“Sharing a room with another alpha female is not easy. […] We know how to work with each other at this point,” says Yvette Rodriguez. For twin sisters Yvette and Yvonne Rodriguez, their grandmother ...

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 ...

When you picture a person smoking a great cigar, Yvette and Yvonne Rodriguez want you to picture a Black woman. They know a lot of people picture a light-skinned abuelo in a guayabera, but the cigar ...

In 1962, José Orlando Padrón, a third-generation Cuban tobacco grower, ended up in Miami after the Castro regime confiscated his family’s farms. It took only two years for him to set up shop making ...

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 ...

A Recent Court Ruling Allows a U.S. Company to use the Coveted Cohiba Brand April 3rd, 2013— -- Cuba has accused the U.S. of allowing American companies to "blatantly steal" some of the island's ...

How to read a cigar label properly, from origin and wrapper to format and maker, so you know exactly what you are lighting.