this journal fellow columnist Philip Galanis reflected on the "miasma of mediocrity" that is a stranglehold on The Bahamas: "At almost every turn in our daily lives, we are deluged by a miasma of mediocrity. Our society, on so many fronts, appears to be intractably inundated by an attitude that reflects that there is really no need to excel in our undertakings and that, if we just per...

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