Category Archives: Brazil
Parabéns to Carnival Winners Mocidade Alegre + Unidos da Tijuca!
The 2012 Carnival season in Brazil has ended with a couple of surprising samba school parade winners in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, both of which sported themes from the country’s culture-rich, rain-poor, poverty-stricken Northeast. Yesterday, Mocidade Alegre took … Continue reading
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It’s Carnival Time
WATCH CARNIVAL IN BRAZIL LIVE! LINKS BELOW. Yes, my good people, Carnival is this weekend in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and Salvador and Venice and New Orleans and Barranquilla and Trinidad and Port-au-Prince and Panama City and Santo … Continue reading
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Wading in the Waters of Iemanjá
In Brazil, February 2nd is dedicated in the Catholic tradition to Our Lady of Seafaring, a manifestation of the Virgin Mary who watches over sailors and fishermen. But the larger celebration isn’t of the Catholic saint, but of the Afro-Latin … Continue reading
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Happy 458th Birthday, São Paulo
São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, founded January 25, 1554. My favorite city on Earth. Please don’t forget to follow me on Twitter @FlyBrother, and “like” me on Facebook! You can subscribe, too!
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New Years Eve in Rio … and Around the World
It’s 2012, folk! While many of you spent New Years Eve in the frigid climes of Europe or North America, I was getting my hot-and-sweaty on in Rio de Janeiro. True, it rained most of the weekend, and the transport … Continue reading
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(Samba) School’s in Session
With just over a month left before Carnival, the samba schools are getting into the groove with twice-weekly practices in preparation for the main event – a 14-contestant competition of beads, beats, and booty-shaking to see whose themed samba presentation … Continue reading
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Random Stills From a Day in the Life of a Gringo Paulista
God, I love this city. (From whence I took the title of this post.) Please tweet your comments @FlyBrother, or email me (see About page). And don’t forget to “like” me on Facebook!
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Repping Time Out on the Telly
Last week, the good people over at TV Cultura, one of Brazil’s most respected public television networks, came to the Time Out São Paulo offices to see how we do things at the year-old local branch of the London-based entertainment … Continue reading
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Mr. Wonder Rocks Rio, Then and Now
1970 2011 See how everybody knows the lyrics? That’s Brazil. Please tweet your comments @FlyBrother, or email me (see About page). And don’t forget to “like” me on Facebook!
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