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Cuban Artist Won’t Let The Bronx Museum Show Her Work—Which They Own

Cuban artist demands the Bronx Museum not show her work.

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5 Reasons to Be Excited About the State of Jazz in 2017

Ahead of International Jazz Day on Sunday, April 30, here's our top picks for the most exciting things happening in jazz in 2017.

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A Guide to Havana’s Offline Internet, via Five Cuban Interns in New York

No internet? No problem.

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Next Year in Havana: Latin Jazz for Dummies

Duke Ellington liked to introduce his 1970 extended work, Afro-Euroasian Eclipse , by saying, “The whole world is going Oriental.” On stage at last month’s Jazz at Lincoln Center concert, Wynton...

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City of Servile Shoulders! City of Bows and Scrapes!

As soon as it can get the technical hiccups out of its system, the New York Stock Exchange will commence after-hours trading next year. It is but a matter of time before the stock market will, like Las...

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It’s Time to Change U.S. Cuban Policy

HAVANA–To be in Cuba during the uproar over the plight of Élian González is to understand exactly how and why United States policy toward that island has failed for almost 40 years. Whatever the...

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Celebrations of Diversity Ignore Questions of Loyalty

Of late, we have been treated to a continuous spouting and fuming emanating from the general direction of Miami, where the Cubans or Cuban exiles have been carrying on at a great rate about that...

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Castro’s Cigar Hondlers Roll Their Own-and Me

All over Havana, touts want you to buy black-market cigars at a fraction of the government price, and they make lewd pantomimes of puffing as you walk by shadowy alleyways, but it wasn’t ’til we’d been...

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Bungling Bushies Wrong About Cuba

Despite his blustering and joking during his recent trip across Europe and Russia, George W. Bush surely wonders sometimes why nations otherwise friendly to America are so suspicious of him and his...

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Sex, Murder and Medieval Melodrama

A ponderous medieval thriller may not exactly be what everyone’s been hoping for as a welcome antidote to overhyped crucifixion fables by Mel Gibson and the sudden new avalanche of brain-atrophying...

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DVD’s, Videos, TiVo, Downloadables

I Don’t Wanna Havana After watching all 80 minutes of the tepid remake Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights , I can tell you that I did not have the time of my life-this I swear-and I owe it all to … well, I...

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Cuban Artist Won’t Let The Bronx Museum Show Her Work—Which They Own

Cuban artist Tania Bruguera has pulled her work from the planned Bronx Museum show of Cuban works that has been dogged with political and logistical issues, the New York Times reported. The museum...

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5 Reasons to Be Excited About the State of Jazz in 2017

Dust off those Miles Davis records and polish that sax: Designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, International Jazz Day is coming up on Sunday, April 30, a...

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A Guide to Havana’s Offline Internet, via Five Cuban Interns in New York

Maybe you and your friends went to one of those places where people throw hatchets for fun or participated in a foot race encumbered by giant bubble suits? Obviously, your crew took lots of photos,...

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