Cuba

Chain of Command

A Few Good Men at the Alley delivers strong performances while showing the perils of unsupervised power.

Latin Wave 8

Tiempo Libre: Hot in Havana

Tiempo Libre: Hot in Havana

Noel Sosa-Ruiz: Bizarre End For Man Who Killed His Kids' Mother At Her Office

Photo by HPDNoel Sosa-Ruiz: Tries to escape to Cuba​The death of 29-year-old Yodani Cruz-Rojas was odd enough -- the father of her children walked into the suburban dentist's office where she worked and killed her in a hail of gunfire -- but now there's an odd finale. The suspected killer, No ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ever Ate: Fried Bites

Inspired by the Food Network, I'm looking into the "best things I ever ate" around the grand city of Houston. Recently, I shared the best vegetables I ever ate. Now it's time to move on to the big guns - fried foods. In Texas, there is definitely no shortage of deep-fried delights to choose from. Th ... More >>

Luis Abreux

Coke: United States vs. Mexico

​Cane sugar has been gaining on HFCS lately. Dr Pepper admitted that high-fructose corn syrup is a shoddy sweetener when it turned Lawyer Pepper on its Dublin, Texas bottler. And tonic makers have created a new market from the knowledge that gin mixes with corn syrup like gin goes with police ... More >>

Philip Kerr: Field Gray

Film Collage

Johan Grimonprez's stunning work screens at the Blaffer Museum.

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand...

Photos by Troy Fields​...well, you know the rest. At Macondo Latin Bistro -- the subject of this week's cafe review -- I was just as charmed by the fine little dining room as I was the food. I found myself lingering there far longer than was necessary and eagerly planning return visits for br ... More >>

The Lost Mojito

​If you've had a cocktail with rum, sugar, lime, soda and spearmint, it was probably called a mojito. That's fine with me -- I'm no cocktail cop -- but that's not what they're drinking in Havana. A Cubano would no more make a spearmint mojito than a Kentuckian would serve up a peppermint jul ... More >>

Five Fortuitous New Year's Foods

A30_TsitikaEat grapes for smooth sailing in 2011. ​Not like you need any excuse to stuff yourself during the holidays, but take heed of what you eat around December 31st if you're interested in a little extra good fortune. Depending on who you ask, certain foods -- if consumed on New Year's -- ... More >>

Los Van Van

Alex Cuba

Vintage Cocktails: The Mary Pickford

1937 copy of La Florida recipe book​Last week I told you about the La Florida Bar in Havana, Cuba, "la catedral del Daiquiri." This week's drink comes from a brittle 1937 copy of that bar's recipe book, which was found at a flea market. The book is old enough that each recipe is in both Spani ... More >>

Recipe: The Florateani

​Whenever summer hits, I find myself changing up the kind of drinks I'm imbibing. In the winter, I can tolerate heavier drinks like whiskey cokes and Cuba Libres, but in the summer, I enjoy things a little lighter and sweeter. I explained all of this to expert drink maker Brant Miller and as ... More >>

Buena Vista Social Club Screens At Domy Tonight

Greetings from Florida. By the time you read this, Hollywood Shuffle will be well entrenched in the Sunshine State on our annual pilgrimage to visit family, douse ourselves in cuba libres and eat our body weight in Cuban pulled-pork sandwiched and plantains. It's long been a dream of HWS's to visit ... More >>

A Darker Look at Che's Revolution

After Guevara destroyed his family and his fortune, Gustavo Villoldo hunted the revolutionary leader to his grave.

“Recollections of Havana”

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Pitbull

Stephanie Elizondo Griest: Mexican Enough

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CINEMATHEQUE: Latin American “Third Cinema”

Curator Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado pairs two agit-prop classics

Sonidos y Mas: NovaLima

Novalima Coba Coba (Cumbancha) www.novalima.net If you hear similarities between Novalima's modern Afro-Peruvian music and the rhythms brought from Cuba by Celia Cruz and Tito Puente in the '50s, you're on the right track: Peruvians have borrowed a lot from the Africans taken to South America as ... More >>

Hurricane Gustav -- Already A Disaster

Immigration: Cubans Enter U.S. at Texas-Mexico Border

“Lizards & Snakes: Alive!”

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is squeamish for squamates

Holocaust Museum Houston Lecture Series

Examining Anti-Semitism

Classic Cuban CDs

Reissues of six classic Cuban CDs

The Silos

he Silos perform Saturday, March 10, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

Cuba Cine

A Slave's Trade

Edward P. Jones reveals another World

Pretty Please, Tilman

Houston's Donald Trump can't be bothered with paperwork

Peace -- For Now

A caravan to Cuba isn't hassled. Yet.

Spotted Cock

Crash Course on Cuba

A one-night film fest at the Shrine bookstore

Classic Cubano

Boca Chica

Low Fidel-ity

There's more than just the Gulf of Mexico between musicians in Cuba and those from Cuba

Stirred and Shaken

El Tiempo's Cuba Libre

Felix Baloy

Baila Mi Son: The Afro-Cuban All Stars Present Felix Baloy (Tumi)

Silence Equals Death

Before Night Falls recounts an imprisoned Cuban writer's struggle to keep his voice alive

Chucho Valdés

Overpowering the piano

Best Cuban Restaurant

Cafe Piquet

The Apolitical Blues

Los Van Van

Letters

The Insider

Gay Old Time

The Insider

Sound Check

Socialist Surrealism

FotoFest curates the work of a brave new generation of Cuban photographers