By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Cidade Maravilhosa is a place known for the cultural and ethnic diversity of its people, and the music varies and blends as much as the inhabitants themselves. Leo Justi, Apollo, and Dorgas are a part of a new batch of homegrown artists who are [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Early on the morning of Sunday, May 19th, over eight thousand registered runners will take part in the Corrida da Ponte (The Bridge Run), a 21.4 km half marathon across the famous bridge known as the Ponte Rio-Niterói, which connects the cities of Rio de [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With her remake of Dione Warwick’s “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” playing almost nightly in the Globo novela (prime-time soap opera) “Salve Jorge” and a recent confirmation to perform at Rock in Rio 2013 in September, it’s been quite a year for singer and [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Performing under the stage name Cat Power as she has for almost two decades, American singer-songwriter Chan Marshall returns to Rio with a new sound and a new look on Saturday, May 18th. She will play at Lapa’s Circo Voador where she last performed almost [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Australian surfer Tyler Wright beat fellow Australian and last year’s defending Rio women’s event champion, Sally Fitzgibbons, to take home the Colgate Plax Girls Rio Pro 2013 victory on Saturday, May 11th in Barra da Tijuca. “This feels pretty good,” Wright told the Association of [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Award-winning British musician Samuel J Tellam (Samuel J) will bring his special blend of smooth laid-back sounds to the Barra da Tijuca beach during the Billabong Rio Pro 2013 on Sunday, May 12th, as he performs the first of two shows that are scheduled to [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Tonight is the night that The Rio Times presents The Rio DJ Mixup, a one of a kind DJ Industry meets community celebration of nightlife in Rio. Over 200 people have already RSVP’d for what promises to be an evening of DJs, promoters, venue owners [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Beginning today (Wednesday, May 8th) the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) returns to Rio for the Brazilian leg of the World Championship Tour. For the third consecutive year it will bring the world’s top professional surfers to compete in the waves off of Barra da [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil, like the United States and many other countries throughout the world, celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May. Dia das Mães, as the day is known here, will occur this year on May 12th and families, retailers and restaurants have already begun [...]
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As the number of bicycles on Rio’s streets continue to increase, so do the number of reported accidents. To insure greater safety for cyclists in training, lanes in Aterro do Flamengo will replace the lanes currently used in Ipanema and Leblon for early morning riding. [...]
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