A Good Laugh but Not (who really cares?) a great movie: ‘Hotel Amor’
Contrasting styles, subjects and humors(humours) are among the advantages of attending an international film festival. As a resident of Rio de Janeiro where local cinemas currently feature some of the most banal and silliest Hollywood imports, this movie lover is taking advantage of Rio`s International Film Festival—which ends today—to view other foreign imports. Having never […]
ARY, a film by Andre Weller
Where are musical geniuses produced? Not necessarily or exclusively at New York City’s famous Juilliard School of Music or on the streets of Vienna near the homes of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Strauss and other musical immortals! The composer of what has almost become Brazil`s equivalent of its national anthem, `Watercolor of Brazil` (Aquarela do Brasil) […]
Second Day at Rio Convention Week-Renowned `Stubborn` Brazilian choreographer Deborah and Author`s Rights in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
Anyone who has spent enough time in Brazil will agree with this observer that there are ` certain` coincidences which only occur in this part of the world. Rio Convention Week is chock full of events and with more visitors than one would ever imagine but somehow this observer managed without planning to end up […]
Wednesday 13 August at Rio Innovation Week—Regenerative Fashion, Artificial Intelligence and CyberPunk
If French futurist and science fiction writer Jules (1828-1905, `20,000 Leagues Under the Sea`) Verne could attend Rio Innovation Week 2025 at Pier Maua, downtown Rio de Janeiro, he would feel right at home. Billed as `the biggest conference on technology and innovation, ` even a superficial visit to the annual convention– which ends this […]
FLIP`s Twenty-third literature festival in Paraty, Brazil
The 23rd edition of the Paraty International Festival of Literature (FLIP) which concluded on Sunday 3 August 2025 displayed –-at least to this veteran of four FLIPs—current tendencies of contemporary writing both in Brazil and abroad and an emphasis on feminism. Having attended the recent Biennale Book fair in Rio de Janeiro, this observer noted […]
Rio de Janeiro’ s Cafe Valley: More than coffee beans
Located in Rio de Janeiro state, “Coffee Valley” or” O Vale do Café,” has morethan coffee beans but a rich, colorful culture including back- to- nature healing clinics, an annual music festival, a variety of health food products and a mini zoological answer to Disneyland among other treats to offer a visitor.There are an estimated […]
The Living Legacy of Nise da Silveira at the VII Seminar on Image Reading:Echoes of Jung in the Workshops of the Unconscious
by Susie Verde On 25 and 26 July 2025, the beautiful Rio de Janeiro Art Museum (MAR) hosted the VII Seminar on Image Reading: The “Epistemology of Nise da Silveira,” bringing together mental health professionals from different regions of Brazil in an aesthetic, clinical and deeply human experience. The seminar featured high-level presentations during which […]
‘I Dreamt About You´: Brazilian play reveals a promising playwright
Whom have you ever dreamt of being? A movie or TV soap opera star, a handsome or beautiful being, a film director or famous cinema maker or someone living a more adventuresome and glamorous than yourself? This is one of the themes touched on in an excellent duo performance by veteran actress -playwright-director Carioca (Sao […]
“Tropical Trench” Ruy Castro´s latest book and a second visit to Rio´s Book Biennale
Despite the former site of the 2016 Summer Olympic games in Rio being so far from my residence here in Copacabana, this bookworm decided to return to the Rio Biennale on what I imagined would be a quiet Tuesday. At the suggestion of another literature lover, I avoided a taxi and took the Metro from […]
My Favorite Writer: Nigerian-American Adichie visits Brazil
Despite the fact that I grew up reading, admiring and loving Anglo-Saxon or American writers like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Phillip Roth, Saul Bellow,and Britain’ s Graham Greene, and American journalists Pete Hamill Jimmy Breslin, she, a Nigerian-American is my favorite writer today. She writes just as well (or better) than the above icons and […]