Carnival not in Rio

Many refer to Carnival in Brazil as the biggest outdoor theater of the world. It is actually much more, Carnival is show and business. One may measure a city's vitality in Brazil by its Carnival. One way...

BC - Before Carnival

People at "Unidos do Peruche" Samba School in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A moment while people are still getting ready for the rehearsal. Like four weeks to Carnival parades to start - Jan/2010. As it gets near people get...

2010 Brazilian Carnival - Gaviões da Fiel Samba School rehearsal

Canival is at hand, get ready! Scenes of the Sambodromo in São Paulo. Samba School Gaviões da Feel parades during the technical rehearsal for all Samba Schools of São Paulo. As you see the School passing you...

Brazil - 5 weeeks to Carnival

Samba Schools in Sao Paulo on the avenue. No, they are not displaced. It is only that the technical rehearsals have already started for them. This means Carnival 2010 is at hand. All Samba...

Samba Time in Tokyo: Brazilian Carnival in Asakusa on August 30

Can't make it to Rio but happen to be in Tokyo on August 30th, for an afternoon the Asakusa district comes alive with the annual Asakusa Samba Carnival and its sounds of Brazil... The festival started small in 1981 yet last year managed to attract half a million spectators...

CAETANO VELOSO AND THE MEANING OF EXILE

  PEDRO ALMODÓVAR REKINDLED DYING ART FORMS in his ncredible Talk to Her, a theatrical tour-de-force sprawled across a two-hour cinematic landscape. Reviving ballet, silent movies, and bullfighting, he gracefully shoved back instant-gratification culture’s impatient...

Samba School "Beija-FLor" wins 1st Place in Rio's Carnival

The carnival parade in Rio de Janeio, Brazil, puts the whole country to samba, in particular, samba schools, communities that prepare all year long for the next carnival.  Creativity, beauty, choreography...

Rio Round-up for Carnaval's Final Hours

"Revelers packed Rio de Janeiro's beaches and danced in streets littered with pieces of glittery costumes Tuesday, soaking up the final hours of merriment after the climax of the city's world-famous...

Samba in Miami

The Brazilian culture served as the theme for the Miami Art Museum’s “Jam at MAM” this Thursday, Feb. 15. “We do this to get our name out there,” said Angela Oxenburg, MAM’s membership manager....

Brazil's Carnival marred by tragic killings

Our own clorenz1 posted a great story on the wonders of Rio's Carnival this morning, and now two of the celebration's well-known samba dancers are murdered under suspicious circumstances. It points to increasing...

Shake it! Carnaval in Brazil

The time is upon us where those of us not in Brazil get to watch those in Brazil have an amazing time shaking it.  This year the party starts on the 17th and runs through the 20th.  I found a a couple of...

Samba share permissions simplified

Samba software, is a free, open source implementation of networking protocols to share files between UNIX/Linux and Windows computers. There are many ways to set permissions to your Samba shares and improve security. This article will cover some of the basic permissions and...

Howto Browse a Samba or windows share securely over Internet

You can browse Samba or windows share from Nautilus GUI file manager or command prompt using smbclient. But SSLBridge allows you to browse Samba/windows share over Internet using secure VPN connection. Users can access and manipulate files over the internet using...

Inside Brazil%u2019s World Cup Carnival

"I’m standing in the middle of about 75 Brazil football fans and all of them are moving their hips in a way that seems anatomically impossible to my body. Try as I might, the samba beat is not inside me so I resort to my rhythmically-challenged dance moves that I have been...

Samba Beats the London Marathon!

The Samba Beats spurred on the runners past Canary Wharf Tube Station

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