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Crossfade Live: The Cornerstoners and Alukard at Shake at The Vagabond

Jacob KatelCrossfade Live at Shake at The Vagabond February 11.​Welcome to our second edition of Crossfade Live, where we bring you streams and downloads of our original high fidelity concert recordings from bands and venues all over South Florida. We will prove live music thrives here, and hand i ... More >>

Cuba's Los Van Van returns to Miami for the first time in ten years

Jacob KatelCrossfade Live at Shake at The Vagabond February 11.​Welcome to our second edition of Crossfade Live, where we bring you streams and downloads of our original high fidelity concert recordings from bands and venues all over South Florida. We will prove live music thrives here, and hand i ... More >>

Cuba Hates All Florida's Senate Candidates the Same

With months to go before the primary elections, candidates are still locking down endorsement. One bit of support that none of the candidates want though is that of Cuba's government controlled press. Luckily, Granma published a story yesterday critical of all four major candidates. In reaction to ... More >>

News Roundup: Everyones a Hardlinder

Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek all showed up for a US Cuba Democracy PAC luncheon, and when it came to Cuba they all had the same thing to say. [CBS4]FIU will play host to a conference dealing with sex differentiation disorders in sports. [Herald]Police are still looking for the s ... More >>

D. Rodriguez Cuba at Hotel Astor Debuts Tonight

Photos courtesy of Diamond PRSofrito with Mariquitas (bread service)​D-Rod Cuba, as we like to call it, opens in the Hotel Astor on South Beach tonight. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. daily, and through the month of December all first-time diners will get choice of mojito or daiquiri on the house. Tapas ... More >>

What to Hear in Broward and Palm Beach This Weekend

Photos courtesy of Diamond PRSofrito with Mariquitas (bread service)​D-Rod Cuba, as we like to call it, opens in the Hotel Astor on South Beach tonight. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. daily, and through the month of December all first-time diners will get choice of mojito or daiquiri on the house. Tapas ... More >>

Miami-based National Circle of Journalists from Cuba can't find a recipient for its award

Photos courtesy of Diamond PRSofrito with Mariquitas (bread service)​D-Rod Cuba, as we like to call it, opens in the Hotel Astor on South Beach tonight. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. daily, and through the month of December all first-time diners will get choice of mojito or daiquiri on the house. Tapas ... More >>

Alex Cuba

Photos courtesy of Diamond PRSofrito with Mariquitas (bread service)​D-Rod Cuba, as we like to call it, opens in the Hotel Astor on South Beach tonight. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. daily, and through the month of December all first-time diners will get choice of mojito or daiquiri on the house. Tapas ... More >>

Alex Cuba Plays a Free Show on Lincoln Road This Thursday

 Now based in British Columbia, of all places, the singer-songwriter Alex Cuba is surely a long way from the homeland reflected in his stage name. Born in the town of Artemisa some 35 years ago, he grew up on the island with a guitar player father, Valentin Puentes, and took up guitar himself a ... More >>

Fugitive Returns from Cuba After 40 Years and Turns Himself in for '68 Pan Am Hijacking

via Flickr​One of the FBI's longest-known fugitives turned himself into federal law enforcement officers in New York yesterday after hiding in Cuba for more than four decades.Louis Armando Peña Soltren, 66, and two other men hijacked a Pan American flight in November 1968 after entering the cockp ... More >>

Cuba Is Running out of Toilet Paper

via Christophe Mallet's flickr​We could argue all day about communism versus capitalism, but neither is immune to the worldwide economic slump. In fact, it seems communist Cuba is hurting so bad it can't afford one basic necessity: toilet paper. Reuters reports Cuba might not get en ... More >>

BarrioActivo Brings Addictive Fusion to Transit Lounge

​What do you get when you cross elements from Cuba's classic musical styles like son, guaracha, cha-cha-chá and rumba with more contemporary flavors, ranging from funk to ska to reggae and good ole' noisy hard rock? If you guessed Ricky Ricardo on a bender with Brad Nowell circa 1996, right befor ... More >>

OAS Welcomes Back Cuba With No Preconditions

The Organization of American States is one of those regional political forums that is made up of 35 independent nations in North, South and Central America. Technically that includes Cuba, but they've been on suspension since 1962. Now it appears they're being welcome back to the big boy's table aft ... More >>

U.S. Might Reopen Communication with Cuba

Think of America's foreign relations as an AOL Instant Messenger buddy list. We've got roughly 190 buddies, dived up into "BFF," "Frenemies," "Casual Acquaintances," etc. But for about 50 years, the screen name "Fidel4Lyfe" (AKA Cuba) has been blocked. Well, the New York Times reports today that th ... More >>

Asia de Cuba Wows in South Beach

Big, distinctive food and a distinctively big bill.

