So That's How Those Plants Get So Green / Starbucks Up, Starbucks Down / Metropolis in Argentina?

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GoodAirs: More than a bad translation of "Buenos Aires" | 07/03/08 22:02

This man appears to be American; the Starbucks, however, is in Argentina (Notice the "Please use exact change/We have no coins" sign?) Just when a boy starts to get tired of the campo striking, Cristina screaming, no one listening, and smoke wafting in from the north--the apocolypse as farce--the director of the Jardín...

  Time for a Change

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SaltShaker | 07/03/08 17:36

 As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to [...]

  A Novel Dinner

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SaltShaker | 07/03/08 13:57

 I speak: Portuguese, German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Esperanto, some Russian; I read: Swedish, Dutch, Latin and Greek (but with the dictionary right next to me); I understand some German dialects; I studied the grammar of: Hungarian, Arabic, Sanskrit, Lithuanian, Polish, Tupi, Hebrew, Japanese, Czech, Finnish...

  Behind the walls at the cabaret show

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Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance | 07/02/08 19:01

I’m really trying to post more often, after being mostly absent from this blog last month. But today, I’ve not even gotten out of the house. So I decided to scan through the tons of photos that I’ve been intending to post about…. Early last month while walking down Azcuenaga street next to Recoleta...

  The Little Pearl

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SaltShaker | 07/02/08 8:21

I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls off a string.” - from Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery Buenos Aires - Some days you just want simple...

  New York Times expat writer Maxine Swann on Buenos Aires

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Expat Argentina | 07/01/08 16:19

The New York Times is talking about Buenos Aires again...this time with a story written by American expat Maxine Swann... At Home Abroad Crisis and Renewal João Pina for The New York Times WITH A VIEW When Maxine Swann, an...

  The Authentic Bars, Cafés, & Restaurants of Buenos Aires

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Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance | 07/01/08 12:40

The other day I received in the mail a review copy of The Authentic Bars, Cafes, and Restaurants of Buenos Aires by Gabriela Kogan. There is a serious lack of English-language travel books about Buenos Aires other than the traditional guidebook. Kogan, a graphic designer in Buenos Aires with her own local imprint, provides a...

  Long Term Buenos Aires Rental in Palermo Soho

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Expat Argentina | 06/30/08 17:32

This apartment is NOT mine, it's a person I know from Bs.As. so you need to contact Julie directly! She'll have photos she can email you. GREAT PLACE TO LONG TERM RENTAL: PALERMO SOHO NEIGHBORHOOD Open view & funky, trendy...

  No baja la carne

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TangoSpam:La Vida Con Deby | 06/30/08 16:47

So what else is new? This was the headline on the news at 7 this morning. (The price of meat is not lower) Of course meat is not going down. Neither is anything else, except the temperature, and that is...