Now in its 27th Year! oct 30 - Nov 5, 2014 Vol.27, No.8
YouR FRee Guide
to our islands’ happenings
Also this week: A sunset walk of hope • halloween Parties • Movember Registration Party • BVi Food Fete
This Week’s Feature Story by Jan Critchley
Food Glorious Food ing where the visiting local chefs will join top BVI chefs to prepare a mouth-watering five-course menu. Other events throughout include a unique rum tasting experience at the historic Callwood Rum Distillery on November 7th. The distillery has been in operation for over four centuries, where the legacy of rum making has been handed down from father to son over the centuries. The Taste of the BVI events on November 14th (Tortola) and 15th (Virgin Gorda) bring restaurants together at one venue in a market style setting where they will offer free food and beverage samples. There will also be an On The Rocks Bar Crawl in Virgin Gorda on November 15th and Local Fridays, where restaurants across the archipelago will be serving some the best local fare around. Last but not least, signature hotels, Peter Island Resort and Spa, Rosewood Little Dix Bay and Scrub Island Resort, Marina and Spa are hosting special events (see centre pages) in addition to offering discounts on accommodations throughout the month. For full details of all the activites for the 2014 BVI Food Fete to make bookings visit the web site at www.bvifoodfete.com or call 494-3134 for info.
November is Culinary Month so give your taste buds a treat with the BVI’s very first Food Fete, that fills the start of the season with a wide variety of gastronomic events including BVI Restaurant Week from November 14th to 23rd and the Anegada Lobster Festival from November 29th to 30th. Sharon Flax-Mars, Director of Tourism for the BVITB said, “The BVI Food Fete is a wonderful opportunity for the Territory to showcase its cuisine and the program has been designed so that diners will have the opportunity to island hop while sampling local dishes such as the famous Anegada spiny lobster; our signature cocktail, The Painkiller and much more.” Throughout the month-long BVI Food Fete, there are many events including a Visiting Chef Program, which is designed to bring visiting international chefs to work with culinary students to give these aspiring young chefs valuable insight and knowledge from highly skilled culinary professionals. Meet the visiting chefs at one of the major events, the Barefoot Gourmet Soiree on November 22nd at Peter Island for an evening of elegance and fine din-
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Ask Koren
Your personal E-therapist, is in the house!
In Love with Former Abuser
Ask Koren
Dear Koren, I am 19 years old and my mother and aunt do not want me to date my boyfriend because he got in trouble for being with me when I was 13. If I am an adult now, is it not better if I go with somebody I already know, than to be sleeping around? He is 29 now and I am tired of those guys my age that just want to use me and they don’t even try to help me. I just want to be happy but I am fed up of how they are behaving and they don’t let him come to the house. What do I do? –JT
tomed to them or because you do not think you deserve better is also a terrible idea. Even if he has changed, you can forgive him and move on. Maybe you are afraid that no one else will have you or maybe he has brainwashed you into thinking that he has loved you for a long time but abuse is not love. Molestation is not love. He took advantage of you then and maybe he is taking advantage of you now. Your mother and aunt probably understand what happened to you as a child and they know that you deserve a fresh relationship that is not messy. If I were them, I would not want him at my house either. He committed a crime, damaged your self-esteem and stole your innocence. While it may seem comfortable now, later on you will look back and wish someone had told you that you are way too special to be with someone who has hurt you in such a bad way.
