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Drinks aside, the tiny dishes of salsa, spice and unrecognizable smoosh were a welcome addition to the homemade tortilla chips—especially after everyone snarfed down the guacamole. Probably the best entrée of the night was shared at the end of the table and consisted of a big piece of meat. Carne Asada, a typical dish all over Latin America, is transformed into a culinary wonder in Inman Square. A thin, flat piece of beef somehow becomes infused with spices and tender love, only to be consumed at a great rate along with the surrounding black beans...
...Gossip Guy fiesta edition? ¡Si! You’ll go loco over our grande lies, rumors con salsa, and el innuendo de los burritos?...
...Club’s recent Calypso party, for example, Emma C. Samelson-Jones ’02 voiced her happiness when she entered the club’s backyard and realized one of her favorite friends at the extension school was playing the drums with the live salsa band commissioned for the event. And Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 can tell you that at least one extension school student appeared at the common casting audition for her hip main stage dance production, Against the Grain...
Part of the cultural resistance to hip-hop has to do with the music's do-it-yourself style. Musicianship in Cuba is traditionally measured purely by formal skill. Even the players working the lounges of Havana hotels are stunningly accomplished. Older Cubans, accustomed to salsa, have difficulty accepting rap as music...
...really one place, you know? Then you have Jamaica and Puerto Rico. I think musically all of that stuff in the Caribbean--the rhythm and the drums--you just get a natural sense of it. Sometimes, when I'm with my friends in the studio, I start to play salsa or merengue, and they're like, "Man, you're playing like you're from Puerto Rico or something!" I don't know how I'm able to do that, but I know it has something to do with the Caribbean. It's just naturally in my blood. I think that...