Category Archives: PERSONAL

Yoani Sánchez: The day peace broke out, in Cuba

“Peace broke out!” the old teacher was heard to say, on the day that Barack Obama and Raúl Castro reported the reestablishment of relations between Cuba and the United States. The phrase captured the symbolism of a moment that had all the connotations of an armistice reached after a long war.  Continue →

Q&A | Filmmaker Eleanor Wilson on making her start in NYC

Actor, director Eleanor Wilson has lived and worked in New York City for the last seven years. Having started out at summer school at the city’s Neighborhood Playhouse, she stayed on to do a two-year acting conservatory and never left.  Continue →