SOCIETY
By globalized humanism
Old answers to new problems?Globalization is an invitation to open minds. It is a challenge to widen hearts and borders in the face of a change of epoch that also involves the fall of walls […]
Year: 2019
SOCIETY
Un poco de verdad y una aspirina
“I’m one, but there are crowds in me.”Zeno “Tell the truth.At least tell your truth.”Heberto PadillaPoetic “… Oh deaf window to the outside,oh doors closed carefully;customs coming from ancient times[…] never entirely understood.”Rainier Maria RilkeMalte’s […]
SPORT
FCB-MLB: A historic deal
The new agreement between the Cuban Baseball Federation and major league baseball in the United States is a decisive step in normalizing the sport’s relations and the island’s athletes with abroad.
CULTURE
An expected autobiography
For someone to decide to write about someone else’s life or their own memories, they need to have two big points in their favor. The first, to possess a successful pen and then to make […]
CULTURE
Merced Street
José María de la Torre says that in 1637 a church and convent was designed that would be dedicated to the Marian advocation of the Merced, redeemer of captives. This one would be built in […]
CULTURE
Juan Quinquin turns 50
Historians, critics, theorists and audiences have consented to call “the four classics of Cuban cinema”, a set of feature films that are already half a century old. The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967), Memoirs […]
SPORT
In Cuba, the winds of the greatest blow
As a hurricane force five began to circulate the news of the agreement reached between the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) and Major League Baseball (MLB), with the consent of the MLB Players Association (MLBPA). The […]
RELIGION
From the Sminary: Evangelizers of Everyday Life
Passing through Monumental Avenue, there are many who are trapped by the beauty that shows the property where our house resides since 2010. A large upright cross over the central building greets all who are […]
RELIGION
From the Bible: Jewish gastronomic customs
In the previous issue we spoke of the causes of legal impurity in Judaism, which did not belong, primarily, to the field of hygiene or morality, but to the liturgy. Impurity disabled the “impure” from […]
SOCIETY
El piano y nuestros pianistas (Fragmentos)
The composer and music critic Serafín Ramírez Fernández (1832-1907), one of our first musicologists given the transcendence of his writings, bequeathed numerous articles on music and capitalist cultural life in the nineteenth century. His work […]