Cuban Miami

For over 40 years, Villapol hosted a popular cooking show in Cuba, her recipes shifting to reflect the realities of life under the revolution. No meat? No problem — she fried plantain peels instead.

Alt.Latino takes a trip into the vault to remember Graciela, the Queen of Latin Jazz, but also showcases a great new Cuban jazz singer and rapper named La Dame Blanche.

The recurring image of a pierced heart in a gallery at the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale is almost certainly coincidental. But former Miami Herald art…

This year has seen a growing chorus of polls, studies and statements calling for an overhaul of U.S. policy on communist Cuba. On Monday a new group…

David’s Café, an iconic South Beach haunt for locals and tourists alike, closed its doors for good this weekend.Located the corner of 11th Street and…

If you were to read the week's top stories as just one, the plotline would be a little like this: A caffeine-driven abuela is on the loose. She is wanted…

At LAB Miami in Wynwood this past weekend, local software developers and designers formed teams to compete for the best app that would give Cubans on the…

In Hialeah’s Power Food Supermarket, a lottery cashier named Isabel takes a pause between customers.In nine years working at the store, she has seen many…

Among Latinos, no group may have achieved the American dream as fully as Cuban-Americans. Since arriving here, as a community, they've prospered. But our recent poll suggests that for many Cuban-Americans, the dream is becoming elusive.

Bruno Poso was only seven when he was initiated into his family’s domino clique. “I didn’t even know what I was doing, but it was the best thing I had…

This piece originally aired in December 2013.Gringos like me don’t forget their first hallaca.Mine was lying on a simple white plate, in the coastal town…

It was the summer of 1990. I was home, living with my parents, working part-time at a Miami television station as a production assistant. I made an…