Deep Brazil » São Paulo http://deepbrazil.com Way Beyond Carnival Tue, 25 May 2010 06:54:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Brazilian (Blog) Carnival http://deepbrazil.com/2010/05/14/brazilian-blog-carnival-2/ http://deepbrazil.com/2010/05/14/brazilian-blog-carnival-2/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 06:30:08 +0000 Regina http://deepbrazil.com/?p=2933

The blogosphere is full of really cool stuff about Brazil – if you know where to look for.

This is the first edition of the Brazilian Blog Carnival – the first of many, I hope. It will be a monthly event,  always on the second Friday of each month. Please, keep sending your suggestions.

Check these:

Masters of the [...]]]> http://deepbrazil.com/2010/05/14/brazilian-blog-carnival-2/feed/ 4 Life in Brazil costs an arm and a leg http://deepbrazil.com/2010/02/07/life-in-brazil-can-cost-an-arm-and-a-leg/ http://deepbrazil.com/2010/02/07/life-in-brazil-can-cost-an-arm-and-a-leg/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:23:24 +0000 Deep Brazil http://deepbrazil.com/?p=1448

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 to work mere 14 minutes to buy McDonald’s bestselling sandwich. The so-called Big Mac Index is only one of the instruments [...]]]> http://deepbrazil.com/2010/02/07/life-in-brazil-can-cost-an-arm-and-a-leg/feed/ 3 São Paulo, 456 candles http://deepbrazil.com/2010/01/25/sao-paulo-456-candles/ http://deepbrazil.com/2010/01/25/sao-paulo-456-candles/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:49:00 +0000 Deep Brazil http://deepbrazil.com/?p=1089 Favela do Moinho, a downtown shanty town

Happy anniversary, Sampa.

A few pictures to sum up the highs and lows of my hometown. Plus, images produced in 1929 by Rodolfo Lustig and Adalberto Kemeni, when São Paulo, then the coffee capital of the world, was transitioning into a huge industrial and financial hub. It was also [...]]]> http://deepbrazil.com/2010/01/25/sao-paulo-456-candles/feed/ 0