The fifth installment of the mini-series “Spoon River” presents well-known punk rock band Porno para Ricardo, a controversial band that was founded in 1998 and led by Gorki Aguila, one of the most irreverent artists to have been born in Cuba.
Read MoreNicaraguan singer-songwriter Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy has given over 35 concerts in the United States, Canada and Central America since he was forced to seek exile in Costa Rica over a year ago. It’s his second period in exile, as once again he found himself needing to leave his country due to the brutal repression of another dictatorship.
Read MoreFilmmaker Jenny Murray has taken on the task of telling the story of the Nicaraguan revolution from the point of view of militant Sandinista women. Unfortunately, her film becomes lost in the labyrinth of the country’s mythology.
Read MorePancho, as he’s still known, was one of the members of the music group “Pancasan”, author of popular songs of the day such as “La Hora Cero” [Zero Hour], “Apuntes del Tio Sam” [Notes on Uncle Sam], and “Maria Rural”. Forty years later, he’s gone back to writing and composing, in the face of the clamor of a new generation that seeks the end of another dictatorship.
Read MoreYep, reggaeton has made it: it’s impossible to go a day without hearing it, without knowing what it is, without dancing to the beat of its songs. Reggaeton is marking an era. Maybe it is an era, in itself. In spite of efforts to contain it, the music genre, its expressions, connect with people, get in your head and spread.
Read MoreIrreverent, dissident, opposition political posters are, with difficulty, blooming in the Cuba we live in and where repression is growing every day. Yasser Castellanos is one of its gardeners, Havana Times one of his few gardens out there where it can grow. (10 photos)
Read MoreThe world of Cuban music albums has a new sound out on the market and on social media: “TBT” by G. Rowell and Banda. G.
Read MoreIt was the end of summer 1988, I was 11 years old, and Trianon was still a movie theater at the time. Darkness. The first image: The fog disperses as dawn breaks behind a lighthouse where the protagonist looks out at the waves: “The sea… It’s contaminated with radiation… Will it ever be blue again?”
Read MoreMusic, dance, photography, poetry and handicrafts were the artistic expressions presented by several former political prisoners and Nicaraguan artists who have joined the civic struggle against the Ortega-Murillo government…
Read MoreXiomis L. Navarro Collado is a doctor and rapper. She imagined being the former growing up, but not the latter, although she started out like nearly every artist: as a child.
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