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Wish Upon a StarWish Upon a Star — Inca Stargazing in Peru
Michelle Jana Chan writes… Inca stargazing in Peru was unlike anything in the Western tradition. Rather than connecting bright stars into constellations, the Incas found meaning in the dark patches of the night sky — a snake’s head below the Southern Cross, a mother llama with her baby traced through the Milky Way. Even more
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Interview with Samba Dancer Laiza Bastos Vieira in Rio de Janeiro
Laiza Bastos Vieira is a professional samba dancer in Rio de Janeiro and choreographer for Mocidade Samba School’s comissão de frente. She shares what life is like performing at the iconic Sambódromo parade. How did you get into samba? Samba often runs in families. It did in mine. A great uncle of mine was one
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The Rio de Janeiro Food Scene — A Culinary Revival
The Rio de Janeiro food scene is having its moment. Long overshadowed by São Paulo’s immigrant-fuelled gastronomic diversity, Rio rested on its laurels as a city of stodgy bar snacks at hole-in-the-wall joints known as pé sujos — literally “dirty feet.” That’s changing fast. Recently, however, Brazil’s most beautiful city has been getting easier on
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How to Learn Samba Like a Malandro in Rio de Janeiro
Want to learn samba in Rio de Janeiro the authentic way? In a smart Ipanema dance studio, instructor Carla Campos demands chest up, hips firm, and no wriggling — because real samba is about dancing like a malandro, not a chicken. Ah, the malandro — the archetypal bad boy, the con artist, the ladies’ man, the hero
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