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Travel round-up

04.11.09
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

JFK hijack suspect seized 40 years on

12.10.09
A man wanted for hijacking a flight out of New York 41 years ago has been arrested after flying back into the city from Cuba.... more

Tired Carlos Acosta can make the heart leap

24.07.09
Carlos Acosta arrived on the dance scene a decade ago, and there’s been unreserved raving ever since.... more

Why art is the social lubricant of our great city

10.07.09
At last night’s annual Serpentine Summer party, London shoulders its way to the front of the queue when it comes to sexing up the art world ... more

I'm glad I left him, says the ex-wife of sex row diplomat

10.07.09
Former wife of a British diplomat told of her disgust after he was caught on film having sex with two prostitutes in Russia... more

Strawberry and Chocolate is still an important film

03.07.09
Made in 1994, when homosexuality was frowned upon in Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s film seems tamer now than it did.... more

Top headteacher held over £500,000 Cuba trip expenses

11.06.09
One of London's leading headteachers has been arrested over allegations of a £500,000 expenses fraud linked to a Cuban exchange programme... more

Check out late deals for the summer

21.05.09
Kristy Gray takes a look at the best bargain breaks, from Devon to Brittany, St Lucia, Mauritius or the Galapagos Islands... more

New Orleans spirit burns bright for Terence Blanchard

12.05.09
Trumpeter Terence Blanchard is making a dignified transition from youthful firebrand to elder statesman.... more

Cubans kick their heels in Havana Rakatan

07.05.09
Every now and then a dance show comes along that has such runaway enthusiasm that you bin the criticism. Havana Rakatan is such a show.... more

Singing with your supper

15.04.09
Combine dining out with a live music set at some of London's top restaurants.... more

What else is new: Los Van Van

09.03.09
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

It's payback time for the City's greedy freeloaders

15.10.08
We are living through days comparable to the atrocities of September 2001 or the fall of communism in November 1989. Historians will look back at the autumn of 2008 as another moment of crisis when conventional assumptions were shattered almost overnight.... more

Eastern treats in the buzzy West End

11.09.08
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

Cuban memories make fine film

10.07.08
Sixties classic of the Cuban cinema, Memories of Under-Development, is one of the most audacious and sophisticated movies of its time.... more

Oil brings Cuba closer to USA

12.06.08
Trade between the US and Cuba may recommence as a major oil drill entices America... more

Lack of stars

09.11.07
Though enticingly billed as "the best of this year's Cubadisco", many had expected a bigger picture at the Cuban Music Awards.... more

Smokers discover the great outdoors

29.06.07
The smoking ban is now in force, but some enterprising bar owners in the capital have ensured there will still be places to spark up in.... more

The Last Gasp

26.06.07
The smoking ban comes into force on July 1. See how London's bars are bidding their fond farewells to the humble cigarette.... more

Not Havana fabulous time

25.05.07
Havana Rakatan contains a strong African flavour and a feelgood display of Cuban grooves, says Sarah Frater. But it doesn't really work.... more

London's Latin lesson

13.04.07
As London's appetite for things Latin grows, so La Linea assumes a growing importance in the capital's musical calendar.... more

The queen and I

08.02.07
He took home an Evening Standard film award this week and is up for 10 Oscars, yet Stephen Frears isn't sure why his royal drama is such a hit. Maybe because it's about British dottiness, he says.... more

Crockett? Johnson is more Tubs as main Guy

19.01.07
Casting Don Johnson, best remembered as smoothie detective Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice, as Nathan Detroit in spiv musical Guys And Dolls was always going to be a high-risk gamble. ... more

Fay's restaurant gongs for 2006

27.12.06
Fay Maschler focuses on Asian, Italian, Latin American, gastropubs and places where it's tough to get a table.... more

Cuban joins the Latino revolution

13.12.06
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

A spirit-soaked rumba party

30.10.06
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

Give this Cuban menu a miss

23.10.06
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

Farewell to Cuba

11.08.06
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

Debut lacks song and dance

08.08.06
Patrick Swayze's legions of fans will no doubt have the time of their lives seeing him in the flesh in Guys and Dolls, but lovers of musical theatre are unlikely to be impressed.... more

Billy Elliot, Cuban-style

03.08.06
Dance review: Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta stars in this coming-of-age/rite-of-passage show, a sort of Billy Elliot with salsa that taps the popularity of all things Latin and the considerable charms of Acosta himself. ... more

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