Rock in Rio 2011 to Draw 315,000 Tourists
Joss Stone The City of Rio de Janeiro Tourism Secretary (RIOTUR) released a study on the economic impact of Rock in Rio in 2011, predicting 315,000 tourists will visit the city and spend R$653.6 million (about US$425 million) during the seven-day festival. In a statement the president of Riotur, Antonio Pedro Figueira de Mello, said, “Rock in More...
João Gilberto, Montreux Jazz Festival
By Roberto Muggiati João Gilberto João Gilberto is now 80 years old, but when I saw him at the Montreux Jazz Festival he was 54. He was at the height of his form, singing like never before. I watched him up close More...
Music on the Internet: Legal or Illegal?
By Alexander Burbello The habit of downloading music on the Internet has been growing year-by-year for several reasons, mainly due to the rapid and easy methods for obtaining a song and listening to it in different More...
The Great Piano Family
By Roberto Muggiati I met Lícia Lucas in London, in 1963. The last time we saw each other, I picked her up at the home of the English family with whom she was staying, near Richmond Park. On the way to a pub More...
Women Who Know Their Place
Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before USA involvement in the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands. She recently More...
A Night at the Opera
By Roberto Muggiati “The treasure has always been there/ It is not hidden/ But is only where certain people would look/ At all.” (from the liner notes of the album Treasure Island by Keith Jarrett.) For the More...
A Raisin in the Sun
The International Theatre Company is pleased to present a contemporary adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun. The original play takes place after World War II and is based on a black family’s More...
The Future of 3D Images
By Alexander Burbello Recently many people have fallen in love with the three-dimensional images in theaters that feel as if you are actually in the movie. But do you know how the 3D image is produced and how More...
Fines Is Fine
By Roberto Muggiati Bernard Fines Few people know it, but the chap is no stranger to Paraná. He participated in environmental projects in Guaraqueçaba and played guitar jam sessions in bars in Curitiba (Bar More...
Waters of January
By Roberto Muggiati “And the riverbank talks/of the waters of March/It’s the promise of life/in your heart, in your heart.” Sadly, the hopeful words of the song by Tom Jobim remain in the world of dreams. More...