Rio de Janeiro

Brasil to Nix Live Earth Concert?

Delano Dishes Blue Plate Special

Tomorrow evening, February 5th, the Delano Hotel and its' new executive chef Maria Manso will debut the late-night brasserie Plat Bleu. With its' oversized tufted camelback sofas, etched mirror floor lamps, and Carrara marble-topped tables, the space is meant to evoke a 1940s French salon. The brass ... More >>

Dip It Lo

This DJ can certainly save your life.

Milton Nascimento and the Jobim Trio Revisit Bossa Nova Classics at the Arsht Center

Check them out Saturday night.

Coming up Rosy

A Brazilian chanteuse holds court in South Beach.

Diogo Brown

Daqui Pro Mondo (Golden Dome)

Tell Us a Tale

Daqui Pro Mondo (Golden Dome)

African Gangsta

Daqui Pro Mondo (Golden Dome)

Samba into Summer

Brilliant Brazilian dance, without the sauna effect

Claudio Roditi

Brilliant Brazilian dance, without the sauna effect

Samba School

In Moro No Brasil, a Finnish director travels to Rio to uncover the roots of its rhythm

After All These Years

Spiga’s blueprint for authenticity is still fresh and homemade

BEST LOUNGE ACT

Rose Max

Mime Corps

Rose Max

Bebel Gilberto

Bebel Gilberto (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees)

BEST BRAZILIAN INVASION

Cypo Café

Broken Wings

Brazilian superstar band Os Paralamas do Sucesso learn to rule the charts on four wheels

Feast of Film

The Miami International Film Festival, now over at Miami Dade College, turns yet another leaf

Brazil's Sweetest Sixteen

The Brazilian Film fest is fast becoming Miami's most colorful

BEST VOCALIST (FEMALE)

Rose Max

BEST DANCE PERFORMANCE

Lia Rodrigues Dance Company

Such Stuff As We Are Made Of

Bossa Nova, Momma

The Girl from Ipanema takes a walk down Miami Beach

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Girl from Ipanema takes a walk down Miami Beach

God Forsaken

The brutal, brilliant City of God takes us inside Rio de Janeiro's urban decay

Back to the Future

Most of this year's best won't be seen until next

Out of the Booth

Brazilian DJs don't let turntables tie them down

Samba Party at the Van Dyke with Rose Max on May 15

Rose Max is no stranger to the local music scene in Miami. She's kept busy since arriving in 1993, constantly performing and winning fans along the way. She's won the Brazilian Press Award three times (in '97, '98 and '01) for "Best Female Brazilian Singer Residing and Performing in the USA ... More >>

Let Your Samba Party

Rose Max is no stranger to the local music scene in Miami. She's kept busy since arriving in 1993, constantly performing and winning fans along the way. She's won the Brazilian Press Award three times (in '97, '98 and '01) for "Best Female Brazilian Singer Residing and Performing in the USA ... More >>

Country in the City

Rose Max is no stranger to the local music scene in Miami. She's kept busy since arriving in 1993, constantly performing and winning fans along the way. She's won the Brazilian Press Award three times (in '97, '98 and '01) for "Best Female Brazilian Singer Residing and Performing in the USA ... More >>

A Combo Supreme

Rose Max is no stranger to the local music scene in Miami. She's kept busy since arriving in 1993, constantly performing and winning fans along the way. She's won the Brazilian Press Award three times (in '97, '98 and '01) for "Best Female Brazilian Singer Residing and Performing in the USA ... More >>

Five Reasons the Olympics Will Never Come to Miami

Dave Landsberger Can we change all those rings to gold and stick a cigar in there?​Last week, Rio de Janeiro beat Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio and Miami share many things, including tourism, beaches, and lots of South Americans. But here are five reasons the Magic City coul ... More >>

Five reasons Miami will never host the Olympics

Dave Landsberger Can we change all those rings to gold and stick a cigar in there?​Last week, Rio de Janeiro beat Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio and Miami share many things, including tourism, beaches, and lots of South Americans. But here are five reasons the Magic City coul ... More >>

NY Times Declares Rio Beach More Miami-esque Than Miami

via Erikogan's Flickr/CC2.0NOT MIAMI!​Apparently Miami is no longer "Miami" enough to be the premier Miami-esque area in the world. Read between the lines of this New York Times travel piece, entitled "Rio Hot Spot With Miami Vibe," and you'll learn that   the Barra da Tijuca area in Brazil' ... More >>

Get Caipi-Crazy at Botequim Carioca

​Brazil is bad-ass. So much so, the world decided to name a total crotch-waxing process -- the Brazilian -- after the country's citizens. It's also the land that gave us Pelé and a thousand other soccer phenoms, Rio's O Cristo Redentor statue, Bob Burnquist, Bonde do Rolê, and sex celebrity Wate ... More >>

