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Carry on the carnival ... relive the experience all year round

16.08.11
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

CDs of the week: Rufus Wainwright and LMFAO

15.07.11
Our critics round-up this week's biggest music releases...... more

Sierra Maestra feel fresh and progressive

13.05.11
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

A cosmopolitan mix to savour

14.04.11
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

Chico & Rita is a song for swinging lovers

19.11.10
Chico & Rita has an original soundtrack from the legendary Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdés... more

No survivors as plane crashes in Cuba mountains

05.11.10
A Cuban passenger jet en route to the capital Havana crashes, killing all 68 people on board... more

Paloma Faith and the old boys bring love to Victoria Park

19.07.10
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

Fidel Castro emerges on TV to warn of ‘catastrophe’ if US attacks Iran

13.07.10
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 to free 52 political prisoners

08.07.10
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

Bond Girl Eva Green to present top Evening Standard movie award

05.02.10
A roll-call of stars will bring James Bond glamour and quirky individualism to the London Evening Standard British Film Awards next week.... more

Britain’s bright stars up for London Evening Standard British Film Awards

20.01.10
Art house hits such as Bright Star will compete with blockbuster Sherlock Holmes in this year's awards... more

Drunken louts face a blanket ban from every bar in Fulham Broadway

19.01.10
Drunken revellers could be barred from entire neighbourhoods rather than just individual clubs and pubs under new rules to combat alcohol-fuelled crime... more

Pro-Castro mob stops human rights marches

11.12.09
Supporters of Fidel Castro broke up two International Human Rights Day marches in Havana and chased away a British diplomat who was watching... more

CDs of the week: Rihanna, Lady Gaga and 50 Cent

20.11.09
What our critics made of Rihanna, Lady Gaga and 50 Cent's new album.... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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