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Jan 21 - 27, 2016 Vol. 28, No. 21

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To our islands’ Happenings

Firebird Performing Arts Studio Latin Weekend with Special Guest Instructor

Yaron Halevi (NYC)

Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th

Also THis week: Blues Cruise @ Myett’s • Glen “kwabena” davis @ HlsCC Vi showcase • Foxy’s Taboo Full Moon Masquerade

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This Week’s Feature Story by Arlena Smith

Jeff Ross at Elms Looking for something to do this weekend? Then head on down to Elms in Cane Garden Bay on Friday or Sunday to enjoy the musical styling’s of Jeff Ross alongside the Elmtones. Singer and guitarist Jeff Ross, infuses every note with his singular experience and energy with a shared passion for song.

Ross who has spent his entire life surrounded by music and for a time performed as a solo artist in Europe and in the U.S., was looking for a fresh start outside the bureaucracy and politics of the record

Jeff Ross and Lou Reed

industry. He found Nantucket a welcome respite.

member band “the Atlantics,” who are a versatile and

Initially he came to write music for a friend’s company,

experienced band playing all types of genres such as

and soon after became involved with the close-knit

jazz, reggae, funk, R&B and Rock.

community of musicians on the island.

Jeff mostly plays covers, as well as, mixing in his

In the early days of his career Jeff played with the

own music at intervals on any given night. His self-

likes of legendary guitarist Lou Reed, who brought us

titled CD Hideaway has gotten great reviews. When

hits such as Walk on the Wild Side, Perfect Day and

he’s not in the BVI, he continues to play with The

Sunday Morning and sat in with Bob Marley’s Wailers.

Wailers, and other popular bands around the country.

Jeff has been writing music for most of his career and

Head on down the Cane Garden Bay and don’t

once said he finds the winters on Nantucket a time to

miss your chance to catch the talented Jeff Ross at

refresh himself alongside other musicians both on

Elms on Friday and Sunday nights from 7 to10pm

and off the island. He usually performs with his five-

alongside the Elmtones.

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Vol. 28, No. 21 • Jan 21 - 27, 2016

Ask Koren

Your personal E-therapist, is in the house!

I Hate Her Weave Ask Koren

tinue what she is doing because her independence is being challenged and she wants to prove she can stand up for herself.

Whether I agree or not is not important, as you are not in the relationship with me. I do agree that you have the right to have preferences and like what you like – by all means; its just the way you deal with it and communicate your feelings can make a huge difference. I accept that the weave is uncomfortable to you and that it bothers you that she beats it and it scratches your face. A possible solution – put your face somewhere else. People change, grow and transition and how we meet them is not always how they will be a year later. I’m sure if you asked her, she would be able to identify things about you that have also changed, she just might not be raising a national alarm because of it. Women also like to experiment with different looks. Bear with her because you might be a wonderful boyfriend, but you are not perfect.

Bear with her also, because she is worth it and she is more than just her hair.

Dear Koren, When I met my girlfriend she had her hair natural and she is a beautiful woman. Now for the past 3 or 4 months she has gotten into this weave thing. I hate the weave. She is always beating it, it scratches my face and we can’t swim or romp like we used to because of how much money she spend on her weave, etc. I told her she is supposed to be beautiful for me and that she is selfish and it started an argument. I don’t expect you as woman to agree with me, but women need to consider how the man met them and if it is fair to just switch up who they are later on.

–Natural Guy Dear Natural Guy, It sounds like a fair exchange to me – you have to deal with the weave and she has to deal with your inflexible and seemingly controlling attitude. On second thought, you still have it better off, because the weave does not talk back.

My advice to you is to learn to see the beauty in your girlfriend no matter how she wears her hair. What is on the outside can change, but what is more important, is what is on the inside. Focus more on her heart than her hair. When you treat a woman with love and respect, she goes out of her way to try to please you, even at the cost of her own comfort. When you attack her, she is likely to get defensive and defiant and con-

Lime ... “to hang around idly” or “to go out on the town.”

Source: The Dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole by the late educator and historian Lito Valls.

The Limin’ Times brings you all the news about when and where to “lime” in the British Virgin Islands.

