Brazilian music with English subtitles
Ever wondered what these songs are about? Aquarela do Brasil (Zé Carioca in “Saludos, Amigos”, the 1942 Disney movie) Gentileza (Marisa Monte), that makes reference […]
Month: January 2011
Unbelievable house/museum in São Paulo
Check this incredible slide show of ex-banker Edemar Cid Ferreira’s house. This museum-like palace hosts a mural painted by Sol LeWitt and works by Frank […]
Skating in Brazil
Brazil produced some world class skate boarders, such as Bob Burnquist, several times champion of the X-Games, the skate Olympics. In this interview to Juice […]
Prayer drive-thru
Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, a fast-growing native Brazilian Pentecostal church that is extremely popular, is inovating again. Last year, its founder, self-proclaimed bishop […]
Killer rain, once again
Once again, the flood washes up whole Brazilian communities. As I write this, the number of deaths in the state of Rio is over 540 […]
Presidents in stamps
Any philatelist can tell you that there is much more to stamps than meets the eye. This week Correios (the state-owned company responsible for the […]
Brazilian sleevefaces
Sleevefaces are pictures that depict people holding a vinyl record cover in front of their faces. They are getting popular on the Brazilian web. These […]
UFOs over Brazil
Brazil has its own Roswell – a widely documented episode in which hundreds of people declared they witnessed the presence of extraterrestrial aliens during a […]