Caribbean editor Gay Nagle Myers is in Cuba on a six-day Friendly Planet travel agent fam trip, exploring Havana and its environs. HAVANA -- The best piece of advice I heard today came from Elias ...

All over America old industrial and manufacturing buildings are being turned into art spaces, places where artists can work, teach and show their work in a supportive environment. Pines & Palms; The ...

Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a romantic story set in a cigar factory in Tampa's Ybor City in 1929.

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- The Jimenez family, led by their matriarch Nelda Pozo-Jimenez, have carried on the famous Cuban tradition of cigar rolling in the heart of Newark, New Jersey for over ...

A former St. Augustine Cuban cigar factory is set to become a boutique hotel. The former Solla-Carcaba Cigar factory will become a hotel on Riberia Street and Sebastian Harbor Drive. We're told from ...

I was being driven around Havana the other day when the taxi driver told me a joke. A Cuban descending into hell finds it divided by nationality. The torture of the day involves beatings with sticks ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On this day 137 years ago, a cigar manufacturing business became the first place in Ybor City to roll a Cuban cigar. According to the J.C. Newman’s cigar museum, on April 13, 1886 ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Milagros Diaz has been rolling cigars for 48 years, so long she cannot even smell tobacco anymore, and she is thrilled that the U.S. market is finally opening up for her handmade ...

The walls do talk at the Maco Cigar Factory in Dickinson. They're Caribbean blue, and they're covered with photos that whisper of childhoods past, homelands lost, bittersweet memories that evoke ...

PINAR DEL RIO, CUBA (Reuters) - Communist-led Cuba is struggling to maintain the supply of some premium cigar brands in the face of poor tobacco harvests and rising demand, industry experts said at ...