Articles Tagged with: brazil

Hot, Red Hot!
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Hot, Red Hot!

When we got wind of the line-up for BAM’s Red Hot + Rio 2 show (December 4th and 5th in the huge, beautiful BAM Howard…

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CSS is Back (Again and Again)
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CSS is Back (Again and Again)

Seems like these brasileiras no se rinden. After running laps around the world, Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) is coming back to the America…again. It…

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All Points West This Weekend
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All Points West This Weekend

All Points West Music and Arts Festival, aka "Coachella East" will bring many left overs from Lollapalooza to New Jersey’s Liberty State Park this Friday,…

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Where the Mississippi and the Capibaribe Meet
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Where the Mississippi and the Capibaribe Meet

If someone asked you: “what does the South of the United States and the Northeast of Brazil have in common?,” most people (myself included) would…

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Brazil for Obama
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Brazil for Obama

Brasileiros are agreeing on one thing: Barack Obama is their man. He can jump through fire, he can win elections without raising so much as…

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Capoeira in NYC
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Capoeira in NYC

With handstands, headstands, and twirling kicks, the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira is one of the most challenging sports on earth—so a good teacher is a…

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Capoeira Hall of Fame
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Capoeira Hall of Fame

Back when capoeira mestre Paulo “Paulão Ceará” Sales Neto fell in love with the sport in the early ’70’s, his fellow Brazilians didn’t have much…

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Caaaah-na-vaaahl
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Caaaah-na-vaaahl

It’s Carnaval in Rio (and elsewhere), so we thought it would be a good time to resurrect this YouTube classic featuring California’s dear gobernador Aaah-nold. …

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Bonde Do Role
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Bonde Do Role

My first rock n’ roll experience was watching Guns and Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” on MTV at my babysitter’s house when I was in…

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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

I remember my first Copa del Mundo as a thinking human being.  It took place in Spain, and I was 9 years old — the…

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Santiago: Finale Allegro Imbalsamato
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Santiago: Finale Allegro Imbalsamato

The Salles family has two brothers well-known in the film industry. Walter directed The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and Central Station (1998) among others. João directed…

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<i>Circustancias</i> y <i>Penetrado O Meio</i>
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Circustancias y Penetrado O Meio

No entiendo porque la gente del festival  <b>La Cinema Fe</b> combinó estas dos pelis en un único bloque de tiempo. Supuestamente ambas formaban parte de…

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Quanto Vale ou é Por Quilo? (What is it Worth?)
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Quanto Vale ou é Por Quilo? (What is it Worth?)

When most Americans think about slavery, they usually think of racism and not the capitalist values that allowed the establishment of the system in the…

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Os Gemeos
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Os Gemeos

The art world is forever enmeshed in the debate of whether it is right to show graffiti art in galleries. While many a graffiti artist…

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