Caribbean and Latin sounds dominate Notting Hill over the Bank Holiday weekend, but you find a carnival spirit in the capital 365 days of the year, says Sarah Marshall... more
Tracks from the new album felt fresh, progressive: led by Jesus Bello's rich tenor voice Sangre Negra was a joyous celebration of Sierra Maestra's genius... more
The Experimental Cocktail Club, a speakeasy-style bar owned by the same trio of Frenchmen behind ECC's Parisian sister, is the kind of place you whisper to friends about... more
Lovebox may not be quite as flamboyantly dance-orientated as it once was, but since it moved from the clubs to outdoors it’s pedalled its way through the festival peloton to become a London institution... more
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro makes his first major appearance on TV for four years to warn that it would be a “catastrophe” if the US attacked Iran... more
Cuba has promised the Roman Catholic Church it will free 52 political prisoners — nearly a third of those held — in the communist-run island’s largest release of dissidents since Pope John Paul II visited in 1998... more
Drunken revellers could be barred from entire neighbourhoods rather than just individual clubs and pubs under new rules to combat alcohol-fuelled crime... more
In this week's travel round-up - Beirut is fast becoming the focus of high-end hotels and why you don't have to rough it at next summer's World Cup... more
It’s not easy to sing, to really belt it out, while dancing as if on castors. But Los Van Van’s four lead vocalists deliver their epic Spanish-language songs with instinctive dexterity, backed by a crew of musicians with some cool moves of their own... more
Get new contemporary Japanese, Habuka, on your radar, because next time you're feeling clueless and hungry round Tottenham Court Road, you could do worse... more
La Bodeguita del Medio takes its name from a restaurant in old Havana of which Ernest Hemingway was a regular and where "everything but unhappiness is permitted". ... more
Having shaken its collective derriere all the way from Havana, The Best of Cuban Music Awards exploded into London amid cigar smoke, to the clink of several hundred mojitos.... more
Toby Young didn't have a great dining experience when he visited Floridita, and he suggests people arrive after midnight, having already eaten somewhere else.... more
Andy Garcia's new film The Lost City is about the country he loved, and left, as a child and the star says he won't return to Cuba until its current leader Castro has gone.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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