Friends in downtown Bariloche is a festive eatery that serves up decent, if slightly greasy, Argentine food 24 hours a day. Here you’ll find the classics — pasta, pizza, hamburgers and some European fare such as goulash and spatzle at reasonable prices. The thick-crust pizza is a filling diversion from the normal Argentine thin-crusted pie. […]
Archives for June 2011
Porteño Corner: Translator and Painter, Malu Canton
Malu Canton Translator/painter Age: ‘Very old’ Lives: Palermo Soho • It’s a big debate among residents of Palermo. Do you refer to your neighborhood as ‘Palermo Soho’ or ‘Palermo Viejo’? I prefer ‘Palermo Viejo.’ Now they have all sorts of names — Palermo Soho, […]
Ciudad Emergente: Buenos Aires’ Underground Culture Festival
Ciudad Emergente (Emerging City), a festival dedicated to underground art and music, is quickly becoming one of Buenos Aires’ most anticipated yearly events for teens and 20-somethings. Since 2008 the city’s culture department has hosted this free festival to promote youth culture and explore new trends emerging in the world of music, film, art, dance, […]
Ciudad Emergente 2011
The Buenos Aires winter festival Ciudad Emergente’s 4th edition will take place this Thursday, June 17th through Monday the 20th. This year the annual celebration of underground culture has a Parisian flavor with invited artists from the European city that has long-inspired Buenos Aires. The festival is set in the expansive Recoleta Cultural Center, […]
Crazy Fist: The Life and Tragedies of Boxer Carlos Monzón
I made the whole world talk, their hearts beat. I made them see that everybody has blood. –Leon Gieco, Puño Loco The exemplar of calculated aggression in the boxing ring, Carlos Monzón was at times a blazing, uncontrollable menace out of it. He was Argentina’s über-celebrity of the 1970’s. He dated the most famous movie […]
