Rum & TuKola

May 2012

11 posts

May 30, 2012

#Havana #nightlife #design #dj #music

"Waiting for Fidel," 1974 Canadian documentary, is available online, for free. Amazing. → nfb.ca

May 30, 20124 notes

#film #cuba #canada #seventies #retro #communism #fidel

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May 29, 2012

#Cuba #Comedy #Siri #iphone #apple #satire #Marketing

"There are certain places in the world that conjure an almost universal sense of longing; places that seem to carry a palpable sense of themselves in the air..." The Rumpus review of animated-Havana film Chico & Rita → therumpus.net

May 26, 2012

#Cuba #Havana #Film #Movies #cine #animation

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May 25, 20121 note

#Havana #art #food #culinary #politics #paladar

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May 24, 20121 note

#Cuba #Music #salsa #Havana

May 23, 20123 notes

#Cuba #Cooking #plantains #recipes #Havana #food

May 23, 201218 notes

#Cuba #writing #books #Che #communism

Sister Cities

Some of the best descriptions I’ve ever read of Havana are actually from Walter Benjamin’s essay on Naples. The descriptions of the porous living conditions— and even the sensory details— are shockingly, viscerally similar. (via Ernesto Hernandez Busto at Penúltimos Días) 

May 21, 2012

#Havana #Cuba #Cities

On tightened regulations for people-to-people travel to Cuba: “Two paragraphs added to the regulations also reinforce the message that tourism trips are illegal and punishable by a fine of up to $65,000.”

May 16, 2012

#Trourism #Travel #Cuba #Havana

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May 8, 2012

#Cuba #Havana #dance #mambo