Peter Rosenwald
A resident of São Paulo for almost 20 years, New Yorker Peter Rosenwald combines careers as a marketing executive and journalist. Senior dance and music critic for 'The Wall Street Journal' for 17 years, his writing has also appeared in 'New York Magazine', 'The Guardian' and many other publications. He is the author of 'Accountable Marketing'.
GringoView: about time to discover Brazil’s rich folk art heritage
(Opinion) It's about time the artificial quality barrier that appears to exist between things foreign and Brazilian should be broken down.
What is foreign and...
GringoView: The last changing of the Old Guard
Queen Elizabeth died Thursday as she lived, quietly, and with royal dignity, a dignity that has characterized her more than 70 tumultuous years on...
GringoView: Bread and circuses
(Opinion) The late first-century Roman poet Juvenal is believed to have coined the exhortation ‘bread and circuses’ which provided a palliative distraction for the...
GringoView: Profile in Courage
August 16th may say a lot about the future of democracy in the United States.
It’s when Wyoming republicans will have to decide whether they...
GringoView: The other side of Big Bang
(Opinion) Just try to imagine a telescope the size of six large trucks (20.197m × 14.162 m) resting comfortably one million miles out in...
GringoView: The generational chasm between celebrity and quiet action
(Opinion) You can’t have failed to notice that celebrities get all the attention these days. Or that more and more, there is a growing...
Gringoview: Celebrating the fourth of July
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - How can I ever forget my childhood memories of the wonderfully optimistic celebrations of the 4th of July?
It was...
GringoView: What will we be watching?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) I finally admitted it to my parents.
On those winter days in 1951, I had faked illness so I...
GringoView: The run-away influence of influencers
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) I was recently dumbstruck by a ‘New York Times’ piece about a social-media-famous water bottle and its potpourri...
Opinion: Gringo view: The rich get richer
By Peter Rosenwald
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “The rich get richer, and the poor get babies” is an old saw always underpinned by an...
Gringo view: Made-for-TV reality
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) I have had a real problem during the past fortnight. I couldn’t decide which dystopian ‘spectacular’ to watch...
Gringo view: Have we been here before?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) You remember critically important moments from your childhood even if you didn't fully understand what was going on...
Gringo view: Paying attention
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) There is just no question that the technology that has made the smartphone ubiquitous has changed the world.
Whether...
Opinion: Gringo view: the Holocaust shadow
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - How is it that this year, for the first time that I can remember, the annual international 'Holocaust and...