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Died. Compay Segundo, 95, troubadour and godfather of traditional Cuban music who achieved late-life fame for his appearance on the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club and in a starring role in the subsequent documentary; in Havana. The album reintroduced the world to Segundo and other aging, all-but-forgotten masters of son, a style that layers Spanish melodies over African rhythms. Segundo, with his ever present cigar and Panama hat, played around the world and recorded two more albums. "The flowers of life come to everyone," he said. "Mine arrived after...
...seen him once before that summer of 1999, several months earlier. He had stood 12 feet tall, on a movie screen in San Francisco, taking his unlikely star turn as himself in Wim Wender's documentary about the Buena Vista Social Club, the band that a year earlier had won Segundo a Grammy and generally elevated him and a handful of his compatriots from obscure relics of Cuba's golden age to international superstars, icons of the newly rediscovered grace and warmth behind the iron veil of the Cuban embargo...
...Massoud, Paumanok produced a 2000 Merlot that was named one of Bon Appetit's Best Wines of the Year in its 2002 annual review. Half of Paumanok's tasting wines are offered free and are best enjoyed on the airy deck off the tasting room, which provides a lovely vista of the property...
Valdez doesn't have it quite so bad--but don't try to tell her that. While she is busy looking for a new doctor in Sierra Vista for the big day in August, she is still commuting two hours to keep appointments with her current doctor in Tucson. The road to Sierra Vista winds through mountains and creosote flats. "It's going to be summer now, and it's getting hotter here," she says. "I'm afraid of the car breaking down again"--as it did recently while Valdez was driving alone on her way home from Tucson...
Some expectant couples rent motel rooms in Sierra Vista for when their babies are due. But some who can't afford a room or whose timing is off end up with the baby arriving in the middle of the night while they're racing along the highway, according to Copper Queen Hospital CEO James Dickson. The intersection of Highways 80 and 90 is listed as the place of birth on the certificate of a baby girl born in the front passenger seat of a car where those highways cross. Women lacking transportation, a common problem in this working-poor area...