09 / 07 / 2010
Published: September 7 2010 02:17. Sir, I am puzzled by the quote by Christopher Sabatini in “Time to press on with our plan in Havana” (Comment, FT.com, August 31) stating: “ ... exchanges allowing certain groups of Americans to interact with Cuban counterparts, thus demonstrating the benefits of intellectual and artistic freedom, are clearly a net gain.”
09 / 07 / 2010
The most authentic Cuban and Caribbean rhythms (son, changui, chachacha, rumba and others), interpreted with an enriching, very contemporary sound, as it is produced by the group To’Mezclao, received the welcome of thousands of British people who came to the nine concerts offered by this group in different cities from the United Kingdom, including the most important festivals from this summer.
09 / 06 / 2010
In a documentary that premiered in mid-August, a transexual who was the first to undergo gender reassignment surgery in Cuba in 1988, highlights how, more than 20 years later and after a lot of struggle, there has been a positive change for trans people in the country but how she now feels trapped and must battle against the ingrained sexism that still lurks in Cuban society, thus providing a rare glimpse into the problems of gender inequality.
09 / 05 / 2010
Published September 04, 2010.HAVANA (AP) — What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government? If you were the protagonist of Juan de los Muertos — "Juan of the Dead" — the first zombie flick ever shot in post-revolutionary Cuba, you'd figure out how to make some cash out of the carnage.
09 / 04 / 2010
Updated Fri Sep 3, 2010 11:06am AEST. 'Unique energy and bravura': Don Quixote is said to be the Cubans' signature ballet. Just one year after Brisbane audiences turned out for the opulent Paris Opera Ballet, the Queensland capital is hosting another world-class classical dance troupe.
08 / 31 / 2010
Cuban soprano Johana Simon won the third award of the Grandi Voci International Singing Contest HAVANA, CUBA.- Cuban soprano Johana Simon won the third award of the Grandi Voci International Singing Contest sponsored by the Oper im Berg Festival of Salzburg in Austria.
08 / 30 / 2010
Two years ago, on May 31, 2008, an unprecedented event in the history of rock in Cuba took place. On that day a dozen national metal groups were present at the Salon Rosado de La Tropical to promote the launching of the compilation “Not Salsa, Just Brutal Music,” published by the French label Brutal Beatdown Records.
08 / 30 / 2010
The exhibition entitled Paradojas del Deseo, by Cuban painter Manuel Lopez Oliva, was presented at the Inca Gracilazo Cultural Center of the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, directed by Andean prize-winning poet Antonio Cisneros.
08 / 29 / 2010
28 de Agosto 2010. Havana. – Proudly for its inhabitants, the town of San Antonio de los Baños in the province of Havana, is the most filmed town in Cuba and as an evidence of that there is a plaque in the Jose Marti park of that town, which states that.
08 / 28 / 2010
While it is true that the way to communicate through Rap does not belong to a Cuban style, the national public increasingly knows and enjoys this imported musical genre that is enriched by the attributes and reality of Cuba. The music players this summer, with regard to the 6th Cuban Hip Hop Symposium, were Hermanos de Causa, Anónimo Consejo, Brebaje Man, the solo Danay and Mexican Moyenei, performers of urban musical style.
