Culture
Olympics: Out of the Bottle, the Genie of Fear Is Loose on the Streets of Rio
The Olympics remains a black hole of needless expenditure, sucking services into it with ...
Recife’s Teatro de Santa Isabel Fans Festival Fervor
One of the most noteworthy examples of neoclassical architecture in Brazil, the Teatro de ...
Brecht’s Legacy Lives on Brazilian Stage, Movies and Beyond
The significance of Bertolt Brecht’s groundbreaking theories from the twenties and thirties on the ...
2006, the Year MPB Found a Public Beyond the Brazilian Circuit
2006 was a very positive year for Brazilian musicians and the MPB (Brazilian Popular ...
Brazil’s Northeast Is a Big Open-Air Forró Party
Noise pollution laws don’t exist in the northeast of Brazil. Beginning every night at ...
Chico of Brazil: The World Has Been Touched by His Magic Words and Songs
Chico Buarque de Hollanda was born in Rio, but spent part of his childhood ...
Best-seller books, plays & movies
PLAYS Rio O Burguês Ridículo (Ridiculous Bourgeois) — Adapted from a Molière’s ...
The Stone Raft is the good old José Saramago
Saramago’s style is a cross between the late Thomas Bernhard and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...
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PLAYS Rio As Malandragens de Scapino — Molière’s comic classic about a deceitful servant. ...
Best-seller books, plays & movies
PLAYS Alô? Madame!… — It all starts when two friends get a phone ...
