July/August 2009 | Cigar Aficionado

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Entourage • July/August 2009

In the August issue of Cigar Aficionado, we visit the set of HBO's "Entourage," a show about a young actor from Queens who goes to Hollywood to make his career and brings his lifelong friends along for the ride. Other features include an article on what sports management is doing about star athletes who act like prima donnas, a preview of the Top 10 poker faces you're likely to see at the final table of the World Series of Poker, plus a profile of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy.

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Features

HBO's Boys of Summer

After five seasons, HBO's "Entourage" already had a high cool factor—but an endorsement from President Barack Obama? Now that's serious. Here's the most popular …

The Wizards of Poker

DOYLE BRUNSON Iron Man Doyle Brunson has played longer and at a higher level than anyone else in the game of poker. Over the last few years, despite competing in fewer …

Renegade Athletes

It's a Monday night in late February, nearly three-quarters of the way through the 2008-2009 NBA season, and the pasty-faced man who single-handedly whacked point guard Stephon …

The Wee Irish Golfer

The Next Big Thing in golf comes in a small package. He's not the product of an American college juggernaut or fancy golf academy. He looks more like a member of the Brady Bunch …

Is It Time to Upgrade?

Say you already own a functional digital Doohickey that basically gets the job done—should you be upgrading to Doohickey 2.0? Sometimes a new model represents a genuine leap in …

Cigars

An Interview with Charlie Toraño

Carlos Octavio Toraño, known to the cigar world as Charlie, was born into a family that has worked with cigar tobacco for close to 100 years.

A Cigar Smoker's Paradise

It seems a shame that when President Obama loosened restriipections on travel to Cuba in April, he extended the slackening only to Cuban-Americans. While it's important that …

The Legend of El Tiante

Luis Tiant's reputation lives on in New England, where he is forever linked to the 1975 Boston Red Sox, one of the best teams in the franchise's frustrating twentieth-century …

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Aurora 100 Años Preferido

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H. Upmann Reserve Maduro Belicoso

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Up Front

Fighting Back

The city of Spokane, Washington, proposed a smoking ban for its public golf courses, part of a broader ban on smoking in all public parks. Officials had already prohibited smoking …

Out of the Humidor

Dear Marvin, Thank you and all who were involved in the Els For Autism fund-raising event. I have many friends with autistic children and I also have an autistic niece. I cannot …