Arts & Entertainment - Oct. 13, 2007
Bobi Cespedes es buenisima!
I went down to the United Community Center to catch Bobi Céspedes and her band last night and was pleasantly blown away.
Tags: Bobi Céspedes, United Community Center, Hispanic American, West Africa, Cuba, cowbell

Dining - June 26, 2006
The Good Life comes to the East Side
Sweeping over Humboldt Avenue like a wave is a structure that also conjures the sound of the sea in a conch shell. And it will be the perfect home for Good Life, a Caribbean inspired bar and restaurant run by the husband and wife team of DJ and Cassie Brooks.
Tags: Good Life, Caribbean, DJ Brooks, Cassie Brooks, Workshop Architects, reggae, calypso, soca, Jamaica, Cuba

Bars & Clubs - June 8, 2006
The mojito: Milwaukee's new margarita
The mojito is a traditional Cuban cocktail invented more than a century ago, but many Milwaukee bartenders make a mean one to this day. Tall, cool and refreshing, the mojito is quickly becoming a patio favorite and just might be the new margarita.
Tags: mojitos, Sol Fire, Art Bar, Cubanita's, Hemingway's, Club Havana, Cuba, margarita

Dining - Dec. 12, 2005
Stunning Hemingway's Cuban eatery would make Papa proud
Hemingway's Habana Vieja (The Old City) located at 626 S. 5th St. is the new restaurant venture for Jose Zarate of La Fuente fame. The Cuban eatery has been under construction for several years now, and the final product is breathtaking; Papa would be proud.
Tags: Hemingway's, Cuba, Habana Viejo, Havana, Fuente, Walker's Point, Zarate, Barbosa

Movies - Oct. 8, 2004
"The Motorcycle Diaries" traces Che's nascent politicism
Based on Guevara's diaries, discovered long after his death, "The Motorcycle Diaries," by "Central Station" director Walter Salles, follows Guevara and his pal Alberto Granado as they travel across South America in 1952 on an old motorcycle.
Tags: Bernal, Che, Guevara, Tambien, Amores, Serna, Salles, Cuba, Bolivia, Argentina

Arts & Entertainment - Oct. 16, 2008
My Two Cent Vent
Wednesday October 15th, 2008 - Kenosha, WI/Chicago, ILIs the world really this stupid or am I part of a big long elaborate prank? Will somebody PLEASE yell ‘cut’ and stop this mess? It’s gone on way too long. I feel more out of touch with the public’s pulse now than I&rsqu...
Tags: Cuba