It was close but no cigar for anyone who bid less than $26,950 at auction for a signed box of Cuban cigars from Fidel Castro's personal collection. The Boston-based RR Auction organization said ...

In 2016, cigar smokers throughout the United States breathed a sigh of relief—some may even have given an exuberant shout of joy—when the Obama administration announced that U.S. citizens could now ...

DALLAS — A few hundred feet from a Hong Kong tailor, several fast food joints and an Albertson’s in the Casa Linda neighborhood of East Dallas, Jose Hernandez is rolling cigars. Hernandez, 34, grew up ...

WEBVTT KNOWS HOW COVETED CUBAN CIGARS ARE, IN PART BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN VERY HARD TO COME BY FOR DECADES. BUT WITH THE RECENT NEWS THAT THE U-S AND CUBA ARE THAWING OUT A HALF-CENTURY OF CHILLY ...

It has been a good 12 months for what are euphemistically termed New World cigar producers—that is, those makers based outside Cuba. During the past year, it has been almost as difficult to obtain a ...

On the night of March 1 earlier this year, I find myself at that party. Or close enough. It recalls the oppressive, humid, tropical heat and that unique Latin American atmosphere in which anything can ...