Articles tagged with: Rio
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, Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, among many others). You may want …
Gorgeous Rio Carnival
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 …
Life in Brazil costs an arm and a leg
A worker that earns the average Brazilian salary would need to work 40 minutes in São Paulo and 51 minutes in Rio to buy a Big Mac. In contrast, an average New Yorker would have …
Rio Fashion Week
The winter collections shown in this 16th edition of the Rio Fashion Week are, well, not particularly carioca (the city’s demonym). The 27 designers that participate in the event are in a very sober mood. …
José Padilha, the hottest documentarist around
Keep your eyes on José Padilha, the director whose movies dissect the social mechanisms that perpetuate violence and poverty. His latest work, “Garapa” (the sugar cane juice used to conceal hunger when one has nothing else …
