A lo Cubano
The air at the Village Vanguard is thick with chisme about Fidel. "What do you think it means," the woman at the table next to us asks her companion, "now that Fidel has stepped down?"
I'm busy comparing the front page headlines, photographs, and stories in the Times, the Journal, and The Daily News (generally considered a liberal rag, it wins points for vivid imagery: "Fidel's 50 years of bloody rule come to an end..."). Francisco bought the papers because he's convinced they'll be valuable memorabilia our kids can cash in on 40 years from now on "Antiques Roadshow." Though I don't hear the man's answer, I'm aware the buzz around the room is a hundred variations on this same theme.
