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Salsa Meets Jazz for Puerto Rico

Steve and the gang took a trip to Le Poisson Rouge to check out some swingin' music.

This benefit concert featured:

Bobby Sanabria MULTIVERSE Big Band & David Amram, Paquito D’Rivera, Candido, Jimmy Owens, Randy Brecker, Jon Faddis, Larry Harlow, Eddie Montalvo, Brenda Feliciano, Antoinette Montague, Mariposa and Felipe Luciano, plus DJ Antonio Ocasio (Tribal Winds) and many more surprise guests

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Goodbye, Yosemite. Hello, What?

HOTELS generally don’t figure prominently in my imagination, but Yosemite Valley does, and so does the glamorous Ahwahnee Hotel. When my father took me on Yosemite climbing trips in the 1980s, we never stayed at the Ahwahnee — it costs a fortune — but Dad always brought clean dress shirts so that we could hang out in the Ahwahnee’s kitschy Indian Room Bar before we slept illegally under the evergreens.

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