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HAVANA — From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside.

Baskets piled high with sparkly beads, multicolored buttons and brilliantly dyed feathers join colorful yarns, bright raffia and scraps of gaudily patterned fabric in a rainbow palette on a table in ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - After a few minutes tossing a string of flat beads and chanting, Rogelio Castellano decides his tourist client is emotionally scarred by an old conflict. Only a $500 ritual goat ...

In my Brooklyn neighborhood, I’m surrounded by Christians, Hasidic and non-Hasidic Jews, Rastafarians, Santeria initiates, and the occasional Sikh. The MP3 player market must have similar diversity, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook By the ocean is where I found my Holy. It is where I return to be washed anew— the sand grains ...