Alejandro Benes
The Good Life : Where to Smoke
V Cut Cigar Lounge, Los Angeles, California
V Cut is typical of the Los Angeles cigar-smoking sanctuary in many ways. The humidor is full of the great cigars you’d expect to find in a...more
Posted: April 23, 2012 By Alejandro Benes
January/February 2012 Issue : Good Life Guide
St. Regis, Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii
Makai is Hawaiian for “towards the sea” and therein lays the beauty and the peril of this course. Hole 7, my favorite, is played over the ocean....more
Posted: February 1, 2012 By Alejandro Benes
The Good Life : Where to Smoke
Havana Club Cigar Lounge (& Barbershop), La Quinta Resort & Club, Palm Springs, California
Just recently, I visited La Quinta Resort & Club, built in the 1920s, because the folks there had been so gracious as to open the Havana Club Cigar...more
Posted: November 10, 2011 By Alejandro Benes
CigArtInk Paints a Different Picture
“I was smoking at the [Malibu] Cigar Lounge,” explained Kimball Hall, “and I would take pictures and I wanted to make them different.”...more
Posted: October 19, 2011 By Alejandro Benes
The Good Life : Where to Smoke
Puffing in the 2011 Playoffs—Where to Smoke A Cigar in Baseball’s Postseason
Cigar Aficionado's guide to where you can smoke in MLB’s playoff cities.
Posted: September 29, 2011 By Alejandro Benes
News & Features : News & Features
Dominican Republic Announces Consulate Aimed at Hollywood
If you want to be close to "Hollywood," it seems the thing to do is open your office in Glendale, California. That's what the Dominican Republic did...more
Posted: August 24, 2011 By Alejandro Benes
The Good Life : Where to Smoke
Malibu Cigar Lounge, Pacific Coast Highway
"Carmageddon" aside, if you know anything about getting home to Ventura County from the west side of Los Angeles around 4 p.m., you know that you're...more
Posted: August 3, 2011 By Alejandro Benes
July/August 2011 Issue : Good Life Guide
Going Whole Hog
If you haven’t had bacon off of a whole hog, you haven’t lived,” enthuses Melissa Cookston, whose team is the reigning champion of the...more
Posted: August 1, 2011 By Alejandro Benes
May/June 2011 Issue : Good Life Guide
Pizza School
Yeah, yeah, you love pizza. Sure, you make the “best pizza” at home. But you don’t. You haven’t been to pizza school, possibly the most fun...more
Posted: June 1, 2011 By Alejandro Benes
The Good Life : Where to Smoke
O'Toole's Pub, Honolulu, Hawaii
Here's about all I really know in Hawaiian Pidgin English: ono grinds. It means delicious food. I don't know or much care about the derivation of the...more
Posted: April 12, 2011 By Alejandro Benes
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