Aurora resident Victor Martinez, 71, plays one of the cigar box guitars he has built. He hopes to begin selling his hand-make cigar box guitars at craft fairs and flea markets this summer.

Someone made a cigar silks smoking jacket in the 1880s style. The cutaway jacket had hundreds of silk cigar bands, imprinted with a brand name, that were feather-stitched in black thread.

In the era of ChatGPT, a traditional trade continues in Havana. Women read songs and novels aloud to the workers who ...

Yaliet Martinez, 43, bands a cigar before putting it into a cellophane tube and packing it in a box. A box of American cigars is displayed in the lobby in Tampa.

A six-pack of GWAR Beer, a collaboration between the death metal band and Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing. It’ll be available Saturday at Crowbar. When Port Richey homebrewer Rob Chalmers and his ...

Because of this, many cigar bands, even those well over 100 years old, still look perfectly new. Themes and subjects run the gamut from animals and birds to beautiful women, famous people, cowboys ...

All are in good condition. –Lillian Geneser, Chicago. A-Write to the International Seal, Label & Cigar Band Society, 8915 E. Bellevue Ave., Tucson, Ariz. 85715.

ALTON — The Third Annual Hand-Rolled Cigar Networking Event is planned 5-8 p.m. Thursdsay, May 23, at Bluff City Grill’s west parking lot, 424 E. Broadway, Alton.