Monthly Archives: September 2009

By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - The opening of a sixty-meter elevator providing access to the Cantagalo and Pavão/Pavãozinho communities is to...

By Juliana Tafur, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – In the streets of Rio de Janeiro, he passes for a Carioca, but he is not....

By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - The official presentation of the Fifth Military World Games was held last Friday September 26, in...

By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - It has been a week of extraordinary theater in the run-up to the naming of the...

By Bruno de Nicola RIO DE JANEIRO - Samba school season is officially open. As the schools start preparing for their big week in February...

By Sarah Coursey, Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's francophone year continues to bring top cultural programs to the Marvelous City. The work of one...

By Doug Gray, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Filip Polc of Slovakia was the winner in a historic mountain bike race this weekend in...

By Maíra Amorim, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Despite the fact that Maria Rita is the daughter of Elis Regina, one of Brazil’s greatest...