No one would imagine the Dodgers center fielder Yasiel Puig listening rock music in his free time. One associates him more with reggaeton, or timba, and if he is feeling romantic, maybe a bolero, but not heavy metal band must include him among its followers. But, the aggressive way of playing of the Cuban, his meteoric rise in the Major League Baseball and the attention generated by the media, led a group of young Americans to form a rock band with the name Puig Destroyer. In a country where the ball is part of the popular culture it is strange that the presence of this in music is relegated to a few examples, with special reference to the song Centerfield by John Fogerty, great tribute to that position players as Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, and Ty Cobb were, which is continuously played at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Last year Thrice drummer Riley Breckenridge and bassist Ian Miller, while recording a podcast titled Productive Outs were talking about the moving up from the Minors of Puig to the LA Dodgers, and suddenly they decided to form a band called Puig Destroyer What at first was just a joke, quickly...

A photo of Yasiel Puig smiling, with three bats of different colors on his shoulder appears in the cover of the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine, the journal of the TV sports network. A sign over his head announces the main theme of this issue: Cuba. Next February 17th, readers can enjoy exclusive interviews to some of the most renowned Cuban athletes at this time in the United States as the baseball players Aroldis Chapman, Yasiel Puig, Yoenis Cespedes and Jose Fernandez. The interviews go beyond the sporting aspect and venture into the lifestyle, nostalgia for their homeland, the interaction between them, dreams to fulfill. Puig opens the doors of his house where, amid laughter and anecdotes, he clarifies a bit the mystery of his origins to American fans. His adventures to get out of Cuba, the call of former Yankees coach Joe Torres to the Dodgers general manager claiming to have someone amazing, and his subsequent signing by 42 million dollars are part of an interview peppered with Puig´s Cuban humor, who is revered for his skills in the fields and criticized for his childish off them. Chapman received the ESPN team in his five bedrooms and six...

Those who walk on 23rd Street in the Havana neighbourhood of Vedado, must have felt sorry for the solitude of the “illustrious nobleman from La Mancha”, who, spear in hand, naked, rides on his faithful Rocinante, in the park that bears his name: Don Quixote. You cannot think of the errant knight without remembering his squire, the chubby and good-natured Sancho Panza. It seems like the artist couldn’t fully understand one of the most beautiful examples of friendship in the entire world literature, and left him out.

Javier Martinez is a true entrepreneur. In a country where people are not prone to try new dishes, this young man dared to open a cafeteria whose star option is the Mexican burrito. “When I came with idea of opening this place, I thought of fast food, but I didn’t want it to be like what everybody else was selling,” Javier tells OnCuba, sitting in his “El Burrito habanero.” His trips around the world as a cook, especially those to Mexico, made him dream of selling, some day, Mexican tacos in Havana.