You have never seen Rio this way
Airpano, a Russian aerial panorama website, offers an amazing virtual helicopter tour over Rio and Iguaçú Falls (and also Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia, New York, […]
Month: March 2010
10 extraordinary Brazilian musicians you should listen to
by Eloisa Aquino* If you’ve had your share of Bossa Nova, if you feel that you already know all the Tropicália big shots well, if […]
Saints without a halo*
They were not canonized. They are controversial. There is even doubt if some of them really existed. Nevertheless, Brazilian popular saints generate deep devotion, pilgrimages […]
Scary Brazilian lullabies
Most Brazilian lullabies and children songs are scary like hell. Some of them are not exactly child-appropriate. Or human-appropriate. Check this hit parade: The big […]
Reborn Mutantes
Only two Brazilian rock bands really made it abroad. Heavy-metal Sepultura and psychedelic Os Mutantes. Os Mutantes’s success is peculiar in the fact that the […]
Niemeyer at 102
Oscar Niemeyer, the centenary Brazilian architect that gained world fame for his sculptural reinforced concrete buildings, is still producing in an almost compulsive rhythm. His […]