Journal
Original essays across music, food, Carnival, travel, language, history, heritage, and the diaspora.
FeaturedCarnival / Trinidad & Tobago
By the time Carnival feels close, the good decisions have already been made by other people — a season-long campaign, run forward from the group chat to the road.
2026-05-31 / 5 min read
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CarnivalBarbados
Revived in 1974 from a sugar-harvest festival that had nearly died out, Crop Over now employs half the island's creativity for months. Kadooment Day is just the season's last page.
2026-05-16 / 5 min read
CarnivalSaint Lucia
The visitor who sprints the week loses Tuesday. A pacing plan for Saint Lucia's July carnival, from Gros Islet Friday to the sacred Sunday rest day before J'ouvert.
2026-05-15 / 5 min read
CarnivalGrenada
Jab Jab reads as spectacle to anyone with no context. Inside the tradition, it's inherited satire aimed straight at the plantation that invented the word 'devil' for its own enslaved people.
2026-05-14 / 5 min read