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Toots & The Maytals: Funky Kingston

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Singer-songwriter for Toots & The Maytals, multi-instrumentalist and reggae pioneer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert has passed away in Kingston, Jamaica—the birthplace of the music he helped create. His 1968 song “Do The Reggay” remains widely believed to be the first to namecheck reggae (at the time a fledgling genre influenced by mento—Jamaican folk music that combines elements from Africa and Europe—as well as jazz and R&B, …

Red Stripe Brewery, Kingston

An inside look at the Jamaican beer brand's restored brewery

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Consumers place a premium on authenticity these days, especially when it comes to food and drink. So back in 2015 when a few avid Red Stripe Beer drinkers found out that the “Jamaican Style Lager” had been produced in Pennsylvania for three years, they filed a class action lawsuit for being mislead. A year later, Heineken acquired the beer brand and vowed to bring production …