Archive for the ‘Brazil’ Category
Viviane Castro Ain’t Got Nothing on Dani Sperle
9:37 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Brazil| Culture| Women| sex · Comments Off
24 Feb 2009Ayer, la Macha showed you how Obama made it to the Brazilian carnival via Viviane Castro’s pierna. Pero Viviane Castro isn’t the nude carnival queen anymore. That title now goes to Ms. Dani Sperle, who wore a samba outfit that covered 1.2 inches of her body. You can imagine what part of her body or you can see this NSFW picture.
Pero lest you think that it’s a free for all down in Rio or Salvador de Bahia, last year Viviane Castro’s samba group was penalized for nudity.
Black History Month: Race and Racism in Brazil
7:11 am By Maegan La Mala · Brazil| Culture| Latin America| race| society · Comments Off
10 Feb 2009In honor of Black History Month, are a couple more videos focusing on an element of Afro-Latino culture. This time we focus on the plight of blacks in Brazil, and the reality of a nation that on the surface appears to be colorblind, but where the legacy of slavery remains.
The first video, from Al Jazeera, focuses on the hardships still faced by black Brazilians in Bahía. The second, from PBS, follows university students attempting to “qualify as black” in order to gain access to university in Brasilia.
Enjoy!
Via / Al Jazeera
Monday Morning Musica : Viva Brazil
9 Feb 2009
There’s some controversy as to which groundhog we should trust. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, meaning 6 more weeks of winter and the Staten Island, NYC groundhog didn’t see his shadow, meaning an early spring. One way to heat things up is with some musica from Brazil.
Gracias a Viva Brazil you can get that cuerpo moving with some funky musica for you culito. A weekly radio show from Viva Radio, it features tropicalia, samba soul, funk, bossa, and popular music from our Portuguese speaking hermanos.
Via / The Republica Update
More Martes Musica: Zeca Baleiro’s Bandeira
27 Jan 2009It’s been too long since there’s been some Brazilian sounds on VL, so to lighten up your Tuesday afternoon, I give you a tune you’re bound to love (though the video could be more compelling): Bandeira by Zeca Baleiro. Lyrics in Portuguese after the jump (beautiful!)
Brazillian Soccer Team to Go on Viagra
10:40 am By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro| Brazil| Drugs| Sports · Comments Off
14 Jan 2009You’ve heard of athletes using steroids to soup up their game, but what about Viagra? Well one Brazilian soccer team is about to get a prescription for the wonder drug, allegedly to help them fight the effects of altitude sickness. Yeah…
The possibility was admitted by the club’s doctor in the city of Porto Alegre, Alarico Endres, who has been studying if the blue pill might help oxygenization of the blood in athletes and help reduce the effects of altitude.According to Endres, some specialists believe that the remedy used by men with erectile problems can benefit athleses who need better blood oxygenization in adverse conditions.
“Based on assumptions we won’t do anything, but if research shows scientifically that Viagra improves performance in [high] altitude, we can offer it to players,” said Endres.
I don’t want to think about the atmosphere in the locker room after one of these “altitude” treatments. Look what happens in the commercial when only ONE person is on the stuff!
Via / 20 Minutos
Brazil to Pay for Sex Changes for its Citizens
4:25 pm By Maegan La Mala · Brazil| GLBT| Latin America| society · Comments Off
21 Aug 2008
A major move in the right direction in Brazil with regard to trans rights: the government has decreed that it will subsidize all gender reassignment procedures for its citizens:
The decree was published in the official bulletin and recognizes sex changes as a “right”, as was defined in a 2007 decision which the government denied a reversal, in spite of protests by conservative and religious groups.
The only requirements for the subsidized procedure is that the patient be over 21, and have undergone 2 years of psychological evaluation, which means that the first procedures will not take place until 2010.
Spain’s 20 Minutos reports that the Brazilian Health Ministry projects that without the economic barrier, the procedure might be requested by one out of every 10,000 Brazilians.
Via / 20 Minutos
The Myth of What is Lost or Discovered
7:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Media| Peru| Politics · Comments Off
24 Jun 2008
When the story about the “lost Amazon tribe” or the newly “discovered tribe” hit the news, complete with deeply painted bodies pointing arrows threateningly up into a camera lens, I shook my head. The media ran with it and the people ate it up. The idea that people who already existed could be discovered only when mainstream, Euro-North American media found them, wasn’t anything new, but that didn’t make it any less disturbing. Now the news is that the whole thing was a hoax. But even the context of this “outing” of reality is filled with distortions and stereotypes ranging from the typical noble savage to appropriation of people’s very presence.
Sergio Mendes Encanto Out Today
1:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Music · Comments Off
10 Jun 2008
Today, Concord Records and Starbucks Entertainment released Encanto (Enchantment), the newest record from the legendary Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes. Encanto is the follow-up to 2006’s highly acclaimed collaboration with will.i.am called Timeless. On Encanto, Sergio takes us even deeper into Brazil , recording all the basic tracks in Rio and Bahia . Mendes enlists several guest musicians from all over the world including Latin superstar Juanes from Colombia, multi-talented Carlinhos Brown and Vanessa da Mata from Brazil, and Italian rapper Jovanotti, as well as American stars like Fergie, Ledisi, Natalie Cole, Herb Alpert and his wife, original Brasil ’66 singer, Lani Hall.
To watch the video for Funky Bahia off the album click here.
Summer Musica 2008 : Sonantes
2:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Music · Comments Off
20 May 2008
I was marveling that next week is the unofficial start of summer (it doesn’t feel like it yet). With the summer comes new, good musica to listen to at the beach, pool, or bbq. Today Six Degrees Records released the debut album Sonantes. This year Brazil celebrates 50 years of bossa nova and the debut album of this Såo Paolo musical collective features some of the newer well known voices of the genre like Céu The album was recorded not in a traditional studio setting, but rather mostly at home and the entire 10 track cd overall is sexy, in a moody languorous way, one that reminds me of sitting with a caipiriña, thinking of a lost love or plotting my next conquest.
It’s a low key album that doesn’t scream “listen to me” but rather serves as the perfect soundtrack for lazy summer days and nights. Some of the songs like, Miopia and Toque de Coito featuring Siba, sound sad, as if full of longing, even with it’s electric guitar and synthesizer sounds.
One of the most fun tracks on the album is Mambobit, which is “poppy” and nostalgic and I dare you to try and not move with Quilombo Te Espera.
Start your summer 2008 playlist with Sonantes.
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