04 de junho de 2023
Rio de Janeiro—The Chairman of the World´s 50 Best Restaurants, Britain´s Charles Reed, of Redhill, announced Wednesday morning with Rio de Janeiro´s mayor Eduardo Paes that Brazil will host on 28 November for the first…
14 de maio de 2023
“I discovered the joy of being another person and for this reason it is easier to confront the reality of our own life. If I wasn’t an actor, I would live depressed and have difficulties to overcome personal crisises,” G…
26 de abril de 2023
One of the most intriguing “comedies” (?) this theatergoer has ever experienced is currently playing in Rio de Janeiro until 30 JULY after a long tour which has taken it from Sao Paulo to Portugal to the United States an…
20 de abril de 2023
With the Covid-19 pandemic finally going away(?) , Rio de Janeiro ´s closest equivalent to Broadway or London´s East End theatre district, the Gavea shopping center with its four theaters is once again glowing and thrivi…
03 de abril de 2023
Dear Frida Kahlo (wherever you are): Today is Thursday,23 March 23, 2023, or four days after I was in Sao Paulo attending and hypnotized by a fascinating exhibition in your honor. You are/were a great Mexican artist; you…
05 de março de 2023
Put together Brazil’ s answer to St.Tropez,or Buzios( “conchas”) with this nation’s top crooner, Roberto Carlos,81, and you have sheer magic! That’ s what this observer experienced Friday evening 173 kilometers from Rio…
20 de novembro de 2022
Rio de Janeiro—There are some wonderful Cariocas, or local characters, who may have passed away but continue to live on immortally! Brazil´s 20th century Moliere, playwright, actor, director and drama teacher Joao Bethco…
18 de outubro de 2022
Dear Vivian in Canada, Rabbi Ken in California and others who told me “Don´t go to Vienna because you will only meet antisemitism in that city.”I have just returned from the most wonderful eight days of my life, visiting…
06 de outubro de 2022
Tips for old-fogie travelers from another old-fogie who has just returned from his first trip abroad after a thirteen years abstinence!(1)Window seats on airplanes are wonderful but perhaps not the best for old- fogies w…
20 de setembro de 2022
It is another cold, rainy day in what used to be tropical Rio de Janeiro.As I head for the ICS (Institute for Climate and Society) in Humaita (Rua General Dionisio 14), I am wearing a vest, long-sleeved shirt and a hoodi…
27 de junho de 2022
It has been thirty five years(!) since I performed oboe recitals in Mumbai and Poona and a mob tried to lynch our taxi in Delhi, India yet this wondrous, magical and dystopian culture continually returns to haunt me.And…
22 de fevereiro de 2022
Your correspondent is one of the most reluctant persons to leave home.For prior to arriving in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s (!),I had resided in various parts of the world and know only too well the tears and anguish invo…
20 de fevereiro de 2022
(Chapter I?) Due to this modern miracle called Facebook we never seem to lose people from our past.So as I write this among my five or six readers are people who attended my “farewell” party when I departed New York City…
