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Good Guys Smoke Cigars
I think everybody needs a hero. Whether you're young or old, you need someone you can look up to," actor Chuck Norris says as he relaxes on his Texas ranch. "I think kids today …
Cafe Atlantico, Washington, D.C.
If Roberto Alvarez has not achieved the perfect balance of all that is Latin American, he has come as close as anyone in the nation's capital. The philosophy is pretty concise. …
Tequila Sunrise
It's Saturday night at Isadora, a restaurant with a pedigreed clientele in Mexico City's tony Polanco district. In the ground-floor cigar parlor, every banker and entrepreneur …
The Heathman Hotel, Portland, Oregon
If El Niño does to you what the 1996 floods did to many residents of Portland, Oregon, you would do well to find shelter at The Heathman Hotel. Built in 1927, the Heathman is …
The Men Behind the Screens
Hollywood and cigars. It's a natural pairing: the good life with a little roguishness thrown in. But it's always the movie moguls that people envision with smokes jutting from …
A Ferocious Golf Course In the Dominican Republic
Published July/August 1998 In the Teeth of the Dog Devout Duffers Pay Homage to the Dominican Course with the Canine Bite By Jeff Williams Mr. Dog emerges …
Baby Boomer's Backyard Gardens
The scent of cigar smoke and freshly clipped grass are forever linked in my memory. I can't smell one without thinking of the other. Together, they always suggest Saturday …
California's Superbike Camp
An ambulance sits on the road just off the track, the shadowy Angel of Imminent Pain waiting patiently inside with his feet on the dashboard. We all seem to notice him simultaneou…
Cartier's Clocks
The Duke and Duchess of Westminster were having a very bad night. In the fifth year of their marriage, the British royals had a raging scene, which the duchess described in her …
High-Voltage Fireworks
The Fourth of July quickly approaching, George R. "Boom Boom" Zambelli stands near a concrete-block building called a magazine, anxiously watching a 22-ton shipment of explosives …
Men's Suits: Classics Always Come Back In Style
We've gone through our experimental stage, as I believe the great social philosopher Marv Albert put it. For the past 20 years or so, men seem to have experimented with a variety …
Professional Polo: High Speed, High Priced
Every sport has its championship moment--the singular contest that becomes recognized as the game of the century. For polo, that pinnacle may have been reached in the 1996 …
Restoring Classic Cars
Doors swung high like a silvered-steel bird of prey, the Gullwing beckons, dares to be mastered, doubts the ability to tame it. Above all, it toys with the imagination. …
There's Money In Million-Dollar Promotions
It's halftime at the big bowl game and the fans are still in their seats, forgoing a dash to the snack bar lines in favor of a million-dollar proposition unfolding on the field. …
Twentieth-Century Glassmakers
Art glass is a medium of intriguing paradoxes. It is translucent yet dense. Dark and opaque until brought to brilliant life through illumination. Brittle in form yet fluid in …
Swinging for the Fences
It is winter, the time when hibernating baseball fans turn to thoughts of what might have been and what could be, and Bobby Bonilla, a player dogged until recently by accusations …
Cigars
Great Moments
Like those who have shared their Great Moments in this space in the past, I, too, have felt the desire to light up for reasons great and small. However, as an asthmatic and a …
The Canary Island Connection
Cigarmakers in The Canary Islands Try to Rekindle Past Glories While Battling Production Problems
An Interview With Guillermo León
President, León Jimenes Cigars
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Up Front
Tobacco Prohibition
A full-scale assault on cigars has been launched. Public health bureaucrats and antitobacco activists have joined forces in a one-sided attack, a campaign that seeks to stifle …
Out of the Humidor
Dear Marvin, I am a federal worker who quite often commutes the Northeast corridor via Amtrak Metroliner from Philadelphia to D.C. and back in the same day. This grueling …