Branco brilhante, vermelho Pompéia, colunas, cúpulas e jardins secretos se exibem nas fascinantes villas de Capri, onde convidados famosos relaxam contemplando as estarrecedoras águas de um mar azul sobre o brilho extremo do Sol. Em nome da poesia ou da exaltada preguiça, as villas históricas … Read more »
“You can’t walk straight when the road bends”
Romani Proverb
It all started in New York City.
When a friend of mine from Brazil, a Tarot reader, reminded me while chatting on Skype that soon it would be the Gypsy festival, I searched nervously through … Read more »
This fall Marie Antoinette reigns supreme.
“All eyes will be fixed on you!” Empress Maria Theresa of Austria said to her teen and youngest daughter offered in marriage to France in order to cement an alliance between the divided countries.
200 years after her death the eyes … Read more »
It has been quite a week.
With Israel on the brink of an all-out war with Hezbollah, the bombings in Mumbai, and the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan, conflicts around the world seem to have experienced a sharp increase as of late. New York cultural landscape, people … Read more »
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The other day, a Sunday, I woke up in a very bad mood. While brushing my teeth, I hear the noise of drums on the streets. Still with the toothbrush and toothpaste mess in my mouth, I rush … Read more »
I have waited for the last six months the Body Temple event to take place in NY. Finally the weekend of heavy rains showed up together with the Body Temple at the Brooklyn Lyceum, formerly a 19-century gigantic bathhouse converted into a beautiful, raw theater … Read more »
One of the things I love doing as soon as I come to NY is to watch VH1, especially at Christmas time. Sounds very commercial but, believe me, it gives a flair of what people desire or dream of in the air during this cold … Read more »
“O God, save the queens
It’s our party and I’ll cheer
Now is the time, my love,
Perola Negra is here
The show will start.”
These are some of the lyrics of the song that the members of the School-of-Samba Perola Negra ( Black Pearl) are learning every Sunday evening … Read more »
Today I am exhausted! After the whole week of running on the treadmill, lifting weights, and doing some Urban Yoga, my muscles are aching like they never did. Every night I’ve being going out, and above all, I am starting to get either a cold … Read more »
Last Friday, a friend from Brazil asked me, through Skype, what was I doing up so late… It was one in the morning. I answered that the city was up celebrating Halloween on the streets, and that I was laying quietly in bed reading and … Read more »