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Sincerely, Koren Send your questions to askkoren@live.com or follow us on twitter @korennorton and a response will be provided

While every effort is made to ensure that information is correct, we cannot accept responsibility for any errors, changes in schedules, ads or other information in this magazine, which is intended as a guide only. If you have an entertainment event coming up that you would like published, give us a call at 494-2413. Special Notice: Purchase of advertising space in this publication does not guarantee editorial coverage of any event.

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Vol. 28, No. 21 • Jan 21 - 27, 2016

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By Jane Bakewell

Myetts – House of the Blues The Blues Cruise is in town and takes the stage at Myett’s on Thursday, the 21st from 12pm to 5pm.

Headliners include, BVI’s own MJ Blues, Kansas City blues guitarist/singer Danielle Nicole, Chicago Blues club icon, Toronzo Cannon and Boogie Woogie jazz pianist, Mitch Woods. Woods will also be in the house on Friday, the 22nd introducing songs from his CD “Gumbo Blues.” Gear up for Chris Klein and the Boulevards rocking the house on Thursday, the 28th and Friday the 29th. Klein and his band put out a New Orleans style funk rock, with saxophone, Latin flutes and blues harps. Evening performances begin at 7pm.

Full Moon @ Foxy’s Taboo Pull your masquerade masks out of storage and get set for a Full Moon Masquerade, Sunday the 24th at Diamond Cay, where the Taboo crowd will be limin’.

Enjoy a sumptuous Caribbean BBQ Buffet at $30 per person and starlight dancing on the sand floor, with a jammin’ DJ pumping out the tunes. A water taxi is available from the West End for $50 per person round trip (reservations required). Call 546-1904. For more details call Foxy’s at 495-9258.

Firebird Performing Arts UP’s Complex is home for the recently opened Firebird Performing Arts – a multi-faceted dance school and performing arts theatre, which will serve as a home for the CADA Players in the new Firebird Studio Theatre. The dance school offers a broad range of dance classes for children, such as “Show Biz Kids” bringing singing and dancing together and ballroom and social dance classes for adults. Don’t miss the upcoming “Latin Weekend” from Friday 22nd through

Sunday the 24th. Guest Instructor, Yaron Halevi from NYC is teaching evening classes in Kizomba, Bachata, and Salsa on the 23rd and 24th beginning at 7pm (hour-long classes) Classes for the weekend are $10 each. Come Friday night for a Latin Dance party beginning at 9pm. Call Sarah Penny for more information at 346-6666.

Glen “Kwabena” Davis @ HLSCC The Performing Arts Series continues this week with the annual Virgin Island Showcase on Saturday, the 23rd featuring VI storyteller and musician Glen “Kwabena” Davis. This 60-year- old Calypsonian has a wealth of knowledge of VI traditions and customs and weaves them into his poetical music pieces. The show starts at 7pm and tickets cost $20.

Art Show at Sugar Works The Sugar Works Museum in Lower Estate is currently featuring the exhibit “One Woman One Show,” a retrospect of the work of local multi-media artist, Carol Vanterpool. The show is open to public from (contd. on page 15) 7

Vol. 28, No. 21 • Jan 21 - 27, 2016

live music • events • concerts •

THURSDAY - JAN 21 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm UP’S BALLROOM — Firebird Performing Arts Latin Night Dance Party 9pm (See ad on pg 10) SUGAR WORKS MUSEUM — Art Show “One Woman One Show” from 8:30am-3pm. Show open until Jan 31.

CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Blues Cruise Day! Serving International & Caribbean breakfast/brunch/lunch & dinner daily.

Sunset happier hour with live music by Candyman 4-7. Mitch Woods live on stage 7pm QUITO’S — Open from 11am for lunch & dinner.

Live Music by Marcus Mark at lunch and Happy Hour.

ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm & 2 for $5 Carib Beer. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm WEST END D’BEST CUP — Open daily from 7am till 5pm for great coffee and delicious breakfasts till 2pm.