Marcelinho Da Lua and Erick Paredes at Champion Sound Brazil Edition Tonight

​Don't have the cash for a midweek trip to Rio? Well, no worries. Tonight Champion Sound and two big-time beat junkies are bringing a taste of Brazil's funk and fat asses to these subtropical shores. Jumping off at 10 p.m., the weekly hip-hop humpfest will host Marcelinho Da Lua and Erick Paredes ... More >>

Diogo Brown

​Don't have the cash for a midweek trip to Rio? Well, no worries. Tonight Champion Sound and two big-time beat junkies are bringing a taste of Brazil's funk and fat asses to these subtropical shores. Jumping off at 10 p.m., the weekly hip-hop humpfest will host Marcelinho Da Lua and Erick Paredes ... More >>

Tower of Babel

​Don't have the cash for a midweek trip to Rio? Well, no worries. Tonight Champion Sound and two big-time beat junkies are bringing a taste of Brazil's funk and fat asses to these subtropical shores. Jumping off at 10 p.m., the weekly hip-hop humpfest will host Marcelinho Da Lua and Erick Paredes ... More >>

Seu Jorge plays the Fillmore Miami Beach Friday

​Don't have the cash for a midweek trip to Rio? Well, no worries. Tonight Champion Sound and two big-time beat junkies are bringing a taste of Brazil's funk and fat asses to these subtropical shores. Jumping off at 10 p.m., the weekly hip-hop humpfest will host Marcelinho Da Lua and Erick Paredes ... More >>

Top Five Remixes by The Twelves, Spinning at Vagabond Saturday

Photo by Felipe FontecillaThe Twelves​Rio de Janeiro's the Twelves have been called Brazil's answer to Daft Punk. That assertion might be a little too far fetched, but there is no denying they are a talented duo both behind the decks and in the studio. As remixers, they instantly got everyone's at ... More >>

Tell Us a Tale

Photo by Felipe FontecillaThe Twelves​Rio de Janeiro's the Twelves have been called Brazil's answer to Daft Punk. That assertion might be a little too far fetched, but there is no denying they are a talented duo both behind the decks and in the studio. As remixers, they instantly got everyone's at ... More >>

Carnival of Flesh

Photo by Felipe FontecillaThe Twelves​Rio de Janeiro's the Twelves have been called Brazil's answer to Daft Punk. That assertion might be a little too far fetched, but there is no denying they are a talented duo both behind the decks and in the studio. As remixers, they instantly got everyone's at ... More >>

Blue Door Becomes Blue Door Fish

Blue Door Restaurant at The Delano will be morphing into Blue Door Fish come early next month. Claude Troisgros, the hotel's vaunted executive chef/consultant-from-afar (he lives in Rio de Janeiro), has conceived and composed the new menu, which has been a year in the works. The room has undergone a ... More >>

Tectonic Beats

Blue Door Restaurant at The Delano will be morphing into Blue Door Fish come early next month. Claude Troisgros, the hotel's vaunted executive chef/consultant-from-afar (he lives in Rio de Janeiro), has conceived and composed the new menu, which has been a year in the works. The room has undergone a ... More >>

Soca to Samba

Blue Door Restaurant at The Delano will be morphing into Blue Door Fish come early next month. Claude Troisgros, the hotel's vaunted executive chef/consultant-from-afar (he lives in Rio de Janeiro), has conceived and composed the new menu, which has been a year in the works. The room has undergone a ... More >>

Brazilian Rapper Marcelo D2 Rips Into the Fillmore Miami Beach July 22

​They say that music is the universal language. And it's a damned good thing. Because otherwise, you might miss out on Brazilian rapper Marcelo D2. Unless, of course, you happen to speak Portuguese. In any case, it'd be a shame if you missed the opportunity to be exposed to this hip-hopper's ste ... More >>

Marcelo D2 at the Fillmore Miami Beach July 22

​They say that music is the universal language. And it's a damned good thing. Because otherwise, you might miss out on Brazilian rapper Marcelo D2. Unless, of course, you happen to speak Portuguese. In any case, it'd be a shame if you missed the opportunity to be exposed to this hip-hopper's ste ... More >>

A Banana on a Penis? Is That Art? The Basel Food Weirdness Edition

All photos by Laine DossWarhol's Soup Can​The 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach runs through December 4. With more than 260 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa coming to showcase works by more than 2,000 artists, it's a pretty big deal. In fact, Art Ba ... More >>

Rio Acai Bowl Epidemic Strikes Apple A Day

​When a friend tipped me off about some acai concoction at Apple A Day that was selling at speeds that bordered on lunatic, I wondered whether I'd fallen back in time four years or so. That's when the real acai craze was in full swing, when people were buying $25 bottles of the juice, swearing it ... More >>

Graham Wood Drout Talks Tobacco Road History and His First Guitar

Graham Wood Drout, AKA Reverend Deadman.​When Graham Wood Drout and Iko Iko first started playing Tobacco Road in 1981, "the owner, an ex-cop named Neil, kept a shotgun behind the bar, couldn't get any strippers to work for the club, and hired us to play for Mariel refugees under a disco ball till ... More >>