It’s taken me a while to sift through the 11 entries carefully, but we now have a winner in the “Zivity/Cigar Reader Redefine Smokin’ Hot with a Cigar Shot” photo contest. Picking a winner was a painful process for me – very difficult. There so many great entries that I had to make some incredibly [...]
Something very interesting is happening in Castro’s Back Room in Nashua, New Hampshire. Baseball equipment is being accumulated. No, this doesn’t represent a change in strategy for the cigar shop – rather, it highlights a new perspective. Last winter, the store’s Eric Kilbane visited the Perdomo factory a few hours from Esteli, Nicaragua and noticed [...]
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Last week, Ed wrote a program at City Cigars in Richardson, Texas, that sends sticks to military personnel serving overseas — and “overseas” means something much different now than when I served. The local Fox station down there decided to run with the story, and since I’ll never pass up a story about getting cigars [...]
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More than 30 cigar manufacturers will converge on Colorado on August 29, 2010 for the first 1st Annual Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival. Rocky Patel, Jonathan Drew (Drew Estate) and Tatianna (of Tatianna Cigars) will be in attendance. The $100 ticket price ($150 for VIP access) gets you 20 cigars, 10 drink tickets and other stuff, [...]
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July 1, 2010, a new cigarette tax hike took effect in New York and just after a few weeks it looks like it is proving to be more troublesome than politicians thought. Now with smokers crossing state lines to pick up smokes and illegal smuggling operations it looks as if they are weighting their options. [...]
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