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Toad Hall
A photo essay on Toad Hall 1971 to 1979. The first dance hall in the Castro, Toad Hall may be responsible in part for the influx of gays into the neighborhood during the seventies.Related...
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Through the Past Darkly
Brian Teare’s second book sorts through the past and charts a new path for the future of poetry.A palinode is a poetic denial, a poet’s way of taking back what he has said in an earlier poem. And while...
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Searching for Santería
For a few dollars a day, Isnael scrubbed old paint off of the walls at the home of a friend of mine. The person who’d previously lived in the elegant, decaying house in downtown Havana had used a deep...
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The Real Fidel
I made my second visit to Cuba in 1992. I was crossing Avenida Tercera from the rocky beach in the Miramar neighborhood of Havana on the long walk to my friends’ home in Marianao, and Carlos pointed...
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Fidel Castro: The Playboy Comandante
The twentieth century is fading, not only as a matter of historical time, but also because its icons in politics and culture are disappearing one by one. On September 27, the world awoke to news of the...
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