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Netflik is producing a second season of Reino. Her latest book, A Little Luck, has just been released in English.

what was the bill (in pesos) at Don Julio? And does everybody realize you can buy the special aged beef they use at their meat shop down the street? and the sausages.

Right. Check out "On the Beach" for how being so far south works out.

This is a pretty silly piece since it describes a drink and does not indicate where it might be served. La Favorita would be at best a guess. I've reviewed all the past posts but I'll ask the question once again: anyone know where one can get a decent dry martini in CABA? I am only too aware...

A man walks into a bar. The bartender asks: what will you have? The man replies: a dry martini. The bartender puts the gin and ice into a shaker, holds it up to his mouth ans says: "vermouth." He pours the drink. The man sips it and looks at the bartender and says: "Loudmouth."

Faust Jueves 13/07, 20hs. Auditorio AMIA, Pasteur 633, Primer Subsuelo – CABA. Il Travatore 24/07, 19hs. Auditorio AMIA, Pasteur 633, Primer Subsuelo – CABA.

I've had dinner at Don Julio twice in the past few weeks. I also have some professional experience as a restaurant reviewer. Don Julio is certainly deserving of a reputation, for the overall dining experience. But it is also overated. The quality of the meat, for example, is matched elsewhere...

I'm obsessed by the Gin Place (Callao 1375). It lists half a dozen Argentine gins nu to me: 500 Noches pink Malbec, Jardin Escondido, Bosque Alta Montana, Cat Sith, Ma'Hai etc. Anyone had experience of these or of a better shop for artisanal gins?

I might add, if one is interested in this period, the much more interesting writer is Robert Cunningham-Graham. Cunningham-Graham was well-known as a cattle rancher in Argentina. He authored several very interesting works on South America, including studies of Hernando de Soto, Bernal Diaz del...

Technically. Hudson was an American, born of American parents in Argentina. He emigrated to GB in 1874, became a UK citizen in 1900 and never returned to Argentina. He is typically not included in surveys of Argentine literature. As I said earlier his minor successes were of a decided romantic...

Good grief. If you want a book set in Argentina, a mystery or whatnot, why not try an Argentina author? Because --and this may come as a surprise-- Argentine writers have been producing notable literature for the past several hundreds of years. Read Claudia Pineiro! As far as Hudson is...

Attend the Teatro Colon. Read Borges, Claudia Pineiro, Roberto Alt and Tomas Eloy Martinez "The Peon Novel," at an outdoor cafe. Listen to Juan de Carlo and an Orchestra Typica and Piazolla. Spend an afternoon taking a cigaret to Carlos Gardel. Take in the Yul Solar museum and the new museum of...

It's the same everywhere and all the time. Empirical observations have to be expressed in language. Language is subject to negotiation. If you try to pull back the curtain to show what's really real, you will find yourself using language. Apologies--it's the result of too many years in sociology.

Except that "empirical observation" must be presented in language, which is always and everywhere subject to negotiation. Cf. Wittgenstein.

Visa says 419 to 1, this am.

Homelessness is caused by poverty and poverty is caused by inequality. And inequality is a massive, world-wide problem, period. And as economists such as Thomas Piketty have pointed out: inequality doesn't end happily when enough people get pissed. While waiting for the end, I've found that in...

FYI. Fox News is officially on record, by its own admission last week, of lying repeatedly and purposefully. It's like Rupert said: it's all about the money. Fox News is by its own admission not a news organization, so I wouldn't credit anything it had to report about the last presidental...

along with humor.

The historical origin of the word "lynch" is unclear. The word is generally considered to be American in origin and may have appeared as early as the American revolution (cf. OED). In the earliest period of its use the word seems to have been used to describe a variety of extra-legal...