Email Author Judy Cantor

1999 Stories by Judy Cantor

• Return Engagement

  published November 11, 1999

  Watching as the imbroglio surrounding Los Van Van's Miami concert played out on local television last month, Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba felt... More >>

• X-er Voters

  published November 11, 1999

  Psychedelic clothes may be hip on college campuses, but the political activism that went with them in the Sixties apparently is not. The sobering... More >>

• The Bard of Memorial Park

  published November 4, 1999

  I will anxiously wait to see the light of dawn, of every dawn. That the smell of life should excite me when it... More >>

• Cesaria Evora

  published October 21, 1999

  To those saddened by the news of fado queen Amalia Rodrigues's death earlier this month, consolation comes with this CD. Rest assured the soul of... More >>

• Kulchur

  published October 14, 1999

  I was playing a show in Miami in the theater of divine comedy.... -- Bob Dylan, "Caribbean Wind" A tailgate party with... More >>

• Sacred Gowns

  published October 7, 1999

  Eusebio Escobar sits at the sewing machine in his Kendall workshop, smoking a cigarette and listening to Sarah Brightman's pop arias with the... More >>

• Van Van Plays On

  published October 7, 1999

  The 1000 people in the audience last Thursday night at the Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vermont, didn't know much about the Cuban band Los Van... More >>

• Hurricane Van Van

  published September 23, 1999

  Miami Mayor Joe Carollo needs to brush up on basic civics, not to mention civility. Appearing recently as a guest on Radio Mambí's (WAQI-AM... More >>

• All About Yoruba

  published September 23, 1999

  Choreographer and dancer Neri Torres wants you to enjoy a rumba. But she also wants Miami audiences to remember that the blood-stirring music and... More >>

• Miami Maestro

  published August 26, 1999

  Cuban band leader Roberto Torres rarely performs in Miami these days, but on a recent morning he is eager to reprise his personal hit parade for... More >>

• Fêt Farm

  published August 26, 1999

  On a recent morning in Little Haiti, geese honk, a rooster crows, and a goat named Michelle Jordan pokes around the kitchen of the Earth N' Us... More >>

• Blades Sharpens New Image

  published August 19, 1999

  Ruben Blades's Tiempos may surprise fans who identify the singer with the socially conscious salsa that was his trademark in the Eighties,... More >>

• Son Sung Blue

  published August 12, 1999

  In 1995 Juan-Carlos Formell came to Miami for six weeks from New York City to perform Cuban classics with his band at Calle Ocho's Café... More >>

• La Raza Rocks On

  published July 29, 1999

  Throughout the Nineties, the wide-ranging music collectively known as rock en español, Latin rock, or more recently, alterlatino,... More >>

• Rotations

  published July 29, 1999

  Los Zafiros Bossa Cubana (World Circuit/Nonesuch) The London-based World Circuit label has had phenomenal success with... More >>

• Focus on Cuba

  published July 22, 1999

  Until recently images of contemporary Cuba were in short supply on this side of the straits. Cuba was mostly a place imagined, created in the... More >>

• Pump Art

  published July 15, 1999

  "I've always wanted to do a shoe show," says Barbara Young, Miami-Dade Public Library System's art services director, who admits to having... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 8, 1999

  thursday july 8 New Orleans's swingingest ensemble, Los Hombres Calientes, brings its jazzy Afro-Cuban stylings to the summer... More >>

• Portrait of the Artist As a Communist Bureaucrat

  published June 24, 1999

  As his duties frequently require, Cuban Minister of Culture Abel Prieto Jimenez was recently called on to preside over a meeting of artists in... More >>

• Welcome to the Bureaucracy:

  published June 24, 1999

  On June 30, 1961, Fidel Castro uttered these words: "Within the revolution everything, against the revolution nothing." Seldom quoted in... More >>

• Artists, Ideas, and Subversion

  published June 24, 1999

  In 1992 Congress passed the Cuban Democracy Act, a complicated piece of legislation that attempted to tighten the U.S. commercial embargo against... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 24, 1999

  thursday june 24 Yearning for the days when drunk South Beach pioneers gyrated on restaurant tables to the speed-flamenco strains of... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 17, 1999

  thursday june 17 The Florida Dance Festival continues this week, incorporating films and discussions with a bevy of dance... More >>

• Salsa Hard and Fast

  published June 17, 1999

  On one typically addictive track of trombonist Jimmy Bosch's upcoming album, piano and brass embrace like an inspired couple on the dance floor,... More >>

• Fingers of Fury

  published June 10, 1999

  On a recent afternoon, pianist Chucho Valdes gives a master class to students at Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte. Valdes sits casually before... More >>