[ In Cuban ] May 30, 2009
Obama Raises Hopes For Revived Interest In Cuban Music
Will 2009 bring another Cuban invasion?
Obama Raises Hopes For Revived Interest In Cuban Music
Will 2009 bring another Cuban invasion?
Jun 22, 2008 When Giulia Tellarini got a message on MySpace from Allen's producer about featuring her band's music in the new movie "Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona," she thought it was a joke. Published on Billboard.com and BillboardenEspanol.com. [ In International ]
Remembering Cachao
Mar 26, 2008 For Cachao, innovation was the anecdote to old age. He never stopped performing and recording, or telling stories, particularly about the musical history that he had a considerable hand in creating. Hearing of Cachao's death, I remembered a meal we shared in his favorite restaurant in Miami's Little Havana. Story originally published in The Miami Herald's Street Weekly. [ In Cuban ]
Mar 26, 2008 For Cachao, innovation was the anecdote to old age. He never stopped performing and recording, or telling stories, particularly about the musical history that he had a considerable hand in creating. Hearing of Cachao's death, I remembered a meal we shared in his favorite restaurant in Miami's Little Havana. Story originally published in The Miami Herald's Street Weekly. [ In Cuban ]
Nov 24, 2007 Argentine stadium rock pioneers Soda Stereo got back together at the Estadio River Plate for the first concert of their international reunion tour. Like about 70,000 other people, there was no way I was going to miss seeing Soda again. I reported on the show for the Rhapsody blog. [ In Rock and Pop ]
Nov 23, 2007 I was the editorial director of the trilingual, interactive Cisneros Collection site. It tells the story of modern and contemporary art in Latin America through the works in the collection. Explore it here. [ In ARTS ]
Nov 22, 2007
Judy Cantor-Navas
Seems like everyone I meet is crazy for Barcelona. If they haven't been, they're on their way, and they're asking me, the big Barcelonut, for some tips. Bon Viatge!
[ In Barcelonut ]
Nov 21, 2007 Grammy-winning pianist Bebo Valdés tells the story of his life through this playlist of great Cuban classics and jazz tracks. This playlist originally appeared on MTV's URGE digital music service. [ In Cuban ]
Nov 20, 2007 The carnage wrought by Reinaldo Silvestre, who passed as a plastic surgeon, preying on South Floridians' weakness for boob jobs. The phony doctor's luxe life ended when a man woke up on his table with breasts. A comic published in Mexico's Picnic magazine. [ In COMICS ]
Nov 19, 2007 I spoke to NPR's All Things Considered about a bunch of albums by young Cuban artists living on and off the island. [ In Cuban ]
Jan 30, 2007 “What I call a landscape exists uniquely on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea,” wrote Dalí. “Where this landscape becomes best, the most beautiful, most excellent, and most intelligent is precisely in the vicinity of Cadaqués, where each hill, each rocky contour might have been drawn by Leonardo himself.” On a trip to the Costa Brava, I'm reminded that what’s important is not who an artist is, but what he makes us see. Read the story in english here. [ In TRAVEL ]
Mar 6, 2005 Cantor. Judy Cantor. My adventure at the former home of Bond author Ian Fleming. [ In TRAVEL ]
Mar 1, 2005 Most of Miami's fabulous modern tropical homes from the fifties are gone now. So is Rufus Nims, an architect and a gentleman who died not long after I wrote this piece for Dwell. I was privileged to hear his story. [ In DESIGN ]
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