Culture

In Rio, Cocaine with the Olympic Seal of Excellence

Rio Olympic Games scheduled to be opened in just a few days time is ...

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 ...

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. ...

Best-seller books, plays & movies

PLAYS Rio As Malandragens de Scapino — Molière’s comic classic about a deceitful servant. ...