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Delicious jam of Jorge Benjor and Arnaldo Antunes

January 27, 2012
culture  Delicious jam of Jorge Benjor and Arnaldo Antunes

Fernando Leszlo/ Promotional photo

Meeting of titans during the recording of Arnaldo Antunes’ DVD “Ao vivo lá em casa”.

This other video shows other artists that visited Antunes at home, including Erasmo Carlos and Demônios da Garoa. Really cool.

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The best of four editions of Rock in Rio, the world’s biggest rock festival

January 26, 2012

The city of Rio hosted four editions of Rock in Rio, the biggest rock and pop festival of the planet: in 1985, 1991, 2001 and four months ago. In between, four editions happened in Lisbon …

São Paulo in old postcards

January 25, 2012 2 Comments

Celebrating the 457th anniversary of my hometown, some images of a not-so-long-ago past.

Pastoril Profano – the spicy folk celebration of an old clown and several young shepards

January 24, 2012 2 Comments

Pastoril Profano is a Christmas folk celebration typical of the states of Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Alagoas, in the Northeast of the country. It is a metaphor of mortality, where the fight …

Vanguard architecture of the 40s-70s

January 24, 2012

The architecture proposed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Marcos Acayaba and Ruy Ohtake between the late 40s and the mid-seventies, in all its concrete and geometric glory, is portrayed in the photo book “Residências em …

The beauties of Jericoacoara

January 23, 2012 One Comment

by Julia Oeseburg, the Brazilian Guru
The village of Jericoacoara, located in the northern tip of the Ceará, is one of those “nature little secrets” that will blow you away from the minute you get there …

Good news: six out of ten Brazilians belong to the middle class

January 22, 2012

Three studies released this week indicate that there is a considerable upwards social movement going on in the country.
According to a poll conducted by daily Folha de S. Paulo:

90 million people – 6 out 10 …