/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/812796/-/bsoq9j/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Looking+for+Uganda+s+fairest+teenage+beauty/-/812796/1409702/-/n4idtn/-/index.html Always jumping at any opportunity to hang out, teenagers flocked Garden City roof top hours before most headed to school for second term. The event was launch of the first ever Miss Teen Beauty Contest. The main event is to be held during the next holiday after school tours to choose contestants. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Suzan+Kerunen+in+Cancer+Benefit+concert/-/812796/1409712/-/gko7w8/-/index.html Whereas other singers call on fans to support them in concert to launch their latest albums, Suzan Kerunen is doing it differently - she is tying a good cause to her concert. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Big+Brother++Excitement+in+Downville/-/812796/1405912/-/cqd66i/-/index.html If Big Brother Star Game is a car, then its drivers (housemates) started from fifth gear. Everyone is trying to stamp their foot on the house and the game. And with $300,000 (about Shs740m) at stake, who can blame them? 2012-05-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/And+then+they+were+22/-/812796/1405898/-/kqtn72/-/index.html The finalists for this year’s Miss Uganda crown were unveiled at Guvnor on Friday night. Brenda Nanyonjo, the franchise holder, says they chose 22 ladies from pre-selections across the country because a few ladies drop out drop out along the way for different reasons. Usually, only 20 ladies are selected to take part in the finals, however, an extra two were selected as back up. 2012-05-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Music+fest+in+Jinja+Town/-/812796/1403792/-/321si7/-/index.html In actuality the festival was two things, the final show for a youth and hip hop project that went on for two weeks and then there was the arts festival that brought with it a retinue of guest artists from three east African countries, Kenya Uganda and Tanzania. 2012-05-11T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Dr+Ntangaare+for+vetting+artists/-/812796/1403788/-/hllvps/-/index.html There are quite a number of things not functioning properly in Uganda’s theatre industry, especially the business side. But we’re not doomed. We only need to be a bit organised. For example, if we love the industry and the profession of theatre we should set minimum standards (of operation and doing business) as well as a code of conduct. 2012-05-11T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/The+Firm+will+keep+you+on+knife+s+edge/-/812796/1403802/-/b7iii4z/-/index.html This television series is adapted from John Grisham’s best seller bearing the same title. The series is a continuation of the book and the highly successful film in which Tom Cruise played lead man. 2012-05-11T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Representing+Uganda++A+surprise++unknown++pair/-/812796/1401776/-/ljibgw/-/index.html Kyle Duncan Kushaba co-host of Skizzy, a lifestyle show on local TV and Jannette Georgina Lutaaya, a dancer are Uganda’s bets at bringing home a jackpot of $300,000 (about Shs740m from the Big Brother house. 2012-05-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Bebe+Cool+reigns+supreme+in+as+Bobi+resorts+to+talk/-/812796/1400736/-/5xxaao/-/index.html Friday’s Battle of Champions concert had no surprises because the speculation that the two musical rivals, Bebe Cool and Bobi Wine, would make up anytime soon is far from reality. 2012-05-06T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Big+Brother+starts+tomorrow/-/812796/1399442/-/fq9j6lz/-/index.html There is a war in Somalia, Mali; people are fighting in Sudan and it sometimes feels like the whole of Africa is at war but a game-show will, on Sunday, bring people from different African countries together---Big Brother Africa Season Seven that is. 2012-05-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Mukulu+on+Ugandan+theatre+trends/-/812796/1399294/-/u82rsoz/-/index.html Jewel: Uganda’s leading contemporary playwright actor/director and singer contends that theatre has not been able to adopt the current difficult economic and political situation for stage. Mukulu, who has staged over 30 plays locally and around the world, is currently working on a production to commemorate Uganda’s 50th independence anniversary this year. He talked to Bamuturaki Musinguzi. Excerpts: 2012-05-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/Film+a+long+way+from+perfect/-/812796/1399446/-/oc68le/-/index.html A Ugandan film has received six nominations in different categories for the Pearl Awards due in South Africa sometime this year. The categories include best director, leading actor etc. Great news, isn’t it? Although the Ugandan film industry is making such good strides, it is yet to get near the third biggest player in the world, Nigeria. 2012-05-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1396934/-/411qy1/-/index.html Cliches become inapplicable when you attend such exquisitely put-together shows like Golden Voices, the extravaganza of vocal artistry unveiled and rediscovered, which was at the Emin Pasha Hotel last Friday as the second edition of the Qwela Junction concept. 2012-04-30T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1396288/-/411lld/-/index.html Thursday night was a night of local swag at Jazzville restaurant in Bugolobi as a number of people from the audience took to the stage to give their artistic expressions during the monthly Kwivuga Poetry Session. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1396284/-/411ll9/-/index.html He can clap, shake his shoulders, legs and generally groove and then he is a good story teller, which naturally makes him a good lyricist and entertainer. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1396280/-/411ll5/-/index.html Jose Chameleone seems more focused on building a strong business empire after he finally launched his own branded range of mobile phones under the brand Chameleone Mobile. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1394902/-/410d8y/-/index.html ‘It is not part of our culture’, ‘Our religion does not accept it’, ‘It’s disgusting’, ‘it is for the whites.’ These are some of the common statements used to respond to homosexuality. 2012-04-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1394900/-/410d8w/-/index.html Have you ever imagined a six year old playing a piano accurately without missing a note? Well, just like you, I was surprised when I saw Elizabeth Namulindwa, playing the piano. 2012-04-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1394898/-/410con/-/index.html People who fork out Shs100,000 for a concert ticket are usually the type either allergic or immune to what the Basoga call ekinyegenyege (the irresistible urge to dance along). 2012-04-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1394896/-/410col/-/index.html The mention of his name elicits a mention of Kadongo Kamu music genre, the local ‘one-beat’ music version of the popular country music. Lord Fred Sebatta is one of the surviving icons of Kadongo Kamu but even as the genre weakens both in content and listenership the musical lord is still going strong. 2012-04-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1387102/-/40fq1i/-/index.html At 10pm I went to Amnesia. What greeted me was a volleyball net, a bevy of revelers- party animals- in beach wear, and a few banana leaves decoratively lined in the nightclub and girls smiling with baskets full of fruit. 2012-04-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1387082/-/40fpg5/-/index.html Maureen Aturinda beat seven girls to the crown of Ms Uganda western. Aturinda, 23, pursuing Bachelor of Information Technology Degree at Mbarara University of Sciences and Technology (MUST), was a crowd’s favourite not only because of her physical appeal but also given the mature way she answered questions. 2012-04-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1387092/-/40fph1/-/index.html In 1965 Tony Senkebejje entered a recording studio in Nairobi to record one of his first songs titled Eva. “I was seven years old that year,” Hope Mukasa says. 24 years later, in 1989, Senkebejje with Afrigo Band recorded Twali Twagalana at Mukasa’s Mixed Talents/Bava studios. 2012-04-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1367492/-/3y7pt8/-/index.html In union there is strength, so they say. Our contemporary artistes are teaming up to share skills on one stage. The new concept, dubbed The Percussion Gurus, Qwela Junction which will feature some of the celebrated percussionists in the country. 2012-03-16T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/-/812796/1367494/-/3y7pta/-/index.html Thirty four years of artistry will be celebrated on screen and a chance for the average theatre goer to reminisce of times gone by. 2012-03-16T21:00:00Z