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Hector Lavoe

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    The Top 10 Christmas Albums Of 2010

    No.​Ah, another shitty year is ending, and we find ourselves trying to buy our way out of it with Christmas presents while struggling to block out the same old endless stream of yuletide muzak. Luckily, there's always a few notable holiday-album standouts to break the tedium, this year includi ... More >>

  • Music

    January 26, 2010

    Tales From Aventura Land

    An enchanted evening with the Latin-pop superstars, and the ladies who adore them

  • Music

    June 3, 2008

    New Yorkers Use Classic Salsa to Fight Gentrification

    New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2007

    Things I Learned Watching El Cantante

    New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

  • Columns

    July 31, 2007

    Can You Top This?

    Unrelated: the city's sex life bottoms out; Hillary's gal Friday; Dean among the Queens

  • Film

    July 31, 2007

    Love Goes To Buildings On Fire

    1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!

  • Film

    July 24, 2007

    El Cantante

    1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!

  • Columns

    July 17, 2007

    Gilty Pleasures

    Stopping, looking, and glistening at the Maria Felix bash; wondering what colors Michael Moore will paint on his rainbow.

  • Music

    May 29, 2007

    Mr. Colón's Opus

    The heyday of Johnny Colón's venerable East Harlem Jazz School may be yet to come

  • Music

    May 22, 2007

    Discovering the Illmatic of Salsa

    A spin through the prodigious Fania reissue catalog brings new appreciation for an old style

  • Columns

    May 22, 2007

    My Cup Runneth Over

    . . . with beauty queens, drama queens, and just plain queens. Plus dirt so dirty it'll make you go go blind

  • Music

    May 15, 2007

    The Re-Entroducer

    Professor, blogger, DJ, curator, and music zealot Oliver Wang reveals even more Soul Sides

  • NYC Life

    May 8, 2007

    Summer Movies: Free Air-Conditioning at the Cineplex

    Too hot to deal? Take shelter in the cool and dark of the matinee.

  • Music

    March 27, 2007

    Miami Vices

    NYC DJs invade the beaches, yachts, and Radio Shacks of South Beach's famed Winter Music Conference

  • NYC Life

    January 2, 2007

    No One Else on the Plane

    New York nightlife titans salute James Brown, the most titanic of them all

  • Film

    December 26, 2006

    Orgy of Sequels to Climax in 2007

    Will the public get off, or just the studios?

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2006

    Pitbull: Better Than Nas

    Will the public get off, or just the studios?

  • Music

    August 3, 2004

    Looking Past Differences

    Don't let the young Republicans put you in jail or the restless hipsters scare you away

  • News

    January 6, 2004

    Latin Swing's Last Lion

    Johnny Pacheco Returns To The New York His Salsa Once Changed

  • Film

    December 11, 2001

    That Puerto Rican Swing

    If They Could Be Like Mikey...

  • News

    September 5, 2000

    Chaos Theory

    In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

  • Theater

    August 3, 1999

    Psycho Analysis

    In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

  • Music

    February 16, 1999

    Beyond Salsa

    In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

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