11:36 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| housing · Comments Off
7 Nov 2006
Sky-high property prices may make it impossible for most of us to buy a house in San Francisco or New York City, but for a mere $2.2 million you can get a whole Brazilian city. An abandoned one, yes, but one with 70 houses, a 22 room hotel, a grocery store and much more. It’s like playing dollies!
Located in Southeast Brazil, in the state of Minas Gerais, the ghost town has but one inhabitant: an engineer named Nilton Braz, who takes care of the place and is in charge of the sale, according to Spain’s 20 Minutos.
The city, built 35 years ago to house the workers on the Jaguará dam project has 70 houses, a 22-room hotel, a grocery store, a town square, a school, , tiene 70 casas, un hotel de 22 habitaciones, un supermercado, plaza, escuela, a church and paved streets…
The best part? It’s never been lived in.
According to 20 Minutos, there have been offers to buy the city from as far away as the U.S. and Germany.
Check out the town’s website: I think I even see some swimming pools in the photos.
Via / 20 Minutos
12:47 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Celebrities| Women| sex · 1 Comment
29 Sep 2006
Remember Xuxa? Yeah, that hot little number that all your anglo friends’ moms would turn off when you were watching “a kids show” on “the Spanish channel”. Her legendary sexy kids show has circled the globe, and has even been parodied by The Simpsons. Now, Xuxa’s coming clean about how she learned to be sexy:
Actress and singer Xuxa, who still reigns supreme in the world of children at 43 years of age, revealed in an interview the secrets that made her a sex symbol two decades ago, when she was still a virgin.A pencil helped make a pretty, innocent blonde with blue eyes, who still slept with a teddy bear into a femme fatale, according to Istoé Gente magazine.
She had never made love but was already considered a sex symbol. How could she show a face of desire if she had never done anything, Xuxa asked herself. Laughing, the “reina de los bajitos” remembers her first sessions as a model and when she got her director instructions from the: “Bite the pencil, Xuxa! Now imagine that the sun is in your eyes. Keep wrinkling your brow, with your eyes almost closed. Now suck on the air. That’s a face of desire!”
Yuck. What I find ironic is that Xuxa started her career as a porn star, in a movie in which she seduces a 13 year old, and someone thought it would be great idea to make her into a kids show idol.
Via / El Confidencial
2:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Celebrities| Features| Music| Raices| history · 1 Comment
31 Mar 2006
Raíces is a VL Friday feature saluting Latino music icons of days gone by.
I am not a musician, but as a different kind of artist, music is very important to me. The idea for Raíces comes from that; and the fact that I found that many of the Latino musicians that have most impacted my life are largely unknown by the US Latino population.
One of my most cherished artists is the late Elis Regina. An icon in Brazil, she is mostly known here in the United States because of her bossa nova recordings and collaborations with Antonio Carlos Jobim. This is unfortunate, because her range went way beyond bossa nova; indeed, some of her more inspiring music is much darker, with her voice giving life to the work of some of Brazil’s most talented poets, dealing with the topics of social complacency, politics, hopelessness and of course, love.
VivirLatino is a daily publication published by 2 Mujeres Media, dedicated to featuring all the latest politics, culture, entertainment of interest to the diverse and influential Latino and Latina community in the U.S.
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