Retro-inspired trailers are a dime a dozen these days, but nothing beats an original. And for fans of mid-century design, we have the camper for you: a hand-restored 1950 Westcraft Capistrano Calypso ...
Call it a labor of love or call it, before anything else, a sound investment. A very rare and beautifully restored 1950 Westcraft Capistrano Calypso trailer can now be yours, if money is of no ...
"Very tall, very grand -- no shoes." By Ashley Lee Maya Angelou — writer, poet, activist, yes. “Most people know of Maya Angelou as an incredible poet and writer, but this clip shows a lesser-known ...
But it didn’t pan out. In May 1957, a banner headline in Variety screamed that “Calypso is Stone Dead”. By the year’s end, the calypso fad went the way of all fads. The Trinidad-born music did not go ...
Miriam Bassett-Tucker was one of the island’s best-known calypso dancers in the 1950s. Today, few of the younger generation know her name. Atlantic Publishing House is looking to change that. She’s ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Researchers at two Indiana universities are sharing more than $630,000 in funding for projects including one exploring the life of naturalist Henry David Thoreau and one studying ...
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - The black-clad old man crept gingerly onto stage wearing a mournful expression, more funeral director than musical legend. Sign up here. Then Shadow, a Calypso legend, jolts ...
In 1956, calypso battled it out with rock ’n’ roll to become America’s hottest musical craze. As the year ended, newspaper reports quoted pundits predicting it would wipe Elvis and his like out. One ...
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) — The black-clad old man crept gingerly onto stage wearing a mournful expression, more funeral director than musical legend.Then Shadow, a Calypso legend, jolts to life with an ...