These are some of the best posts published in April 2011.
Boimate – a fruit perfect for pasta sauce
20 best tips if you are visiting or moving to Brazil
Xote, Brazilian version of a Scottish/German dance
Cachaça labels: …
This series of images of film director Orson Welles partying (and working) in Rio, in 1942, were published by Life magazine and brought back to life by Portal Luis Nassif.
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A little aftertaste of Carnival: the Havaiana flipflops add currently on TV shows a lady criticizing a bunch of guys (including actor Marcos Palmeira) who are celebrating while the world is in crisis. Palmeira sighs …
Few export products are as successful as capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art that mixes dance and music in exquisite way. You can certainly find a good capoeira school near you, no matter if you are …
by Sylvia Estrella*
According to the United Nations, animal traffic is the third main illicit activity practiced in the planet, after drugs and weapons traffic. It is a 20-billion-dollar a year business and one tenth of …
Check these three short videos.
The first shows an ice-cream salesman in Praia do Futuro, a beach of Fortaleza, one of the main cities of the Northeast region (seen before on Eyes on Brazil).
The second is …
Brazil is mourning – well, those that have some musical memory are – the passing of Pena Branca. For almost five decades he partnered with his brother Xavantinho in a duo essential to the national …
Only two Brazilian writers made it internationally: Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of mystical parables, and Jorge Amado, the politically engaged storyteller that eviscerated the society of the state of Bahia.
Amado, who would be a 100 …
[UPDADE] – You have the option of seeing all the 100 images in only one post. Click here.
Enjoy this tour of 150 years of Brazilian history through photography and other iconography. Ten Fridays, ten pictures …
In 1945, the war was over in the Pacific and emperor Hiroito surrended to the Allies. But some Japanese that immigrated to Brazil were certain that their country had won the conflict and the news were …
You have mere 24 hours to explore São Paulo and no clue on how to squeeze the many options in such a small stay? The itineraries suggested by these guys can be a great inspiration:
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