Famous French Chef Comes to Curitiba
Michelin-starred French chef Alain Burnel will come to Curitiba next week to cook dinner on three separate evenings at the Restaurant Durski. The menus with wine pairings will be especially prepared by the chef on May 7, 8, and 9. French Chef Alain Burnel World-renowned chef Alain Burnel began at the age of 14 as an apprentice baker. Later More...
Code to Joy
Our American friend, John Mann, has co-authored a book on happiness. The book describes the struggles of many Americans to be happy and the obstacles that prevent happiness in a stressful culture that More...
Disc Golf
By Terry Caesar Brazilians may have never heard of this sport, but most Americans, like me, have some knowledge of disc golf—if they have any at all—through throwing a frisbee. But most people, unlike More...
Barbosa and Prieto Win Master’s Title of Curitiba
The first stage of the Itaú Masters Tour has come to an end at the Graciosa Country Club in Curitiba. The country’s biggest doubles event brought several generations of tennis idols to the competition. Names More...
Surprise: Stem Cells in your Teeth!
By Marc Breyer Perhaps you have never heard of this, but stem cells can be found in your teeth. I never knew this either until I began translating Dr. Moira Pedroso Leão’s abstracts of two articles she wrote More...
Barrichello goes Indy
At the Sonoma race track in California last Saturday, every time the yellow and green car entered the track, some 1,500 fans watching the Indy training session applauded. The scene, repeated throughout the More...
Brazilian Soccer Survives Transfer Period
The season’s first transfer period ended yesterday without causing the usual damage to Brazilian teams. Although first division teams sold (and lent) more players than they hired, it is clear that the teams More...
His Formula-One Days are not Over
If there was any hope for Rubens Barrichello, 39, it ended yesterday on the F-1 circuit with the announcement that the Indian driver, Narain Karthikeyan, would occupy the last unclaimed cockpit in the category. More...
Anxiety and Hope
By B. Michael Rubin I am an American, which means by definition I am anxious. Twenty percent of Americans suffer from chronic anxiety. There have been thousands of books written about anxiety and its causes and More...
Change Isn’t Easy
By B. Michael Rubin Is Brazil ready for the 21st century? Big changes are coming from every direction – from the country’s first female president, to Brazil becoming one of the world’s largest oil More...