Cuba nights. Cuba sounds. Cuba Libres. Get all that and more at Cuba Casino Night, a benefit for the St. Petersburg Museum of History. Enter the museum, transformed into a Havana casino from the fifties, and spend the night high rolling (and watching cigar rolling). The night includes $10,000 in gambling chips, live music a la Ricky R., Cuban food from Pipo’s (best yucca I’ve had outside a private home) and, of course, cocktails. Cigar aficionados, rejoice — you’ll also be able to watch real cigar rollers hand-roll cigars.
Cuba Casino Night
St. Petersburg Museum of History, 335 2nd Ave. N.E., St. Pete. Aug. 27, 7 p.m. $50 advance; $60 door. 727-894-1052. spmoh.org.
This article appears in Aug 11-18, 2016.