Tropical Storm Katia was born southwest of the Cape Verde Islands on Monday. It is the eleventh TS in the current season that ends on Nov. 30th, notes the Cuban Weather Service (INSMET) on Tuesday.
Read MoreExtraño Corazon began playing pop-rock, heavy metal, progressive rock & the blues, which is to say we weren’t a group defined by any particular musical style. But when we started getting some of our country-sounding songs played on the radio, the public began identifying us as that Cuban pop-rock-country band.
Read MoreOn the tenth day of a protest wave that has been gaining momentum since Aug. 20 and will continue until Sep. 3, nearly 300 people gathered in Lafayette Park directly across from the White House in Washington D.C., chanting, “When I say ‘tar sands’, you say ‘no!’ When I say ‘action’, you say ‘go!'”
Read MoreThe United States youth baseball team had an easy time on Sunday defeating Cuba 9-0 in the final game of the IBAF 16U Baseball World Championship 2011.
Read MoreWhen I came off the stage the rappers told me: “You really did that ‘Spoken Word’ great.” I still didn’t know what it was. When investigating into it I realized that it was about doing your poetry or that of someone else’s on a rhythmic base of sound, and live.
Read MoreCuba plays the USA in the final game of the 16-U Baseball World Championship on Sunday afternoon. Both squads have identical 5-1 records. The finals rivals are a rematch of the 2009 tournament when the US scored twice in the bottom of the ninth to defeat Cuba 7-6.
Read MoreHavana teems with those phrases written on walls, on papers, signs and posters. Any place is appropriate to hang a “mural” of the neighborhood Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR). (25 photos)
Read MoreThe majority of people still don’t know it (and those who know keep quiet), but the hip hop symposium is the official consequence of what had been the highly acclaimed Alamar Rap Festival.
Read MoreHurricane Irene is a shade weaker as it moves closer to a possible landing in North Carolina, reported the Cuban Weather Service (INSMET) on late Friday afternoon.
Read MoreThe assassination of Brazilian Judge Patrícia Acioli, who was investigating militias made up of off-duty police and death squads, points to a new stage of organized crime, which is expanding into the vacuum left by the impunity surrounding 90 percent of murders in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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