Rosa Esther is one of those people who have begun to form part of the landscape of our historical city center. I could easily have passed right by her without much notice, except for the fact that Esther is in a wheelchair – “the car”, as she calls it.
Read MoreLorna Feijóo, who currently dances with the Boston Ballet Company, will always be a star of the Cuban Ballet. “Cuba has been the setting where I’ve felt the greatest emotion,” she told us during her interview with Havana Times.
Read More“I started to understand when to wait, when to approach, when to duck down and when to back up. What was important about these experiences was that I realized that photography requires exercise. The more you practice, the better you get in the situations that present themselves in front of your lens,” said Eduardo Garcia in his interview with HT.
Read MoreWe turn to Steubenville, Ohio, where members of a high school football team allegedly raped an underage girl and possibly urinated on her unconscious body over the course of an evening of partying in late August. The young men chronicled their actions on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Read MoreAre the Cuban people concerned over Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s health as he recovers from cancer surgery? Will the Special Period return to Cuba if he cannot carry out his new term in office? These and more questions are tackled here by Progreso Weekly correspondent Manuel Alberto Ramy.
Read MoreYesterday, he mistook me for a tourist and offered to take a snapshot of me using his “old technique.” He was the first of his type of photographer I’d seen in a while. I used to see them all the time on the steps of the Capitolio Building (now under repair) offering to take shots of tourists. (11 photos)
Read MoreNiurka Reyes remains one of the great voices of the Cuban song today. “I’m passionate, dedicated, true, but above all I’m an artist who loves what I do – and I’m very respectful of my audience,” she said in her interview.
Read MoreWhen I first saw him on Obispo Street, in Old Havana, I assumed he was one of many street musicians trying to make a living with their art. He seemed interesting with his melodies of the Far East, something atypical of the street performers I usually see in this city.
Read MoreMaykel Sotomayor is a young creator of visual arts who is defining the path of this work on the island today. He’s motivated by what’s called object-oriented and landscape art; after he first dabbled in graphical humor.
Read MoreLike many universities in the United States, Sarah Lawrence allows students to spend a semester studying abroad, but it’s one of the few that sends a new group to Cuba every year. We spoke with Maya Anderson the alternate director of the college’s academic program with the University of Havana.
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