Latin American B-boys will be battling it out for the title as the best breakdancer in the land tomorrow in Sao Paulo at Red Bull's BC One, which is throwing together 16 Brazilians and five others from Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela,…
Continue Reading →Rio de Janeiro's Supercordas has been getting lots of buzz here in Brazil, and the hype is for good reason, as I can't stop listening to this awesome five-member band. They call themselves a rock and roll group, but add…
Continue Reading →Yesterday kicked off the beginning of a holiday weekend here in Brazil. It also coincides with Sao Paulo's annual Gay Pride Parade happening on Sunday, the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. The theme this year is "For…
Continue Reading →It's something you have to see to believe: four famous Brazilian graffiti artists, Nunca and Nina Pandolfo and duo Os Gemeos have been working for the past few weeks on covering the medieval Scottish Kelburn Castle with their colorful, signature…
Continue Reading →Any artist who encourages me to take his/her art without having to exchange an amount equal to what I owe in student loans gets four stars in my lil' book of People I Want to Know Forever. Mulheres Barbadas are…
Continue Reading →Sustainable design is the focus of the 1st Annual Brasil Eco Show that runs from today until June 5 in Sao Paulo, which is bringing together architects, civil engineers, professors, members of Greenpeace and people usually involved in construction to…
Continue Reading →Fotonovelas, which are most easily explained as dramatic pulp-fiction tales akin to comic strips but with photos instead of drawings, have enjoyed brief success in the States, but many people internationally -- including Brazilians -- grew up reading (or should…
Continue Reading →Brazilian beer company Brahma is organizing a cultural exchange for its TrocaBrahma music festival, inviting popular U.K. artists to Brazil to collaborate with some the latter's indie and pop/rock groups. The sonic results are presented in a series of shows…
Continue Reading →I'm an enthusiastic user of Moleskine notebooks because they're high quality, but now that everyone and their mother has one now, I'm always getting paranoid about my roommates mistaking mine for theirs if I ever accidentally leave it laying around…
Continue Reading →Now that I'm finally settling into my digs here in Sao Paulo, I've been looking around for pieces to spruce up my place and unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), there's no IKEA here to help. But…
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