PUSSERS — George Worthmore from 6:30-8:30pm VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar” Glenn Lamonthe FRIDAY - JAN 22 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm BVI RED CROSS — Men’s Health Fair 6am-3pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Serving International & Caribbean breakfast/brunch/lunch & dinner daily. Sunset happier hour with ‘Drastic’. Tortola’s own ‘Evolution Band’ 7pm Limbo and Dance Contest

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QUITO’S — Open from 11am for lunch & dinner.

Live music by Oren Hodge at lunch. Cave Stoutt for Happy Hour. Quito and The Edge 8:30 ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm.

Beach BBQ. Music by Jeff Ross 7-10pm SATURDAY - JAN 23 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm BVI RED CROSS — Men’s Health Fair 6am-3pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Serving International & Caribbean breakfast/brunch/lunch & dinner daily. Sunset happier hour with live music by Drastic 4-7. Tortola’s own ‘Evolution Band’ 7pm QUITO’S — Open from 11am for lunch & dinner.

Live music by King Paido at lunch. Too Smooth for Happy Hour.

ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm.

PARAQUITA BAY HLSCC — HLSCC VI Showcase w/ Glen ‘Kwabena’ Davis at 7pm SUNDAY - JAN 24 WEST END PUSSERS — Happy Hour w/ Pan Vibes 12-3pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Serving International & Caribbean breakfast/brunch/lunch & dinner daily. Volley Ball, Boche Ball, & Corn Hole on the beach. Sunset happier hour 4-7 with Vishall on the beach bar.

QUITO’S — Open from 11am for lunch & dinner.

Live music by Marlon/Pan Man at lunch.

ts • parties • sports • movies and more

ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:306pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm. Beach BBQ. Music by Jeff Ross 7-10pm VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar” Geoff Day FOXY’S TABOO (JVD) — Full Moon Masquerade Party with Caribbean Buffetts, Dancing & DJ Music MONDAY - JAN 25 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm WEST END PUSSERS — George Worthmore from 6:30-8:30pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Serving International & Caribbean breakfast/brunch/lunch & dinner daily. Sunset happier hour with live music by ‘Candyman’ 4-7. Mexican Monday 2 for 1 Specialty Margaritas and Mexican Munchies. Live music show on stage by “Al The Singing Chef” QUITO’S — Open from 11am for lunch & dinner.

Music by Marcus Mark for lunch. Caave Stoutt for Happy Hour VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar” Glenn Lamonthe TUESDAY - JAN 26 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm SUGAR WORKS MUSEUM — Art Show “Wine Is Best Paired With Art” reception 5-7:30pm

WEST END PUSSERS — George Worthmore live from 6:308:30pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Serving International & Caribbean breakfast/brunch/lunch & dinner daily. Sunset happier hour with live music by ‘Candyman’ 4-7.

QUITO’S — Open from 11am for lunch & dinner.

Live music by Marcus Mark for lunch and Happy Hour. Quito Solo 7:30pm ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm & 2 for $5 Carib Beer. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm.

VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar” Glenn Lamonthe WEDNESDAY - JAN 27 CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Serving International & Caribbean breakfast/brunch/lunch & dinner daily. Sunset happier hour with live music by ‘Candyman’ 4-7.

WEST END PUSSERS — George Worthmore live from 6:308:30pm QUITO’S — Open from 11am for lunch & dinner.

Live music by Marcus Mark for lunch. Quito at Happy Hour. Too Smooth at 7:30 ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm.

VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar” Geoff Day

UPCOMING HAPPENINGS

Dancing Under the Stars Jan 29

Chris Klein & the Boulevards @ Myett’s — Jan 28 & 29 NTL Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Jan 30 Tradewinds Radio Cruisers Party at Myett’s — Jan 30 ECamps BVI Presents The Wiz — Jan 31 & Feb 7 Tortola Pier Park Grand Opening — Feb 16 Annual Easter Festival — Mar 26-28

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Vol. 28, No. 21 • Jan 21 - 27, 2016

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By Claudia Colli

The BVI in 3-D I love the sea. I am an avid snorkeler, and enjoy nothing more than putting on my mask and snorkel and floating over the BVI’s incredible reefs. Shortly after I arrived in the BVI, I went on my first snorkeling expedition. It was at Smugglers Cove and I was anxious that I wouldn’t stay afloat, that my mask would fill with water, that I would swim out over the reef and not be able to get back in. And then there were the sharks! Of course, none of these things happened.