Dear JT, You are an adult and have the right to date anyone you want, but be aware that there are consequences for everything you do. When you sit and think that this is the person who cared so little about you to take your innocence at the tender age of 13, is that someone that you can trust? You deserve to be in a good, loving relationship with someone who loves you and respects you. Helping you is nice, but that is not all you need. What happens if when you are too mature for him and he decides that he needs to find someone else who is younger? How will you deal with that? Yes, you are correct, sleeping around is not a good idea but being with someone just because you are accus-
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By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway
“The Sportsman” Turns 20 It was the meeting that changed my life and “Good. We’ve got a deal. You’ll be doing ZROD launched a new career 11 days before I’d know I would Sports from November 1,” he said. engage in it. I tried to get my head wrapped around it and had I’d been covering sports in the Territory for the BVI just 11 days. I called my brother who was in radio on Beacon, after Karl Dawson (now president of HLSCC) ZBVI in 70s and 80s as the Black Machine to share the went to further his education at the University of the news. West Indies in 1986. What have I really gotten myself into I thought Over those first eight years and a bit bored with after I left the meeting. Everyone in radio had a name my primary job at the time, I and here I was about to enter noticed that local sports was unfamiliar territory and had no being thoroughly neglected. I identity. knew everything that happened For the next several days, I within West Indies Cricket and in went through name after name the NBA, NFL and Major League but nothing clicked. Baseball as many things on the Four days after our Thursday local scene went underground. meeting, that Tuesday night when After some thought, I put a I walked into the BVI Beacon proposal together to present to office to drop off my weekly ZBVI 780 AM and ZROD 103.7 FM sports column, one of the guys and wrote both a letter. Rodney said as he usually did “here Dean "The Sportsman" Greenaway Herbert said he was interested marks 20 years as a Sportscaster comes the sportsman.” and set up a meeting following an industry meeting “Ah,” I thought out loud. “That’s it. I’ve got my abroad. radio name. I’ll be Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway. During our meeting, I launched my proposal to Over the next few days I bounced it off a few trusthave sports e-mailed so that his on air personnel ed people who liked it. could use it. On November 1, 1994, I nervously made my live “Why don’t’ you come in and do it,” he asked, debut. catching me off guard. The room seem to go dark and “Good afternoon everyone, I’m Dean “The I started to sweat for what seemed like five minutes Sportsman” Greenaway and from now on, I’ll be bringbefore I recovered and stammered... ing you ZROD Sports….” “Who me, me? You mean me doing radio sports? I can’t believe it’s 20 years already since “The I don’t know anything about radio,” I protested. Sportsman” was born, and I entered an area of jour“We’ll work with you,” he assured. “How about nalism – radio that just 11 days before I had no idea I’d starting on Monday?” be getting into. “Monday? You mean this coming Monday? I can’t It surely has been a great diverse experience covdo that,” I retorted during our Thursday October 20, ering sports and connecting with fans over the last 20 1994 meeting. “How about November 1?” I offered. years. Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide
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Your Guide to British Virgin Islands Events
By Jan Critchley Paint the Town Pink For the last day of October, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, make sure to wear pink this Friday, 31st October to support this worthy cause. There will be clinical breast exams at LIME from 10am to 2pm, so head over and get checked out. Even better, it’s free!
A Sunset Walk Also on Friday, 31st October, HLSCC has organized A Sunset Walk in support of Domestic Violence and Breast Cancer Awareness month. Wear your pink for the fight against cancer and purple for the fight against domestic violence. The walk starts at HLSCC and is to Brandywine Beach and back. Release sky lanterns from the seashore in memory of lives lost and to give hope to survivors, and after the walk enjoy music and pink and purple cocktails at the campus! On site registration at HLSCC is between 4pm and 5:30pm when the walk will start. The fee is $5 for adults and $1 for children under 10 and all proceeds go to the BVI Cancer Society and the Family Support Network.
Beach Club Re-Opens Stop by The Beach Club Terrace, which is open for lunch and dinner Mondays to Saturdays from 11am till closing for local and international cuisine. The daily happy hour has 50-cent hot wings, 2 for 1 rum punches and painkillers and 2 for $5 beers. There will be karaoke on Thursdays and every Friday is a party with
DJ from 9pm. This is also a perfect venue for your special event. Call 343-7810 for bookings and more information.
Trellis Bay Full Moon Party Make a trip east to eclectic Trellis Bay for the Full Moon party that will be rockin’ the beach on Thursday, November 6th. Fungi band, The Razorbladez will be headlining and the famous fireballs will be lit around 9pm. Come early for the amazing Caribbean buffet, see the sky high Moko Jumbies dance through the crowd. Don’t miss this one of a kind party where there is something for all the family.
