Havana

Welcome to Havana

Or something like it, at the Biltmore

Dark Days and Nights in Havana

Or something like it, at the Biltmore

Cuban Flautist Orlando "Maraca" Valle Wants to Party

Or something like it, at the Biltmore

Childhood, con Maduros

A Cuban coming-of-age story with a kick of Miami spice

Ice on the Decks, Non-Vanilla

Ice has a bit of a bad musical rap ever sense its unfortunate connection with a certain early 90's caucasian rapper, but it's grown musically sense then. While listening to the Merzbox 20 times in a row, it realized there's more to creating sound than ripping of a Queen riff, so it teamed up wi ... More >>

Hide Out While You Still Can at Lake Worth's Havana Hideout

If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Cafe Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach, here's a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe.Some secrets South Floridians like to keep to themselves. Lake Worth hole-in-the-wall Havana Hideout has a few of them. Like its choc ... More >>

No Band Is an Island

Habana Abierta, the supergroup made up of Cuba's premier rock and roll pioneers, prepares for international stardom

The Rum Chronicles

In which the author observes recent changes in Cuba: Cheap liquor is now plentiful but hope has become scarce

BEST TOURIST TRAP

Little Havana

BEST LOCAL BOY MADE HEAVEN

Luis Botifoll

Sizzle? Fizzle

For Dirty Dancing, the second verse is even worse than the first

Scene Stealer

Despite uneven film quality, this year's festival was an unqualified success

Exile on Main Street

A thorn in the side of both el exilio and the regime, Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo waits for U.S.-Cuba relations to thaw even as his assets are frozen

Hysterical Blindness

Cubans on both sides of the Florida Straits are casting off old illusions, so why is U.S. policy stuck in the past?

BEST PLACE FOR A FIRST DATE

Club Tropigala

Fontainebleau Hilton

Cuban in a Suitcase

The art of luggage can express travel, exile, and private and social lives

Murdered in Havana

After the Catholic Church banished him, Cuba welcomed him. But the vibrant new life George Zirwas created for himself soon ended in tragic death.

Cuba's Screen Dreams

Hollywood's hits fill Havana's movie theaters. Just don't ask how they got there.

Yusa

Yusa "Tumi Music"

Requiem for a Dream City

Havana may be rendered fantastic here, but not distant

El Lanzador

Vicente Lopez was almost the Cuban Koufax

Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

Where can terrorists find safe harbor? If you're of the Cuban exile variety, right here.

Best Ice Cream Parlor

Coppelia Miami Ice Cream

Best Film Festival

FIU-Miami International Film Festival

Best Local Solo Musician

Roberto Poveda

Best Cigar Bar

Havana Cigar Emporium and Lounge

Cuban Missive Crisis

For years the infamous Wasp Network collected reams of data on Miami's anti-Castro forces -- and the sundry, sometimes bizarre, attempts to infiltrate them

In the Art of the City

Welcome to Havana and its Biennial, where life and art, the real and surreal, blur

Shake

Cuban rockers shift from Lenin to Lennon

Actors' Playhouse Tells the Frozen History of Havana Bourgeois

Green fatigues in the Gables.

Through a Distant Lens

Green fatigues in the Gables.

Cuban Mobster Book Havana Nocturne Being Turned into a Film

T. J. English's best-selling book, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution, went over like a lead balloon in certain corners of El Exilio. The book paints Fulgencio Batista as a corrupt leader all too willing to play ball -- and take kickbacks -- from powerful ... More >>

U.S. Turns off News Ticker in Havana

I guess it is possible a news ticker could bring down an oppressive regime, but in reality it's just going to serve as another silly point of conflict. The U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana turned on the five-foot high, 25-windows-long news ticker in January 2006. The first message, to celebrat ... More >>

Book Review: Mia Leonin's Memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers

Mia Leonin​Poet, UM creative writing professor, and former Miami New Times theater critic Mia Leonin grew up believing her father was dead, and after years of listening to her mother's disparate stories regarding his identity - -internist, ophthalmologist, Filipino, foreign islander -- she finally ... More >>

