Havana

  • Destination: Havana

    Santeria, drinking, baseball and struggle -- glimpse Habanero life with work from G. Cabrera Infante, Ada Ferrer and the late, brave Reinaldo Arenas.
    By Tony D'Souza June 15, 2006

  • Havana honey, Part 4

    I'm getting close to finding my father, but first I have to please my "boyfriend" who makes me wear his tightie-whities and act like a man while he wears my lingerie and acts like a woman.
    By Alysia Vilar May 23, 2003

  • Havana honey, Part 3

    My latest humiliation-for-money job is to deliver the Cuban Lolita -- fresh from her bikini wax -- to Richard as he gets off the plane from London.
    By Alysia Vilar May 22, 2003

  • Havana honey, Part 2

    He loves Cuban communism, and every part of my body, which he surveys with his tape measure. But Terence will soon be back in Canada, after one final bout in his humid hotel room.
    By Alysia Vilar May 21, 2003

  • Havana honey

    Flying in from the U.S., I joined the female "jockeys" who sold themselves to tourists for rum and money. But I did it to find my father. Part 1
    By Alysia Vilar May 20, 2003

  • Whorehouse of the Caribbean

    Castro promised to clean up Cuba, but the new poverty has driven many to sell what they can, including their bodies.
    By Jonathan Lerner January 4, 2001

  • Viva la evolución

    From Havana to Santiago, Cuba steps into the next millennium with hope for a new kind of revolution.
    By Rachel Louise Snyder February 24, 2000

  • Junker

    Our rental car wheezed through Cuba at the millennium. A new century on the horizon, Fidel's nation gathered up its last one right beneath our wheels.
    By Rachel Louise Snyder February 23, 2000

  • Wake up! Is this Cloud-Cuckoo-Land?

    Will we get stuck with a fumbling Bush? Given the evil eye by Hillary? Deafened by the shrill mania of gun controllers? And will Kate Winslet ever get the Oscar Helen Hunt stole from her?
    By Camille Paglia February 2, 2000

  • Adios to all that

    Old passions run high over the fate of a little boy, but both Cubans and the exile community are ready to embrace a new future -- together.
    By Joe Conason December 17, 1999

  • Ali of Mali: Guitar king of the Sahara

    He reigns over the Timbuktu Social Club, but his distinctive, bluesy sound is reaching all around the world.
    By Damien Cave December 4, 1999

  • Cuban revolution

    Ry Cooder on "Buena Vista Social Club": "This record has its own rules."
    By Eric Boehlert August 20, 1999

  • Can I go to Cuba without breaking the law?

    Our travel expert offers advice on making your way to Cuba, lost traveler's checks, pricing a Disney/Universal Studios trip and finding that Florida healing center
    By Donald D. Groff August 19, 1999

  • A sexual education in Cuba

    The dance of need and desire differs from one country to another.
    By Daniel Weinshenker June 12, 1999

  • ¡Play beísbol!

    Baseball and Cuba -- two hidebound institutions needing reform -- get a public relations boost from an extra-innings game in the Havana sunshine.
    By Steve Kettmann March 29, 1999

  • Viva "Buena Vista Social Club"

    In spite of volatile Cuban-American exile politics, Wim Wenders' documentary 'Buena Vista Social Club' wins over Miami
    By Art Levine March 9, 1999

  • Long Time Gone

    A black militant's exile in Castro's Cuba
    By Arthur Allen April 6, 1996
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