The no-cover event brings hand-made cigar makers and sellers from around the world to Ybor’s Centennial Park, where there will be cigar rolling demonstrations, drinks, food trucks, and local artisans.

As Edga Ramaz worked in front of them, Paul Shubert passionately talked to Knance Phelps about marrying, about finding a love naked, about strippers. So goes the conversation when an esteemed master ...

DALLAS — A few hundred feet from a Hong Kong tailor, several fast food joints and an Albertson’s in the Casa Linda neighborhood of East Dallas, Jose Hernandez is rolling cigars. Hernandez, 34, grew up ...

Photos courtesy of Derrick Richardson Photos courtesy of Derrick Richardson Event organizer Derrick Richardson (left) poses with musician Gigi Darr (right) during last year’s Hand Rolled Cigar ...

NASHUA - While only in business for a year, Gate City Cigars is already starting to receive recognition for its custom, hand-rolled Nicaraguan cigars. Mike Eracleo and his partner, Panos Panourgias, ...

HUNTINGTON -- Huntington native Stoney Chaffin's life revolves around cigars. That would make him a workaholic, in his view. While some consider smoking a cigar an enjoyable but relatively ...

At Nice Ash in Depew, owner Rob Roth thought it would be fun if they could make their own cigars. But he couldn't find anyone locally who could do the job. Roth's marketing man volunteered to learn ...

Some call it the big wrapper crisis: A tobacco shortage for premium cigars, and Historic Ybor City is being impacted according to the owner of Tabanero Cigars. “Everyone is buying as much tobacco as ...

Tulsa’s Ultimo Cigars is the only hand-rolled cigar shop in Oklahoma, or anywhere else close by. It’s the dream of the shop owner and cigar roller Tomas Baquier Baldonado. Baquier Baldonado said he ...

DOMENICO, GREECE — Greek households are cutting expenses and spending less time at restaurants and hair salons. But one local luxury is defying the downturn: hand-rolled cigars. Business is good at ...

An integral part of Florida’s cultural heritage — hand-rolled cigars — is in danger of being snuffed out by an overzealous federal Food and Drug Administration. That’s distressing: The cigar-making ...

In Cuban, Dominican and Honduran cigar factories decades ago, a man — El Lector, or “he who reads” — used to sit in a chair in front of the rows of cigar rollers bent over their desks. His job was to ...