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Cantagalo Elevator Opens March
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...
Violence: a Key Issue In Olympics Bid
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...
Salgueiro Samba
By Joshua Rapp Learn, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO - Every Saturday, Acadêmicos do Salgueiro throws a samba party, staging a run-off as associates compete...
Renting an Apartment in Rio
By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor
RIO DE JANEIRO - Finding an apartment can be difficult in any major city, whether it is a holiday rental...
Funk Gets Its Break
By Maíra Amorim, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO – In 2008, Rio's former deputy governor Álvaro Lins approved law 5.265 which established special rules for...
Plans to Close Help Continue
By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO - The fate of Copacabana's infamous Help club has been finalized. After the bulldozers have moved in,...
Back2Black Festival
By Sarah Coursey, Editor
RIO DE JANEIRO - The roots of Africa in Brazil run as deep as the country's settlement. The African culture...
Cuba Caught in a Time Warp
By Aaron Smith, Contributing Reporter
CUBA - “My mojito in La Bodeguita, my daiquiri in El Floridita,” was Hemingway’s famous quote about his two favorite...
Angra dos Reis and Paraty
By Nicholas Storey, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO - The Rio State coastline is affectionately known as the Costa Verde (Green Coast) for its lush,...
Rio Still in Olympic Countdown
By Juliana Tafur, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO – The entire world waits for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to decide which city will...
Smael Vagner – Carioca Graffiti Artist
By Sarah Coursey, Editor
RIO DE JANEIRO - It's easy to miss Smael. The 29-year-old graffiti artist could easily be mistaken for a college student,...
Urca: Small Town in Botafogo Bay
By Clarissa Butelli, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO - Urca is known by most tourists as the point of departure for the world-famous cable cars,...
Zona Norte – True Carioca Spirit
By Karen Shishiptorova, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO – Within Rio's vast urban sprawl of nearly half a million square miles, from beaches to mountains,...
Free Broadband Project Expanded
By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO - State Governor Sergio Cabral has announced the extension of the government-sponsored free internet project into traditionally...