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Writer @susanorlean visited my family in 1996 in Miami, and Havana soon thereafter, to connect the dots of my family’s legacy, Centro Vasco. Today, the @NewYorker republished the story, with audio on @audmapp
In 1996, @susanorlean captured the life and longings of Miami’s community of Cuban refugees at one local restaurant. Revisit her piece in this week’s issue. nyer.cm/j6vZLSd
"It [Planet Caravan] was about floating through space, with your loved one, instead of taking her down the pub and having some chips or whatever" youtube.com/watch?v=zoQga3hM…
An improvement on the new Apple ad from a random stranger. This is the one that should air actually. Thank you, internet!
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"This transition [in Cuba] could take decades. Or it could happen in much the same way as that great Cuba aficionado Ernest Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy: "Gradually, then suddenly.”
"That political change, which must come from within Cuban society, threatens the survival of the regime and the future of the revolution, an unacceptable risk for the well-fed old guard that still runs the country. That’s the essence of the conflict right now."
A powerful essay on family that remains etched in my mind forever @NewYorker @Adita_Ferrer
My brother Poly would have been 70 today. Feeling the weight and sadness of his story, and of so much else, in Havana this year. My Brother’s Keeper newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @eddiestats @waxpoetics
I'm especially psyched to share my @waxpoetics cover story on the baddest dancehall artist of all time–The Don Dada himself #SuperCat The Wild Apache.
This deep dive is the product of 2 yrs of intensive work, but truly I've been researching it some way or another since ~1992
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Orestes Hernández
Off Season
Drawings, 2014
Installation of 32 drawings
Felt tip pen on Cuban phonebook pages
27.5 x 20 cm (10.8 x 7.9 in)
The Cuba-Chicago connection
Great piece on history of Chicago’s Cuban community.
And thanks to author @magisiv for mention of Abdala / BAM divide in 70s, w link to an article of mine.
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This ❤️
During Noname’s Tiny Desk performance she brought out Saba & Smino to reunite the Ghetto Sage supergroup and perform a new song 🔥xitter.cf/DaILLPhilJacks1/status…
Another Editorial team closing shop. To #AMEX , you created a lovely product with strong images. Let’s see where the eyeballs and dollars move in the future. You held on longer than most #travel #luxury #editorial #RIP
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Remembering the great Thelonious Monk who was born on this day in 1917. Known as one of the first creators of modern jazz, Monk’s music was known for its humorous, almost playful, quality.
His playing was percussive and sparse, often being described as “angular,” and he used complex and dissonant harmonies and unusual intervals and rhythms.
He was also one of the most prolific composers in the history of jazz. Many of his compositions, which were generally written in the 12-bar blues or the 32-bar ballad form, became jazz standards. Among his best-known works are “Well, You Needn’t,” “I Mean
You,” “Straight, No Chaser,” “Criss-Cross,” “Mysterioso,” “Epistrophy,” “Blue Monk,” and “ ’Round Midnight.”
Here, he is performing “Evidence” with Charlie Rouse on saxophone, John Ore on bass and Frankie Dunlop on drums live in Belgium, 1963.
There is a COSTCO newly opened in Cuba. Sky high prices (not surprised considering the scarcity game). They also take US credit cards. I have questions!
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I knew Cuba’s per capita incarcerated population was high but tbh I didn’t know it was this high
El Salvador is now the country with the most amount of prisoners relative to its national population frame.media/flashpoint/el-sa…
Thanks for the breakdown of word-on-the-street in Cuba today @MJ_Busta … always appreciate your perspective