Halloween Happenin’s Put on your scariest costume and head to Scaramouche in Soper’s Hole on Friday, 31st October for their Halloween Fandango. DJ Jay Negril will be spinning the decks from 7pm till late and there will be a welcome drink, complimentary buffet and prizes at midnight for the best costume. Or, head over to Foxy’s for their Halloween Costume Party on Friday, 31st October for their awesome BBQ, Final Faze playing live and prizes for the most ghoulish look! The Halloween bash at Bomba Shack this Friday, 31st October will be one to remember with great music, drink specials, fab prizes and much more. The party starts at 8 till late. Seven Deadly Sins is a Halloween Soiree with something for everyone, featuring VIP lounging, spe9
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live music • events • concerts •
THURSDAY - OCT 30
EAST END
ROAD TOWN
HLSCC — A Sunset Walk of Hope 5:30pm. Wear
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm.
PINK in support of Breast Cancer Awareness or PUR-
SHARKY’S — Happy Hour from 5-7pm. Ladies’
Registration starts at 4pm
Night 7pm-until
CANE GARDEN BAY
CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Sunset Happy Hour 5-7pm. Roll the dice
MYETT’S — Sunset Happy Hour 5-7pm. Roll the
boutique sale up to 60% off
dice boutique sale up to 60% off
FRIDAY - OCT 31 - PAINT THE TOWN PINK
VG & OUTER ISLANDS
ROAD TOWN
FOXY’S (JVD) — Halloween Costume Party with
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm.
BBQ and music by Final Faze
SHARKY’S — Happy Hour from 5-7pm.
SATURDAY - NOV 1
SAVE THE SEED — All girls exhibition game 7pm.
ROAD TOWN
Bayside Blazers vs. Knights 8:30pm
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm
LIME — Free breast exams at LIME 10am-2pm
SAVE THE SEED — ESHS Rams-Male in exhibition
LA PIAZZA — Seven Deadly Sins Halloween Soiree
game 7pm. Bayside Blazers vs. Knights 8:30pm
with music by DJ Dre & Push Pop from 8pm
THE DOVE — BVI MOvember Registration Party
MULTI PURPOSE COMPLEX — 40+ Basketball
from 5:30-8pm
League. To sign up call Karl Scatliffe 541-7541 WEST END
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PLE in support of Domestic Violence Awareness.
CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Sunset Happy Hour 5-7pm. Roll the
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm. Live
dice boutique sale up to 60% off
music by saxophonist Glenroy Charles 7-9pm.
BREEZE PADDLE SURF — Halloween Fun
SCARAMOUCHE — Halloween Fandango Costume
Costume Paddle from Breeze Paddle Surf at noon.
Party with DJ Jay Negril from 7pm until
PARADISE CLUB SPORTS BAR — After party for
BOMBA SHACK — Halloween Bash, drink specials,
Halloween Fun Costume Paddle. Best costume gets
prizes 8pm til late
$100 tab & prizes
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ts • parties • sports • movies and more
VG & OUTER ISLANDS LITTLE DIX (VG) — 6 course fine dining wine paired dinner 6-10pm
SUNDAY - NOV 2 ROAD TOWN SHARKY’S — “Bubbles, Breeze Sunday Brunch starting from 11:30am
SAVE THE SEED — Pilates Classes with Pamelah Antoine from 5:45pm
UPCOMING EVENTS
VG & OUTER ISLANDS SCRUB ISLAND — Caribbean Street BBQ poolside with live music CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Sunset Happy 5-7pm. Margarita Mexican Monday. Roll the dice boutique sale up to
WEST END
60% off
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm. Live
TUESDAY - NOV 4
music by saxophonist Glenroy Charles 7-9pm.
