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...dressed sharply and accompanied by two beautiful young women who were clearly neither his nurses nor his nieces. He wore his trademark white Panama hat and clenched a thick H. Upmann cigar in his teeth. And when he arrived to watch our band play at la Casa de Amistad in Havana, the entire crowd turned toward him and applauded, a long ovation that he shrugged off with a sly smile before sitting down with his escorts and ordering rum for the entire table...
...Inspired in part by the music they made, I put my fledgling career as a jazz saxophonist on hold and headed with my girlfriend to experience Havana firsthand. Before long I was playing with El Septeto Tipico de la Habana, a talented and remarkably underpaid group of musicians who played weeknights at la Casa de Amistad (The House of Friendship). The casa was a mansion that had been nationalized to become a cultural institute and was now hosting Puerto Rican socialists on solidarity junkets, Cuban black marketeers and bureaucrats, and the occasional stray tourist...
...Cats had an even more negative reaction. When they heard the news, they called their own meeting - in Paris, of course - to denounce canine subservience to the human hyperpower. (Their manifesto - La Condition Feline - can still be found in provincial bookstores...
...including the legendary Avignon festival, shut down for the first time in its 57-year history. On Thursday, Avignon director Bernard Faivre d'Arcier somberly announced his program had fallen victim to unruly protests by striking performing-arts workers - strikes that torpedoed music festivals in Aix-en-Provence and La Rochelle earlier in the week. Many more events in France's annual calendar of 650 arts fests are also expected to fold, depriving hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers of their summer culture fix. The demonstrations by performance workers - from actors and choreographers to roadies - are part of a rising tide...
...operations for Wade Funeral Home in St. Louis, Mo., works far from Hollywood, but she has embraced the new trend too. Kellom has designed her home's viewing rooms to reflect the popular pastimes of her African-American clientele. One is a TV den with golf clubs and a La-Z-Boy; another is called Big Moma's Kitchen and displays a can of Crisco sitting atop a stove, Wonder Bread on the fridge and a dinette table loaded with real fried chicken. "What we had been doing traditionally wasn't as meaningful," explains Kellom. Many black mothers "take pride...