News Roundup

LocalThe city of Miami's Historic Preservation Board decided to delay its vote on the Bacardi buildings until early next month. [Herald]The car industry is swirling down the toilet at the moment, but a "Miami car dealer is upbeat." [NYTimes]A 47 year-old man was indicted on child porn charges. [Hera ... More >>

Congress Pushes To Open Free Travel To Cuba

via lepiaf.geo's flickrFor 50 years Americans have been forbidden from traveling to Cuba, a policy that has contributed very little to toppling the Communist regime. It's not the answer, and it's never been the answer to ending the reign of a bunch of egotistical, silly little bearded men who have t ... More >>

Conjunto Progreso Brings Old School Cuban Flavor to Transit

Conjunto Progresso ain't your mama's Cuban jam band.  Well...maybe they are.  The fact is, the orchestra, specializing in son and Latin jazz, is about as traditional as it gets.  Don't let LEBO's artwork emblazoned on their album covers and flyers fool you, they aren't Spam Allstars ... More >>

Global Cuba Fest 2009

Conjunto Progresso ain't your mama's Cuban jam band.  Well...maybe they are.  The fact is, the orchestra, specializing in son and Latin jazz, is about as traditional as it gets.  Don't let LEBO's artwork emblazoned on their album covers and flyers fool you, they aren't Spam Allstars ... More >>

Radio & TV Martí Ineffective in Attracting Large Audience in Cuba

The idea that the free broadcast of views opposing the state sponsored media could, in part, help to tumble Communism in Cuba is certainly a noble one, but its chances of success would certainly be helped if more Cubans were receiving those broadcasts. Reports today from Congressional investigators ... More >>

Global Cuba Festival 2009 to feature Albita, Alex Cuba, and Yosvany Terry

It's been 50 years since Castro took power, and still the stretches of ocean surrounding Cuba can't stop the flow of its people's creative juices. The second annual Global Cuba Fest pays homage to the continuity of this unique Caribbean culture by uniting artists who long ago spread to the far rea ... More >>

Cigar Aficionado Documents the Secret History of US-Cuba Talks

Cigar Aficianado normally devotes its editorial content to, as the name suggests, cigars and the celebrities that love them. Yes, they've always been against the Cuban Embargo, but their February issue goes all Atlantic-esque high brow, ditches the smokey celeb portrait, and puts their political lea ... More >>

News Roundup

It is the 50th anniversary of the start of complete and utter failure in Cuba. [Herald]Haitian-Americans have their very own Madoff to hate now. George Theodule bilked more than $23 million in a ponzi scheme. [JustNews]Demonstrators with sympathies on both side of the Isreal-Palestine conflict to ... More >>

News Roundup

Two employees of a wire company are charged with stealing remittances that were supposed to head to Cuba. [Herald]Names on the invite list for the straight wedding of the century are leaking. Crist has invited a bunch of political-type people, old FSU frat bros, donors and lobbyists like Ron Book. [ ... More >>

The End of the Revolution?

This weekend, the New York Times Magazine has a big cover piece on the generational shift underway in Cuba, as much of the population that knew and loved Fidel are aging out and giving way to a new generation who have no association with the near-catatonic octagarian's iconic early days. Here's a de ... More >>

Asia de Cuba Set For SoBe

This coming Monday, December 8th, Asia de Cuba will debut in the Mondrian South Beach (1100 West Avenue). This China Grill Management concept first appeared eleven years ago in New York CIty's Morgans Hotel, and has since branched out to The Mondrian in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, The Clift in San F ... More >>

Big Names, Rising Stars

Walk the streets of Miami Book Fair International.

Gloria Estefan

Walk the streets of Miami Book Fair International.

Bachaco

Walk the streets of Miami Book Fair International.

Mothership Connection

Past is present, and rum rules.

Nothing Screwy About It

See a screwball comedy theater classic at UM.

Hot Blooded

Cuban-born singer Yanelis Cortes came to this country cleaning bathrooms. Now she's live on your TV set five days a week.

Cuba Nostalgia Convention Under Way With a Jab at Spain

Cuban-born singer Yanelis Cortes came to this country cleaning bathrooms. Now she's live on your TV set five days a week.

Cigar Aficionado Does Cuba. Will the County Ban it Again?

Cuban-born singer Yanelis Cortes came to this country cleaning bathrooms. Now she's live on your TV set five days a week.

Cubanos on Film

Cuban-born singer Yanelis Cortes came to this country cleaning bathrooms. Now she's live on your TV set five days a week.

Chino-Latino No Go

Here’s a sound machine for Gloria Estefan: the cash register — Ka-ching! Ka-ching!

Trilling You Softly

"I think one always carries their own music inside"

Listen Up, McClatchy

The most-honored Spanish newspaper in the United States is ethically challenged

Tiempo Libre

The most-honored Spanish newspaper in the United States is ethically challenged

Native Son

The most-honored Spanish newspaper in the United States is ethically challenged

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Puerto Sagua

Fake Art, Real Money

That beautiful painting by Cuban artist Domingo Ramos? The one you bought from a Miami gallery for $10,000? Ready for some bad news? It's a forgery

The Cuban Conundrum

That beautiful painting by Cuban artist Domingo Ramos? The one you bought from a Miami gallery for $10,000? Ready for some bad news? It's a forgery

Cows to Cuba

A South Florida rancher is using bovine diplomacy to improve relations with the island nation

Show Some Love

A New Yorker gets into what it's like to be poor, black, and Cuban

Free as a Jailbird in Havana

When ex-con Mario Mora was deported to Cuba, he swapped one prison for another

Heretics in the House

They came to Miami. They gathered publicly. They showed no fear. And they trashed the Cuba embargo.

Air Check:

Listen How Your Money Is Being Spent

The War That Never Ends

More than 40 years after the Bay of Pigs disaster, a new battle erupts over those who died during the invasion