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Sounded pretty snarky to me. Just for shits and giggles, I looked up what a plain jane haircut costs in the rural agricultural area where I live in the USA. Great Clips, the chain with 4400 franchises in the US, and which is based on low cost, affordable prices, starts at $26 . That’s roughly...

or it might have been the one Joseph Kennedy built for Gloria Swanson. Terri is still, at 71, singing punk rock all over the world, and, probably, cutting hair to pay her rent. She is big in Germany, and there is a video on youtube of her in Tokyo 20 years ago with The Damned as her backing...

hair is a personal thing. 40,000 pesos, is, even in Buenos Aires, not that much. There are, of course, haircuts here at triple that cost or more. In the USA these days, 200 dollar barbers are certainly not rare in any major city, and fifty dollars, (75,000 pesos today) is pretty average. I have...

next year will be 20 years for us, although we still live part time in the USA. I love the fact that it has less multinational corporate influence. I make a point of buying as much as I can Industria Argentina, and many things are from small, family owned companies. I have personal...

Here he is cutting hair

I used to go to neighborhood places. Quality varied, they often wanted to make me look like Catriel. I am 71, I dont want to look like a cheto barone. Now I splurge and go to Le Grand Patron. He is a really amazing barber, in a gorgeous art deco building on Suipacha near Marcelo T. I go once...

In 2023, on the 40th anniversary of its release, the CCK sponsored a re-interpretation of the original Los Twist album, La dicha en movimiento. Axel Krygier directed, arranged, and led an all star band that played all the songs from the album. Once. One night only. They rehearsed for weeks...

a documentary of his 2019 show at the CCK.

Melingo in France, 2014. He toured Europe sometimes twice a year, playing literally hundreds of concerts from the late 90s until this year. The Europeans loved him.

1993, Spain, Lions in Love totally rocks out.

In Spain in 1989, playing with Los Toreros Muertos.

Los Twist, with Melingo on lead guitar. Thats him with the giant hair. And Hilda Lizarazu on vocals.

One of the giants of Argentine music died this week. Daniel Melingo spanned every era of Argentine music- beginning in the 70s, he fled Argentina during the dictatorship, and played with Milton Nascimento, among others. But he returned to Buenos Aires, to join the new lineup of the venerable...

If you arrive without a dni, you are traveling as a US citizen. I would not bring up whats in your luggage, and if they ask you any questions at the scanner, just tell them its a hobby, and used, in english. They are looking for bags with 24 new iphones or 10,000$ in new brand name designer...

Most of the Argentines in the USA have at the very least green cards, but mainly dual citizenship. So, sure, a few of them may actually vote in Argentine elections. But the conservative ones I have met are largely voting up there, not down here. the internet says while florida has the largest...