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Recently, I met Paula Goldstein through our mutual friend and globetrotting DJ, Mia Moretti. Paula runs a sweet website named Voyage d'etudes, focusing on travel, and women doing inspirational things abroad. (Paula Goldstein, Founder/Editor of Voyage D'etudes) How did it all come together? "I spent most of my 20s living out of a half-unpacked suitcase"…
(Supporting stickers by Clandestina) It's the end another week in Cuba, and we'd like to give a round of applause to Havana World Music for pulling off these 3 days of global music. Just like the band origins, each visitor represented a spectrum of countries ranging from local Cuban flavor to Europeans, to Americans, to…
Utah is getting a big injection of Cuban fever at the start of 2017. We’ve spent the better part of the year reading about the importance of Cuba/US engagement from media outlets like New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and a myriad of other outlets. Journalists have played an important role in opening this discussion…
Questlove was the first person to reach me after President Obama's announcement to normalize relations with Cuba on December 17, 2014 and ask to visit Cuba. His heart and soul has been invested in the island nation since their Havana performance in 2002, always dreaming of the day he'd go back. Enter April 2015, there…
http://youtu.be/cwwcnUBY9Zg Normally I don't post fashion stuff on this Cuban blog, but this one seems quite noteworthy. It seems the prestigious Parisian fashion house, Lanvin has, um, "let their hair down". To be specific, here's Karen Elson and Raquel Zimmermann gettin DOWN to Cuban-American artist, Pitbull's "I Know You Want Me". Oh yeah, it went…
The star of East of Havana, rapper Soandry, is based in Cuba but was recently granted a visa for a short stay in the USA. On his journey though the United States, he is visiting Penn State this Friday for a screening and Q&A on Thursday, November 4, 2010. Any college students who are eager…
