Surely if you’ve been here for a while, you’ve noticed the price of clothes rising constantly. When I first came here five years ago, tops, skirts and dresses were reasonably priced for the quality of …
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Title: arteBA
Location: La Rural
Description: Contemporary Art Fair – epicenter of Latin American art with guest appearances, lectures and of course, art art art.
I had completely written off last Sunday as a recovery day, having gotten in at 6:30 AM from a very entertaining Saturday night. Luckily, I have some good friends here that were not content with letting me lay on the couch all day in a position that would be considered much more embryonic than fetal. So when the phone rang at about 1:00PM, I was thinking about answering it with some choice words about parentage, followed by a scolding about how no one is awake at 1:00 PM on Sunday in Buenos Aires. Instead, I accepted the invite from Gina and Javier to what became one of the most special days I’ve spent here.
So last night I went to see the Buenos Aires Pecha Kucha Night ( Vol. 8 ) at the Konex Theater near the Abasto. To be honest, the majority of the presenters were creative and charismatic in person, however – lacked presentation skills. I will not dissect every single one, but the shame of it was that a good 80% of the presenters used this 6:40 minutes to self promote and hawk their goods. Certainly I shouldn’t have to PAY to be sold to!!
Olsen is the brain child of local German Maritegui – chef and owner of Casa Cruz and Olsen – the Argentine Norwegian restaurant located in Palermo Hollywood. As most restaurants are closed on Sunday afternoons, Olsen has a wonderful set menu (that’s ironically customizable) for Brunch. The international crowd that appears is stylish, however you’ll see that if you arrive late in the afternoon (3-5pm) they may be also be recovering from one of Buenos Aires’ infamous “nights out on the town”.
Filete or Fileteando are words used interchangeably to describe a porteño style of ornamentation on everyday objects. Towards the turn of the 20th century in Buenos Aires, there was a surge of immigrant workers to the young, cosmopolitan city nicknamed “The Paris of the South”. With new architectural and aesthetic styles filling the city – filete became a new aesthetic or ornamental style found on carts of local vegetable, milk and bread vendors.
Like the tango, filete was born out of the lower classes as part [...]
The other day, I had the great opportunity to meet up with some friends at Sarkis Armenian Restaurant in Villa Crespo for lunch. I had been there before and even ordered take away once or twice in the last few years here. One of my friends asked me to suggest a restaurant for lunch which always seems to pose a great challenge to me and I get stuck. But fortunately, out it came, off of the top of my head – Sarkis.
Tomorrow La Rural Exposition Center will open its doors for one of Buenos Aires most celebrated events – the International Book Fair. This year, the program includes several conferences, book signings and presentations, workshops, round table discussions, poetry, lots of activities for children and even a reading marathon dedicated to humor in Argentine literature.
“Let’s go see a PowerPoint Presentation” is probably one of the least common phrases muttered when discussing with friends what you’re going to do and where to go for an entertaining night out, however on Tuesday the 29th of April 2008, creatives, designers, architects and people hip to the scene will get together at the Konex Theater to watch 14 people present their PowerPoint Presentations and partake in the worldwide phenomenon of Pecha Kucha (pronounced ‘Peh-chak-cha’).
If you’re an expat living in Buenos Aires, sometimes those funny cravings can creep up on you when you least expect. Maybe it’s grandma’s oatmeal or chocolate chip cookies, some homemade brownies or nonna’s anise biscotti that you just can’t get out of your head.
As a society, Argentines love to have love affairs with everything from their television stars to the hottest new trends whether it be cell phones and ultra new gadget technology, clothing, food, hair styles or their cars. And they’re really good at keeping up with the latest and greatest trends and their consumption habits are amazing – really. But they’ve had a lot of practice. In 1911, Argentine businessman Torcuato di Tella decided to start the industrial machine company Siam di Tella.
