2016-03-19 18:53
Miramar. San Juan, Av. 1999. Ciudad de Buenos Aires Tel: 4304-4261Doubling as a cornerstore and restaurant, Miramar is a classic bodegón in the neighborhood of San Cristóbal. T… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Buenos Aires boasts of more theaters than New York, the newspaper Clarín reported about a year ago. Whether or not this statistic is true is uninteresting; why it Clarín feels… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
A few weeks ago, I was driving Route 40 with an alternative energy wunderkind and one of the world’s leading experts on clams.Route 40 is the longest highway in Argentina, traversing s… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
"For my next experiment ladies and gentleman, I would appreciate the loan of any small personal object form your pocket. A key, box of matches, a coin - ah, key it is, good sir. Hold it up 1… Read More
2006-09-14 18:19
Lines not written in Buenos Aires:"I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough." Read More
2006-09-09 00:05
If you're in town...Casandra is like a cool, Argentine version of Ute Lemper Read More
2006-08-22 15:31
The pedestrian street Florida is the ideal place to find leather jackets, cashmere sweaters, and spectacular mullets Read More
2006-07-27 22:39
This afternoon, as usual, I was reading in the least fashionable café in all of Palermo, the Pingüino de Palermo. Several tables away from me, two men were having a conversation… Read More
2006-07-20 16:35
I have two of these things on my feet as I write.Designed and handmade by Ramón Belaustegui, a contertuliano of Viernes Santamarina.I dig.http://www.rauchzapatos.com.ar Read More
2006-07-18 20:48
Recently I went with some friends to El Beso, a milonga on the corner of Riobamba and Corrientes. Coincidentally, it was the first milonga I ever set foot in, as I mentioned in an earlier e… Read More
2006-07-12 21:17
As reported on the blog GoodAirs last week, the Argentine press seems to be “toothless” when it comes to the policies of President Kirchner. They lists a number of examples where… Read More
2006-05-18 14:50
Quilombo is word I try to use whenever in impolite company. It is somewhat less delicate than “a mess,” but just as common; perhaps a touch gentler than “a shitstorm,&rdquo&hell…Read More
2006-05-16 14:36
I just read Larry Rohter’s travel piece on Borges’s Buenos Aires, which was published yesterday in The New York Times. It is of course impossible to mention in a 2000 word articl… Read More
2006-05-16 00:15
Proust, that famous vago, said it best:"Je ne regardais en somme tout cela avec plaisir que parce que je me disais : « C'est joli d'avoir tant de verdure dans la fenêtre de ma ch… Read More
2006-05-10 19:07
Sensible Argentines and guidebooks alike tell you that you should never, nevereverever, watch an Argentine soccer game from the tribuna popular – the section of the stadium where the b… Read More
2006-05-02 21:57
Pedaling through Recoleta, I saw a man move his way slowly down the street, surrounded by a pack of domesticated dogs.Immediately I hopped off my bike and snapped a couple of pictures. Final… Read More
2006-05-01 18:00
Diego Armando Maradona has become a deity in Argentine culture for his left foot, which finds its way into his mouth as much as against a No. 5 soccer ball.Diego recently appeared in a telev… Read More
2006-04-26 22:06
Il Matterello. Martín Rodríguez 517 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Tel: 4307-0529My folks returned to the States the other day, though not before we shared yet another exceptional m… Read More
2006-04-22 12:10
Photo taken in Café La Biela, Recoleta. My mother smiles broadly, while I, in response to my father's stern admonishment, am saying, "pero, viejo, ¡dejate de joder!" Read More
2006-04-22 03:36
Argentines are an infectiously passionate people, who love to exaggerate and make extravagant hand gestures. Not only has my bookish, Berlitz Spanish acquired some of the swagger and grit of… Read More
2006-04-21 19:23
La Cabrera. Cabrera 5099 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Tel: 4831-7002La Cabrera Norte. Cabrera 5127 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Tel: 4832-5754When I find myself in one of those tiresome conversati… Read More
2006-04-12 15:57
A few weeks ago I went to the Academia Nacional de la Historia, where I spent the afternoon reading articles from 1837-38 published in El Diario de la Tarde. The advertisements proved to be… Read More
2006-04-09 14:15
Biking in Buenos Aires is perhaps a bad idea; biking and wine-tasting in Mendoza is surely worse.But it was a beautiful day and the image of pedalling through vineyards was too appealing not… Read More
2006-03-23 19:00
To those of your familiar with local driving habits, biking in Buenos Aires may sound like a very bad idea.On the other hand, the city is mostly flat and vast, so getting around on two wheel… Read More
2006-03-18 03:44
Rubí, a pocket-sized friend from Valencia, once called Buenos Aires as the “City of Dancing Flagstones.” Her description is not only poetic, it is true: instead of poured… Read More
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