This week the Senate of Buenos Aires Province (the province around the capital, and yet separate from Buenos Aires city) has ratified a law imposing bans on those plastic shopping bags such as those used …

Tomorrow starts the 8th German Film Festival in Buenos Aires.  The German film industry is one of the largest in Europe and since the 90′s has seen a great resurgence with films reaching international acclaim …

If you were in Buenos Aires last weekend, you were probably outside enjoying the beautiful weather, the warm sun, parks full of happy parents, children and puppies, lovers walking hand in hand – the perfect …

On Thursday evening, I attended a great Portuguese class.  It was held at the South American Explorer’s clubhouse in San Telmo – a trek from my Palermo office and apartment, but well worth the trip.  …

Spring is springing in Buenos Aires!  Love is in the air, people are out on the streets, the air is fresh, my windows are open and my hay fever is in full form!  This past …

ok so first – a few things going on tonight…
Swayzak is promoting their new release, Some Other Country. You may know them from the ultra cool CD “Snowboarding in Argentina”. They’re playing tonight …

I just started getting into Mutations, a book that I bought a few weeks ago when I was in Chicago. Javier first found it in the library of the Architectural School at IIT and it was so fascinating that we ended up buying it elsewhere. It has various contributors, including modern architect Rem Koolhaas with the Harvard Project on the City, Stanford Kwitter and Saskia Sassen.

I browsed through this book for hours at first, looking at the photos and statistics and thinking about how everything in this book relates to everything I learned as an undergraduate student of Anthropology some years back.

One of the major things about traveling around Tokyo is the great distances that you need to cover to get from one district to the other. At first we were quite intimidated to use the Tokyo Metro mostly because we were so used to the Buenos Aires Subte with its 5 simple lines. We had seen the maps before arriving, but perhaps just hadn’t mentally prepared ourselves for trying to figure out how we were going to get to our hotel after 32 hours of travel from Buenos Aires. And to see in front of us a Metro map of all the lines going in every which direction and not a single map in Romanji (Japanese words spelled out using English letters), well, we became the typical confused tourists.

Just in case this rainy, cool weather has you wanting to curl up on your couch and do nothing but totally “veg out” this whole weekend – I have the perfect solution for you! If you’ve got cable, Channel TCM is presenting an homage to famed cinema director, Stanley Kubrick. It would have been 80th birthday this day, so starting at 16:30 on Saturday afternoon is a series of four of his best known films and a special documentary of his life. If you already have plans to go out, it’s definitely worth recording!

So if there’s anyone who has actually been following Buenos Aires Style, you may have noticed that this past month, I’ve had no new articles – this is not because I totally dropped off the face of the planet – I just dropped off of this SIDE of the planet – and ended up exactly on the other side – in Tokyo, Japan. So the next few articles will be some special editions of “Buenos Aires Style – in Tokyo”. Hope you enjoy!

We arrived on June 17 at the Narita Airport, had our fingerprints taken and upon arrival to the baggage claim, realized that my luggage that was supposed to go from Buenos Aires to Chicago to Tokyo took a detour to Dallas from Chicago and would not be arriving for two more days.