Caribbean editor Gay Nagle Myers is in Cuba on a six-day Friendly Planet travel agent fam trip, exploring Havana and its environs. HAVANA -- The best piece of advice I heard today came from Elias ...

I was being driven around Havana the other day when the taxi driver told me a joke. A Cuban descending into hell finds it divided by nationality. The torture of the day involves beatings with sticks ...

All over America old industrial and manufacturing buildings are being turned into art spaces, places where artists can work, teach and show their work in a supportive environment. Pines & Palms; The ...

A former St. Augustine Cuban cigar factory is set to become a boutique hotel. The former Solla-Carcaba Cigar factory will become a hotel on Riberia Street and Sebastian Harbor Drive. We're told from ...

For nearly half a century, Fidel Castro delighted in the aroma of pure Cuban cigars rolled by expert cigar rollers at the cadence of a profession that dates to the 19th century, that of tobacco ...

The walls do talk at the Maco Cigar Factory in Dickinson. They're Caribbean blue, and they're covered with photos that whisper of childhoods past, homelands lost, bittersweet memories that evoke ...

NEWARK, New Jersey -- The Jimenez family, led by their matriarch Nelda Pozo-Jimenez, has carried on the famous Cuban tradition of cigar rolling in the heart of Newark, New Jersey for over thirty years ...

Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a romantic story set in a cigar factory in Tampa's Ybor City in 1929.

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- The Jimenez family, led by their matriarch Nelda Pozo-Jimenez, have carried on the famous Cuban tradition of cigar rolling in the heart of Newark, New Jersey for over ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On this day 137 years ago, a cigar manufacturing business became the first place in Ybor City to roll a Cuban cigar. According to the J.C. Newman’s cigar museum, on April 13, 1886 ...