CANE GARDEN BAY
CANE GARDEN BAY
MYETT’S — Sunset Happy Hour 5-7pm. Roll the
MYETT’S — Special Brunch Menu & Bottomless
dice boutique sale up to 60% off
Mimosas. Sunset Happy Hour 5-7pm. Roll the dice bou-
VG & OUTER ISLANDS
tique sale up to 60% off
PETER ISLAND — Peter Island’s Grilling & Smoking
VG & OUTER ISLANDS
class 12-5pm
PETER ISLAND — Peter Isl. Bike Race last in series. Entry fee $20pp incl. ferry & breakfast. Meet at CSY dock 7am
MONDAY - NOV 3 ROAD TOWN PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm
WEDNESDAY - NOV 5 ROAD TOWN SHARKY’S — Happy Hour from 5-7pm. Salsa & Quiz Night. Trivia begins at 7pm. Salsa Dancing from 8pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S —Sunset Happy Hour 5-7pm. Roll the dice
SHARKY’S — Happy Hour from 5-7pm. Service Industry Night bring in pay stubs for discount specials
boutique sale up to 60% off VG & OUTER ISLANDS
from 7pm SAVE THE SEED — Zumba Classes with Doniesha
PETER ISLAND — Caribbean Buffet with live Steel
Maduro Findlay at 7pm
Drum music
Anegada Lobster Festival Nov 29 - 30
Trellis Bay Full Moon Party — Nov 6 Withers Bucket Challenge — Nov 8 Caribbean Cellars Block Party — Nov 8 Restaurant Week — Nov 14-23 BVI Triathlon Federation-Semi Steel — Nov 15 Thanksgiving — Nov 27 Hudson & The Hoo Doo Cats — Nov 27
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5:30pm to 8pm for registration for BVI MOvember. The first 10 men to register will get a free shot of Patron XO Café Incendio, courtesy of sponsors, Caribbean Cellars. The Dove will have mustache themed cocktails and MOsistas can also register to volunteer throughout the month of November and be in to win the coveted Miss MOvember title! There will be BVI Molympics merchandise for sale, get yours while stocks last. So get along to The Dove, sign up and grow your mo, that’s all there is to it!
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cialty cocktails, the photo booth and talented dancers. Entertainment will be provided by DJ Dre and DJ Push Pop, so head to La Piazza at Prospect Reef from 8pm on Friday, 31st October and have some stylish Halloween fun. Fancy something more energetic, then look no further than the Halloween Fun Paddle by Breeze Paddle Surf at Cane Garden Bay. Dress up in costume and paddle around the bay. Afterwards is a fun beach party at Paradise Club Sports Bar and Grille and there will be $100 bar tab awarded for the best costume! There will be kids prizes too, so be there from noon on Saturday, 1st November.
40+ Basketball League If you are 40 or over and enjoy a game of basketball, why not sign up for the 40+ Basketball League? The League starts on Friday, October 31st at 7pm at the Multi Purpose Complex and there will be two games per night over every weekend (Fri, Sat and Sun) until December. There are already eight teams registered so sign up today by calling Karl Scatliffe on 541-7541.
BVI MOvember Party
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Calling all MoBros and MoSistas! Head to The Dove Restaurant on Saturday, November 1st from
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By Jan Critchley
I Do… I love weddings, so when one of my best friends decided to tie the knot recently, my flight was booked and before I knew it I was winging my way to the UK to join in the celebrations. The wedding was in Morecambe, an old-fashioned northern seaside town in Lancashire in the UK, which handily for me, is not far at all from my family. However, having just arrived at Gatwick, the journey started with a train ride from London to Lancaster with three friends and before long we were getting really excited at the prospect of the wedding and the fun that was going to be had. And we were not disappointed. When we arrived at the hotel, the bride and groom to be were already there together with a sprinkling of their friends and family. I have known the bride most of my life and we know lots of the same people – so it was wonderful to be able to share their special day and see lots of friends too. The hotel was spectacular, situated right there on the beachfront combining architecturally the old with the new. The weather was also perfect which is saying something for the north of England in the middle of summer. So after checking in and checking out our rooms, we started to celebrate the nuptials with the other wedding guests. The couple has a four-year-old daughter, Molly and a few other children were also invited and catered for well with tailor made goody
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bags, an old fashioned ice cream cart and, playing on a continuous loop in an adjacent room – that must see film Sparkle. The adults had a fine time too. The ceremony was lovely and there was not a dry eye in the house when we watched the bride, Elisabeth walking down the aisle to stand next to her husband to be, Jeremy to exchange their vows. In true wedding fashion, we all sat down to a late lunch, and speeches while the DJ set up the evenings entertainment, made even more fun with a “photo booth” which provided endless entertainment and also a brilliant keepsake for the guests and the happy couple. The next day we said goodbye to friends old and new and before long it was time to wave off the happy couple as they drove away for their honeymoon, a little exhausted maybe, but excited about the prospect of spending the rest of their lives together.
