Sao Paulo

Radio Brazil Band @ Padre's Modern Mexican Cuisine

10 Favorite Street Art Sightings in Phoenix

​Street art is (thankfully) on the rise in Phoenix. In the past few years, we've seen hearts pasted, mural projects started, huge dripping landscapes painted, and stencils galore mark the sidewalks and corners of the city. There's a beauty in artwork that's painted, pasted, stenciled onto the st ... More >>

Arizona's Rep Way South of the Border? It Sucks!

Just back from a fast-pitch softball tournament in, of all places, the wildly endless sprawl known as Sao Paulo, Brazil.​They say that about 20 million people live in Sao Paulo, which makes it one of the world's largest metropolitan areas. During "down time" from the games, which was about 90 ... More >>

Cannes 2011 Has Issues

Just back from a fast-pitch softball tournament in, of all places, the wildly endless sprawl known as Sao Paulo, Brazil.​They say that about 20 million people live in Sao Paulo, which makes it one of the world's largest metropolitan areas. During "down time" from the games, which was about 90 ... More >>

2011 World's 50 Best Restaurants: Two Tickets to Denmark, Please

Getty Images​Those devilish Danes have done it again. Curse their delicious Nordic cuisine! (Not really. Pass the Greenland musk ox, please.) Restaurant magazine and S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list is out and it seems Denmark, the land of Lego AND Hans Christian A ... More >>

Soulfly's Max Cavalera Discusses Upcoming D-Low Memorial Show and the Possibility of a Sepultura Reunion

Soulfly​For Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera, music has always been a family affair. Cavalera, along with older brother Iggor on drums, was a founding member of Brazilian thrash/death metal legends Sepultura in the mid '80s before bolting the band to form Soulfly in 1997. After Iggor also left Sepult ... More >>

Scottsdale's Afro:Baile Records Preps Third Comp CD, Party

​Scottsdale's Afro:Baile Records will release their third Brazilian-tinted comp CD on September 19. The latest 12-song disc, I love Bossa Nova, has many styles of Bossa Nova, using 11 female vocalists, incorporating some jazz, soul, and acoustic elements for "a timeless groove." This vibrant comp ... More >>

Michael Jackson’s Sedona “Murderess” Revealed

​Scottsdale's Afro:Baile Records will release their third Brazilian-tinted comp CD on September 19. The latest 12-song disc, I love Bossa Nova, has many styles of Bossa Nova, using 11 female vocalists, incorporating some jazz, soul, and acoustic elements for "a timeless groove." This vibrant comp ... More >>

The Skinny: Battle of the Bulge at Tempe Marketplace

​Scottsdale's Afro:Baile Records will release their third Brazilian-tinted comp CD on September 19. The latest 12-song disc, I love Bossa Nova, has many styles of Bossa Nova, using 11 female vocalists, incorporating some jazz, soul, and acoustic elements for "a timeless groove." This vibrant comp ... More >>

Blindness Adaptation Nails the Bleak Before Succumbing to the Sap

​Scottsdale's Afro:Baile Records will release their third Brazilian-tinted comp CD on September 19. The latest 12-song disc, I love Bossa Nova, has many styles of Bossa Nova, using 11 female vocalists, incorporating some jazz, soul, and acoustic elements for "a timeless groove." This vibrant comp ... More >>

Clients of Industry

Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy

Various Artists

Pure Brazil: Caipirinha
Pure Brazil: Soul Groove
Pure Brazil: Girls From Ipanema
(Mercury/Uni)

The Unlikely Lambs

A cross between Oz and The Shawshank Redemption

Dubious Degas

Edgar Degas never worked in bronze. So don't let the Phoenix Art Museum fool you.

Various Artists

Africa Raps: Senegal, Mali, and the Gambia (Trikont)

Boys From Brazil

The speed metallurgists in Sepultura went into the rain forests to find their Roots

THE BOYS FROM BRAZILTRANSPLANTED TO PHOENIX, SEPULTURA STRIVES FOR DEATH METAL WITH A CONSCIENCE

The speed metallurgists in Sepultura went into the rain forests to find their Roots