Instead, I was blown away by what I saw through my mask: the elkhorn, brain and fire corals, graceful sea fans, apricot colored sponges and the green and blue parrot fish that looked like characters from Sesame Street.

It was like watching a program, popular in the 1970s and 80s produced by the famed French underwater explorer, Jacques Cousteau – which at the time had been my only knowledge of the world’s coral reefs. Since then, the reef at Smugglers Cove, like many of the BVI’s reefs has deteriorated, victim of hurricanes and coral bleaching and other environmental stresses to its delicately balanced environment.

Recently I got an entirely new perspective on the BVI’s underwater world through Koen Van Staen, group manager at the Centre for Fisheries and Aquatic Science (CEFAS) in the UK. CEFAS is working with the National Parks Trust to map the BVI’s seabed, and the imagery that they are producing is breathtaking.

There are 3-D photographs of the RMS Rhone in startling colors, as well as eye-popping views of the seabed showing its depth and contours. The group has even discovered the remains of a previously unknown shipwreck, perhaps dating to the 18th or 19th century.

Among CEFAS’s objectives is to collect modern hydrographic data using state-of the-art technology in selected areas of the BVI’s seabed. The information is incalculably useful for ship navigation. Large vessels like cruise ships, cargo vessels and mega yachts want to know where there are rocks and other obstructions to shipping lanes. The National Parks Trust, however, is interested in previously unknown areas of coral reef and sea grass beds that need protecting, and the Department of Conservation and Fisheries can use the same information to determine which areas to protect for fish nurseries. Impressively, the research has increased the BVI’s known areas of sea grass by 800%. The information gives these and other government departments a “baseline” to monitor future changes – both positive and negative.

CEFAS also filmed the seabed with high tech underwater cameras. It’s a bit like a Cousteau documentary, but without the accompanying narrative.

These videos are available for all to see on YouTube. It seems that I can now get an up close view of the BVI’s underwater world without my snorkel and mask.

To view the CEFAS videos go to YouTube and search for “BVI Underwater - Darwin Plus.”

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Vol. 28, No. 21 • Jan 21 - 27, 2016

Category: Movie Actors

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By Jane Bakewell

Little Boy In a new wave of “faith-based cinema,” (a.k.a.

War Room), the film, Little Boy develops a story line around the concept that “faith can move mountains,” even if you’re a naïve boy with great odds stacked against you. The time era is WW II just after the Pearl Harbor attack. The setting is a fictional town in California called O’Hare. James Busbee (David Henrie) has just been called up for service in the war, as his eldest son was refused for being flat-footed. His small son Pepper (Jakob Salvati) – literally very small for his seven years, is devastated by his father’s leaving, as his father is his “partner” and only friend due to the relentless bullying he endures by the other kids for his small stature.

Emma Busbee (Emily Watson) plays the stoic wife trying to make the best out of the situation. Pepper’s hope for bringing his father home is stirred by a church sermon on faith. He meets with Father Oliver (James Wilkinson) and asks how he can imitate the biblical story of a mustard seed of faith being enough to move a mountain. Father Oliver gives him what he calls the “magic paper,” a list of the seven biblical works of mercy (i.e. feed the hungry, care for the ill, visit those in prison, etc.) and adds on a very hard one – befriend Hashimoto, a Japanese-American man just released from an internment camp and shunned by the town’s residents. If he completes the list he will have increased the faith he needs.

His favorite comic book hero, a magician, fuels the young boy’s sense that the miraculous can be achieved. So when challenged by bullies to move a mountain, he maintains the extended-arm magician

stance, squeezes his eyes and grunts with all his might at the mountain in the distance. Everyone laughs until a small earthquake makes the streets rumble and dishes fall and some are convinced the mountain actually shifts. Pepper is pumped – it works! However, there are more challenges ahead, as Pepper works on befriending the reclusive Hashimoto, who slowly warms to the boy and acts as a mentor and one determined to help him complete his list.