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By Jay Bobbin
The Going Is ‘Good’ for David Hyde Pierce In His TV Return How much difference does a decade make for a familiar actor? David Hyde Pierce is about to supply an answer. A four-time Emmy winner as Niles on Frasier, the television and stage star starts his first continuing series job since as he joins CBS’ The Good Wife Sunday, Nov. 2. He’ll recur as media personality Frank Prady, who decides he can have more impact by entering Chicago politics ... attracting the attention of Alicia and Eli (Julianna Margulies and Alan Cumming). Also preparing for his Broadway directing debut with next spring’s musical It Shoulda Been You, Tony Award recipient Pierce confirms a big reason for his Good Wife involvement is that “it shoots in New York, and that is very appealing. I remember when we were doing Frasier, the casting director and the producers had a big attraction to bringing in New York theater actors. “It was always about what they brought to playing the scenes more than just name recognition, and that’s what I’m loving about this show,” adds Pierce. “The core actors are all so fine, many of them — like Alan, Julianna, Christine Baranski and Chris Noth — with solid grounding in the theater. Maybe I’m prejudiced, but I think that says something about why they’re so good. And at the simplest level, these
people are my friends, so it’s a group I wanted to hang out with.” Discovering his Good Wife character as he films is “a lot of fun,” Pierce claims. “It forces you to let go and just trust the writing, trust your fellow actors and trust your instincts. It’s a kind of television that’s new for me, and I’m really enjoying it.” Though his Niles portrayal remains on view in Frasier repeats, Pierce feels enough time has passed for him to build a new home-screen image. “I’ve been away from acting the character for so long, maybe the mannerisms and voice patterns have faded away. Also, it’s 10 years since we finished the show, but it’s been 20 years or more since we started it ... so I’m significantly older than in those reruns people keep seeing. That’s a little depressing, but it helps.” David Hyde Pierce begins a recurring role on The Good Wife Sunday on CBS.
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By Arlena Smith
Welcome to Shondaland Thursday nights have been dubbed TGIT (Thank God It’s Thursday) a different mantra from the usual TGIF. Why? You ask. Well, because there is a new TV queen who has taken television drama by storm and her name is Shonda Rhimes. The driving creative force behind one of the most successful television medical dramas since ER, you may have heard of it – Grey’s Anatomy. Well the screenwriting queen is also behind Scandal, which everyone thinking they are “GLADIATORS in a suit” and the newest show
How To Get Away with Murder is now steaming up
Communications Director leaves to start her own
and has television fans obsessed over Thursday
Crisis Management Firm, Olivia Pope & Associates.
nights. Of course, writing comes easy for the lifelong
But no matter how hard she tries, she can’t leave
storyteller, who was tape-recording stories for her
parts of her past behind. Her torrid love affair with
parents to transcribe before she even learned to
Fitz, the President of the United States is only the tip
spell, yet entering into the world of show business
of the scandalous iceberg. With both shows doing
proved a formidable task for the artist who wasn't
well dominating the TV ratings on Thursday nights,
used to the idea of dealing with network executives.
this fall Shonda proved that her imagination has lim-
Shonda debuted Grey’s Anatomy in March 2005,
ited boundaries when she debuted How To Get
and it is now in its 11th season. The series follows
Away with Murder starring Viola Davis, has already
the lives of the medical interns and residents at Grey
been getting a lot of buzz. Viola Davis is a law profes-
Sloan Memorial Hospital as they try to balance their
sor at a prestigious university in Philadelphia who
personal lives with the demands of their medical
with her students becomes entwined in a murder
training. After the wild success of the show the tal-
plot that will change the course of their lives forever.
ented Rhimes penned the spin off Private Practice
Never before has a screenwriter been this infa-
another medical based drama, which also had a
mous, with Thursday night comprising entirely of
stellar run. Shonda then came back with Scandal
shows from her Shondaland Production banner.
starring Kerry Washington or as we all know her
With the way she had managed to keep our atten-
Olivia Pope. The show takes place in Washington,
tion with each new adventure – I think it’s safe to say
DC where Miss Pope who was once the White House
she owns Thursday night.
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Weekly Suduko
The objective is to fill the full 9x9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3x3 “sub-grids” that compose the main grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9 – with no repeats within each row or column within the entire square. A partially completed grid is usually provided, which typically has a unique solution. See next weeks Limin’ Times issue for solution. 17
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