Omar Sosa: Outside the Box at Dizzy’s Club

Omar Sosa: Outside the Box at Dizzy’s ClubSept. 4-6. 7PM and 9PM. Sept 7. 5Pm and 7PM. Pianist and composer Omar Sosa draws on his own Afro-Cuban heritage, American jazz, and spiritual and meditative practices from around the world to create music...

As mass deportation intensifies, right-wing media expand their aim to include American citizens

The notion of certain Americans being less “American” has escalated in right-wing media in recent months. In July, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh launched an attack on Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) for proposing legislation, The Dignity Act, to...

Cuban President Congrats Medal Winners In Junior Pan Am Games

Yander Herrera of Cuba celebrates by winning the gold medal in the 110 meter men’s track and field category at the II ASU 2025 Pan American Junior Games this Friday, in Luque (Paraguay). Photo: EFE/Rodrigo Sepulveda August 23, 2025 Hour: 6:05 pm...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz calls attention to Cuban activists and veterans’ needs

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of the U.S. Congress representing Florida’s 25th district, has used her social media platform to highlight concerns over human rights in Cuba and advocate for veterans’ support.On August 23, 2025, Wasserman...

Cuban Flames, Imperialist Tundra

Danny Shaw with friends in Cuba. [Source: Photo courtesy of Danny Shaw] An Ethnographic Portrait of Youth, the Blockade and Survival in Havana Today, on the 72nd Anniversary of the July 26th Attack Argentinian sociologist Atilio Borón, analyzing...

Gloria Estefan marks 50 years of music, 40 years of ‘Conga’ — and she’s still ‘busy as all hell’

Gloria Estefan performs on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ in August 2025 (ABC/Paula Lobo) 2025 marks Gloria Estefan‘s 50th year in the music business and the 40th anniversary of “Conga,” her breakthrough hit with Miami Sound Machine. But she’s not...

29 Things To Do In Chicago This Weekend: Jazz Fest, Taste Of Polonia, Bike The Drive And More

CHICAGO — Pumpkin spice season is near, but there are still plenty of things to do in the city before the cooler months settle in. Chicago’s legendary Jazz Festival takes place this weekend, as well as ARC Music Festival, Taste Of Polonia, the...

Cuba’s Scarce Electricity Hobbles the Few Industries Left

The Jose Marti Iron and Steel Company, Antillana de Acero. File photo: Leonardo Santiesteban / Periodismo de Barrio Por Amado Viera HAVANA TIMES – The last time the Cuban State press spoke about the Jose Marti Metallurgical Iron and Steel Company...

Adrian Quesada: “Bravo (ft. iLe)” [Live In Studio 1A]

At this point, Adrian Quesada is a man who needs no introduction. With a musical curiosity rivaling Beck, project to project, he conjures up albums thoughtfully marrying tradition or inspiration to Quesada. On both iterations of the Boleros...

Cuban cuisine comes to Chaguanas

Features Grevic Alvarado 10 Hrs Ago Yordanka La Rosa, one of the cooks at La Cubana Cuisine, shows off the tamales or hallacas prepared for customers on August 10. - GREVIC ALVARADO Coming to a foreign country, starting a new life, and settling in...

Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance

Cuban Cubism is central to Aruán Ortiz's musical identity—but in this album, his vision extends far beyond. While the 1930s Negritude movement was a literary endeavor, Ortiz seeks to embody that movement not through words but through music. His...

China pledges more intelligence sharing with Cuba, months after US jitters

China’s state security chief Chen Yixin has met his Cuban counterpart in Beijing and pledged better intelligence sharing to help the US neighbour maintain social stability, against a backdrop of heightened pressure from the Donald Trump...

In Addition to Being Cuban, the ‘Former Bodyguard’ of Fidel Castro and ‘Terrorist’ Is Ecuadorian and Lives in Mexico

Ex-major Rogelio Enrique Bolufé Izquierdo, detained with cocaine, has no legal status in the U.S. Bolufé was transferred to a migrant detention center in Texas. / Facebook 14ymedio, Havana, August 23, 2025 — Held in a Texas detention center in the...

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist Talk ‘Alfredo 2,’ Longevity & Independence

Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist are playing the long game. Five years after they dropped their Grammy-nominated collab album Alfredo, the midwest rapper and the west coast producer decided to go bigger with the sequel by heading to Japan to give...

Cuba falls to Brazil at men's volleyball semifinals in ASU 2025

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 22 (ACN) In a heartbreaker, the Cuban men's volleyball team fell 2-3 (25-14, 17-25, 24-26, 25-23, 11-15) to Brazil in the semifinals of the event at the 2nd Junior Pan American Games in Asuncion, Paraguay. A match of ups and...

Carlos A. Gimenez denounces Cuban and Venezuelan regimes in series of social media posts

Cuban exiles honored at Miami’s ‘Ellis Island of the South’ as Trump ramps up immigrant arrests

MIAMI (AP) — For decades, its powerful lighthouse illuminated Miami’s Biscayne Bay, and during the height of the Cold War, what was known as the Freedom Tower stood as a beacon of hope for hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing communist rule....

Chamber Music Sedona announces upcoming season lineup

Special to Independent Newsmedia Chamber Music Sedona will launch its 43rd concert season in November. From the Junction Trio to violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Gloria Chien, to a season finale that combines music, movies and comedy, this...

10 Best Wendell Pierce Movies And TV Shows Ranked

A Juilliard-trained actor, Wendell Pierce has become a mainstay of both stage and screen. Television audiences recognize him as the overworked but sarcastic Detective William "Bunk" Moreland from "The Wire," or as the powerful attorney but even...

Cuba: Pavel Torres Has Been Jailed for 10 Months, No Trial

for his criticism of the regime Pavel Torres, in an image shared on his social media. “This is no longer justice; it’s exemplary punishment,” laments his brother, a lieutenant colonel in the Armed Forces. By Pablo Padilla Cruz (14ymedio) HAVANA...