I've been to the digital film festival Resfest before in the States and always look forward to it, so I'm blocking out the next three days when it stops here in Sao Paulo. The Brazilian version will include films that…
Continue Reading →If you love music magazines as much as I do, you already know how to appreciate a good rock photographer: it's the one who can get into places other than the back stage or trailer to show the adoring public…
Continue Reading →Tonight will mark an important time for video games in Brazil. Fifty-thousand dedicated gaming fans have voted for their favorite 2006 games, and the winners will be announced at the 3rd Annual Trofeu Gameworld event -- the largest of its…
Continue Reading →Late last week I had a chance to check out the two-week-old Tirana, a club in Sao Paulo's center district. As soon as I entered, I felt an instant wave of nostalgia hit when I reached the second-story venue. It…
Continue Reading →New York may be known as the city that never sleeps, but this weekend, Sao Paulo will truly own that heavyweight title. I'm going to need to do some serious caffeination this weekend to keep up with it all. First…
Continue Reading →Those of us used to navigating the concrete jungle in our cities know we've gotta be equipped with the right carry-all to get us through an entire day- sometimes, a backpack just isn't going to cut it when you've got…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo's equivalent to Kid Robot is Plastik, which houses a toy heaven for adults. Besides being ground zero for the toys we've come to adore and obsess over (plus a few more not known outside the country yet), the…
Continue Reading →Marco Monteiro in Sao Paulo pointed us to a clever guerilla campaign by environmental group 50 Graus that happened over the weekend in the city's popular Ibirapuera Park. The group "installed" ice sculptures of penguins on the grass to call…
Continue Reading →One of the newer, more young-spirited cultural spaces in Sao Paulo, Escola Sao Paulo fills a niche that's important to a city whose artists have been gaining more worldwide attention in the last few years. It's an informal school that…
Continue Reading →Just like everywhere else, corporate sponsorship in Sao Paulo isn't unusual when it comes to cultural events. But when you throw in the fact that they're often oil companies and major banks putting up a large part of the funds,…
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