27 de abril de 2026
What I like—and sometimes dislike—about my second calling in life, journalism, is that unlike my first calling, music, there is rarely a formal script or “score” telling you what to do or what you’ll see. […]
05 de janeiro de 2026
Brazilian and international critics have confidently predicted that Wagner Moura and The Secret Agent will be Oscar contenders in 2026. After watching Blue Moon, however — starring Ethan Hawke as Broadway lyricist Lorenz…
21 de novembro de 2025
This theatre lover is always interested in what is playing at Rio`s Teatro Poeira because two distinguished actresses of Brazil`s theatrical world, Marieta Severo and Andrea Beltrao, own and run this non-commercial but h…
03 de novembro de 2025
Guest columnist –Daniela Israel On a rainy afternoon in São Paulo, I found myself inside Vibra São Paulo among thousands of people who, for one day, chose to stop running and start listening.The event? Mind Summit 2025,…
20 de outubro de 2025
One of my five faithful Facebook readers asks if I was at the wonderful duo recital Saturday at Rio de Janeiro`s Municipal Theatre of British musicians–yes British of West African roots— of cellist Sheku Kanneh Mason,26,…
12 de outubro de 2025
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 sill…
06 de outubro de 2025
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…
18 de agosto de 2025
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 visito…
18 de agosto de 2025
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 `t…
07 de agosto de 2025
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 Bra…
28 de julho de 2025
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…
27 de julho de 2025
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 dif…
20 de junho de 2025
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…
20 de junho de 2025
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 s…
17 de junho de 2025
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 Ha…
