Elian Gonzalez looking nice boy! Check him out in this recently released pic by the Cuban government:
The photo of Elian, now 16, wearing an olive-green military school uniform was taken at the Young Communist Union congress.
Many of you may know the story of 5 year-old Elian who was found floating off the Florida coast in an inner-tube after his mom and other's drowned in their attempt to reach the States. Well he was taken in by family in Fl who refused to give him back to his Dad who was still in Cuba. The American immigration officials ruled that he shoud be returned to Cuba... Boy dem Miami people was blue vex. I remember all the hoopla surrounding him. Anyhow. Federal agents came and forcibly removed him and reunited him with his father Juan. When he returned to Cuba his dad got a seat in parliament. The Cuban government celebrates his birthday every Dec. 7th. In 2008 he formally joined the Young Communist Union.
I wish him all the best. He will no doubt go to University in Cuba and be well-educated. Cuba has some of the best doctors in the world, many of whom have trained regional doctors and lent their expertise to many islands during times of disaster, including Haiti and even Thailand.
"It's a girl, Violet will be her first name," Tarrius Nash AKA The Dream revealed to MTV News. "I'm not telling you the middle name, you gon' get me in trouble." Still, with all the excitement a new couple experiences with their first child, Dream said it's business as usual in the Nash household.
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According to him his wife Christina Milian should give birth by this Sunday. We wish them all the best!
Read the rest of the interview with MTV News HERE.
A pregnant Christina Milian in LA recentlyAccording to TMZ:
Christina Milian's 81-year-old neighbor claims he was mauled by one of her dogs back in 2008 -- and now the man wants Christina to pay for the canine's alleged brutality.Leo Skolion filed a lawsuit against Christina and family earlier this month in L.A. County Superior Court, claiming the family's negligence lead to the attack that left him with "severe personal injuries."Leo tells TMZ it all started in October of '08, when Christina's home had "flooding problems" which caused a gate between their properties to become damaged.Leo says he went over to speak to the family about repairing the gate when one of their dogs escaped ... then attacked him from behind and bit "a huge chunk" out of the back of his arm.The 81-year-old claims it took 19 stitches and 9 months of rehabilitation to get back to normal -- and that he still has to receive psychiatric help for fear and depression.Leo is suing Christina -- real name Christine Flores -- her mother Carmen and her sister Danielle for an undetermined amount.
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Check out these pics of Juanes' Concert for Peace in Cuba! So wish I was there: I love Juanes!!!!!!
Juanes holding a Cuban flag!Article from Boston.com:
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans flocked to Revolution Plaza yesterday for an open-air “peace concert’’ headlined by Colombian rocker Juanes, an event criticized by some Cuban-Americans who said the performers lent support to the island’s communist government simply by showing up.
The MASSIVE crowd!
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Singers Juanes (L) of Colombia and Miguel Bose of Spain perform during the "Peace Without Borders" concert in Havana's Revolution Square September 20, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Photo source
Cuban singer X Alfonso (R) performs with his band during the "Peace Without Borders" concert in Havana's Revolution Square September 20, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters PhotoPhoto source
Organizers said they expected as many as a half-million people to attend the four-hour concert under a broiling Havana sun, making the Colombian heartthrob’s visit the biggest by an outsider since Pope John Paul II’s 1998 tour.
Hundreds of public buses ferried young and old to the concert site, and the government laid on even more transportation, hoping for a large turnout. Most concertgoers wore white - to symbolize peace - and some held up signs reading “Peace on Earth’’ and “We Love You Juanes.’’
“We are going to stay as long as we have the strength,’’ said Cristina Rodriguez, a 43-year-old nurse accompanied by her teenage son, Felix.
Across the Florida Straits, Juanes has endured death threats, CD smashing protests, and boycotts since his decision to hold the “Peace Without Borders’’ concert in Havana. Police in Key Biscayne, Fla., kept watch over the homes of both the rocker and his manager, Fernan Martinez Maecha.
Still, the criticism from Florida was far from universal. Spanish-language stations covered the event, and several exile groups have voiced support, describing the concert as a rare chance for Cubans to get a glimpse of the outside world.
Some Cuban officials used the opportunity to deride US foreign policy toward Cuba, and the 47-year trade embargo in particular. But Juanes has insisted the concert was about music, not politics.
“It is one more grain of sand for improving relations through art,’’ the singer said.
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Straight from AP:
It's well after midnight and the New Yorker is strutting down a crumbling sidewalk in impossibly high — red-sequined — heels, lip-syncing a few seconds of her rap while cameras roll for a music video.
Almost inevitably, a misstep on Havana's cracked and uneven concrete sends her pitching forward.
"Sorry, I'm going again," giggles singer and rapper Lumidee, regaining her balance and turning sharply on the same heel that nearly toppled her to head back down the block.
"Yeah," director Michel Miglis yells from behind a camera perched on a second-floor balcony over her head. "And don't smile!"
Best-known for her summer smash of six years ago, "Never Leave You" — think "Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh" — 24-year-old Lumidee has come to Cuba to finish a video for Iranian-born signer Arash Labaf's song "Kandi," to which she contributed rap solos.
It's Labaf's third video in Cuba, but including Lumidee makes the production one of very few music videos filmed on the island to feature an American. Forty-seven years of U.S. economic sanctions have choked off nearly all travel and trade between the two countries.
Her trip to Cuba is more proof that while the Obama administration and the government of Cuba talk tentatively about improving relations, the entertainment world is already well into the thaw.
"When I heard the shoot was in Cuba I panicked. I didn't know what to expect, and I was a little bit scared to come," said Lumidee, who was born Lumiana DeRosa Cedeno.
"You don't know how it's going to be. Like you're not wanted here, and the people would not like you," she said. "But Cubans just seem happy and laid back."
The video, in which Labaf plays himself and three goofball characters vying for the girl, includes shots on a beach east of Havana and at the famed Bacardi Building downtown, which served as headquarters of the rum giant before it fled the island after Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
U.S. jazz and folk musicians have often worked with Cuban colleagues. Collaborations have included Ry Cooder in the Buena Vista Social Club recordings of the 1990s and jazz festival appearances by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette.
Audioslave broke the decades-long barrier to U.S. rock concerts in Cuba with a thundering show on the Cuban capital's seaside Malecon in 2005. But Washington's trade sanctions and the Cuban government's ambivalence toward rock and rap have kept most American musicians away.
Lumidee, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, grew up in Spanish Harlem. She and an entourage including her manager and husband, makeup artist and a DJ friend had to fly through a third country because of their U.S. passports. She asked that her full itinerary not be published to avoid problems with American authorities.
Hey it's an interesting article....
Read the rest of it HERE.
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