Mexican director, Alejandro Monteverde, weaves a feel-good story with many poignant moments. The film accurately depicts the shameful war era racism against Japanese citizens. Pepper, the small bullied one, laughed at and ridiculed, is the real hero, who keeps his one-track mission to get his father home, when all possibilities seem exhausted.

Accomplishing all the to do’s on his “magic list” transforms him and in the end, the whole community is impacted.

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Vol. 28, No. 21 • Jan 21 - 27, 2016

By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway

The “Goalie” Javelin Thrower Peters threw the Javelin a respectable 35.26m. It was When the 2015 BVI Football Association season the fifth best mark ever by a BVI female. ended last April for Virgin Gorda's Britney Peters, she During Friday night’s BVI Athletics Association didn't go away and sit quietly awaiting the start of the Development Series meet, Peters heaved the 600g fall league like her teammates and foes. spear out to 37.39m, throwing into a strong cross She had other plans, a bigger focus and other wind. That mark vaulted her No. 3 on the BVI All Time goals.

List.

“I wanted to maintain my fitness, get stronger for “I know I have the ability to do good,” said Peters.

Football and I wanted to keep training so I wouldn’t “I have the arm strength and my hands are good. Of fall behind because I’m to try and get out of here by all the events I’ve done, I like the Javelin September on a scholarship,” said best. I find it interesting.”

Peters who started Football at 12 years.

She will be in action again this The soon to be 19 year old is a Friday night at the A. O. Shirley Football goalie and has played on the Recreation Grounds in the next BVI Jr. and Sr. Women National teams.

Development Series meet at 6 p.m. With She plays with the Avengers in the BVI her versatility, Peters is also experiFootball Association League. menting with the Heptathlon—a two While she’s new to track and field, in day competition involving seven disciher quest to maintain fitness, Peters plines—four of which are contested on took up track last April after the 2015 Day 1. These include: 100m Hurdles, Football season ended and joined the High Jump, Shot Put and 200m. Day 2 Raw Skillz Track Club, coached by Erwin Football Goalie Britney Peters events are the Long Jump, Javelin Throw “Redz” Telemaque. Peters jumped into and 800m. Points are awarded based on times, marks action to keep her fitness, running the three and three or throws with an accumulated score. quarters laps 1500m. She wasn’t worried about winKanishque Todman improved her own National ning, nor her final time. Her goal was maintaining her Record to 4,188 points in 2013 and Arianna Hayde fitness level and track offered that plus the camascored 3769 during the 2014 Carifta Games. raderie on the close knit Raw Skillz Track Club.

It will be interesting to see Peter’s development.

Besides the 1500m Peters experimented with the Her position as a Football goalie, always has her 800m, Shot Put, Long Jump and the Javelin Throw, all under pressure. Her cross sports fertilization isn’t of which contributed to her all around fitness. anything unusual as we have had athletes that have She had her first external competition in Miami done both sports and gained athletics scholarships. last June, when she and several members of Raw Peter’s 2015 decision to maintain her fitness is about Skillz teammates participated in Olympic Games to pay dividends.

(400m champion) Sanya Richards-Ross’ camp. There, Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide

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8:30am to 3pm Monday through Friday until January 31st. There will be a special reception planned for Tuesday the 26th from 5pm to 7:30pm, under the theme “Wine is Best Paired with Art.” Come out and lift a toast to a talented local artist.

Green Regatta at Nanny Cay RBVI Yacht Club is having a “Green Regatta” this Saturday the 23rd for intermediate leveled sailors to test their skills on the racecourse in a fun environment. Boats will launch from Nanny Cay beginning at

10am to 2pm. The cost is $25 and includes a lunch BBQ and boat rental. Contact Katelyn at instructor@royalbviyc.org for more information.

Men’s Health Fair The BVI Red Cross is encouraging men around the island to take a serious step forward in health prevention and maintenance by attending the Men’s Health Fair on Friday 22nd and Saturday the 23rd at the BVI Red Cross Headquarters located at John’s Hole. Free screenings and consultations include Prostate Cancer screening, HIV/Aids testing, Diabetes, Cholesterol and BMI checks as well as other consultations. Doors open at 6am to 3 pm each day.