10 brains you will love
Don’t miss this opportunity: great Brazilian artists, journalists, scientists, businessmen and philosophers speak their minds in the new TED conference series produced in São Paulo. […]
Month: April 2010
Brazilian Babel
by Sylvia Estrella* You may be under the impression – like most people – that Portuguese is the only language spoken in Brazil. In fact, […]
Brasília, half a century later
The most graphic city in the world becomes middle aged today. Fifty years later, Brasília’s curves, ramps, wide avenues and huge open spaces keep their freshness. […]
Beloved criminals
Brazilians have a somewhat disturbing tenderness for certain types of criminals. Let me drop some names that will prove my point: Meneghetti, Adhemar de Barros, […]
Singing in the flood
I simply couldn’t resist reproducing this video, published earlier by The Good Blood. In Rio, fun and joie de vivre come first:
King Roberto rules
Brazil is a monarchy ruled by a few kings. If you ask anyone on the streets, he/she will probably name three: soccer genius Pelé, Formula […]
Brazil and food, a love story
Ten dishes for your delight: Once upon a time, landowners used to invent dietary taboos to convince their slaves that they shouldn’t eat certain things. […]
The Brazilian king of Broadway
Paulo Szot has it all. The Brazilian baritone is starring “South Pacific”, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that returned to Broadway after half a century. […]
Vik Muniz in Wasteland
You may have heard of Vik Muniz, the highly successful New York-based Brazilian artist that experiments with all sorts of materials, from diamonds to chocolate, […]
I hate the Girl from Ipanema
Don’t get me wrong – deep inside I love Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes’s song. What’s not to love? The authors were absolutely brilliant […]