News Roundup

The Miami Dolphins lost to the Atlanta Falcons 19-7, and it wasn't even that kind of loss where you could be like, "Well, at least their so-and-so looks good this year." It was just brutal. [Herald]Ferry service from Miami to Havana? It might just happen. [NYTimes]Oh, no! Someone pulled a smash ... More >>

Cuba's Craigslist Is Apparently Back Online; You Can Still Buy That Sweet Yank Tank

via Revolico.comUvaldo in Havana just posted this '59 Ford Zephyr for sale this morning. It's yours for 14,000 convertible pesos. ​Revolico isn't just the best place on the web to ogle rusted out Yank Tanks for sale in Havana. As we wrote back in September, it's also the most remarkable example ye ... More >>

Human Fights Day in Cuba

The three dozen "Ladies in White" who took to the streets of Havana on Human Rights Day on Thursday hoped to bring attention to husbands, fathers, and friends serving time in Cuban jails for speaking out. But it was the government that made the strongest case that human rights are being trampled dai ... More >>

What to Hear in Broward and Palm Beach This Weekend

via Flickr user t_a_i_s​Plenty of things to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend, one of them will even make you feel good about yourself! Tonight, the Help Mend A Heart Benefit Show is happening at The Talent Farm. The $10 cover charge goes to the Maureen Waters Medical Fund (read all abou ... More >>

What to Hear in Broward and Palm Beach This Weekend

via Flickr user t_a_i_s​Plenty of things to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend, one of them will even make you feel good about yourself! Tonight, the Help Mend A Heart Benefit Show is happening at The Talent Farm. The $10 cover charge goes to the Maureen Waters Medical Fund (read all abou ... More >>

Expats Return to Cuba for Pow Wow, Bad Art

The Cuban government had an enticing travel offer for expats around the world this week: Come back for a three-day panel discussion!Cuban governmentExiles travel to Havana for fancy confabSurprisingly, 450 of them accepted. Yes, a boatload of Cubans living abroad flew to Havana not for the green mo ... More >>

Thousands Attend Puerto Rican Band Calle 13's Habana Concert

Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up.from diplo's twitter​ It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August's Juanes show. Singer René Pérez J ... More >>

Baroque in Havana

Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up.from diplo's twitter​ It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August's Juanes show. Singer René Pérez J ... More >>

Havana Good Time

Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up.from diplo's twitter​ It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August's Juanes show. Singer René Pérez J ... More >>

The Good Ol'Dias

Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up.from diplo's twitter​ It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August's Juanes show. Singer René Pérez J ... More >>

Cuban punk rockers Gorki and Gil used music to take on Castro

Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up.from diplo's twitter​ It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August's Juanes show. Singer René Pérez J ... More >>

Plato Royale: Battle of Yuca Frita, Havana Harry's vs. Casa Larios

Americans have potatoes. Cubans have yuca. So in Miami, you can find the root vegetable pretty much everywhere arroz y frijoles are sold. The starch can be boiled or fried but must be drenched in mojo (a sauce prepared with heavy amounts of garlic, olive oil and citrus juices) to be legitimate.Local ... More >>

Cuba Libre, Please

Americans have potatoes. Cubans have yuca. So in Miami, you can find the root vegetable pretty much everywhere arroz y frijoles are sold. The starch can be boiled or fried but must be drenched in mojo (a sauce prepared with heavy amounts of garlic, olive oil and citrus juices) to be legitimate.Local ... More >>

'Down With Castro' Fliers Earn Cuban Activists Five-Year Prison Terms

This guy cannot handle angry leaflets.​Life in La Habana has been inching toward change lately. These days, it's perfectly legal to serve up to 50 people in your restaurant, to own your own barber shop and to spend all afternoon loading clunky dial-up porn on your home computer.Still most definite ... More >>

Havana Hosts Its First Independent Gay Pride Parade, Sort Of

A flyer for the event featured Prado Avenue's lion sculptures dressed in drag.​It's quite a human rights paradox. Next month, the Cuban parliament will discuss a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage on the Communist isle, yet GLBT citizens are, like all Cubans, discouraged from gathering and ... More >>