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Surf World Tour Hits Rio in 2011

by Robbie Blakeley, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The Association of Surfing Professionals (A.S.P) has revealed it will return to Rio next year for...

Simple Minds Back After Fifteen Years

By Sibel Tinar, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – The iconic pop-rock and new wave band of the 80's Simple Minds returns to Brazil this...

Love it or Loathe it: Life in Barra

By Oliver Bazely, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - A little over 100 years ago, Barra da Tijuca - the long, thin strip of beachfront...

It Can’t Happen Here

Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio’s major newspaper this week ran a front page picture featuring a Greenpeace activist wearing an oil-sludge-begrimed...

What R$700,000 Buys You in Rio

By Doug Gray, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Returning to our regular look at housing prices across different neighborhoods in Rio we offer...

Retalhos Cariocas-Favela High Fashion

By Felicity Clarke, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - You could say that Ipanema, with its beautiful daily parade of glossy beach glamor, is...

Favela Living: A Vidigal Viewpoint

By Oliver Bazely, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - For a foreigner in Rio, the search for accommodation is often concentrated on a select few...

Romanticizing Caribbean Cartagena

By Joshua Rapp Learn, Contributing Reporter CARTAGENA, COLUMBIA - From the lapping turquoise waves of the Caribbean rise centuries old ramparts erected to rebuke the...

Deeply Troubling

Editorial RIO DE JANEIRO - We've already spent some time covering the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and relating that to the...

Countdown to 2012 and 2016

Letter to the Editor Britain and Brazil and the Olympic ideal. We are excited. Why? Brazil and Britain have a special reason to mark 27...

Silence, Clubbing in Progress

By Sibel Tinar, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Ipanema nightclub Dama de Ferro holds a curious secret behind its iron doors every Thursday night....

Real Estate for the Super-Wealthy

By Oliver Bazely, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Are you fortunate enough to be reading this article from the wet-deck of your yacht, or...

Brazilians Dominate Rio Marathon

By Oliver Bazely, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANIERO - On Sunday, July 18th over 15,000 runners took to the streets of Rio, participating in the...

Unilever, Nestlé’s Rio Ice Cream Wars

By Felicity Clarke, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Two of the world's largest food corporations, Unilever and Nestlé, have been battling over the...

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