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Well, I of course would be willing to exchange my pesos to dollars with anyone on the site, but I would imagine it's rather unlikely that someone will have exactly the number of dollars that I need (or that I'll have exactly the number of pesos they need). I am trying to minimize the "cut" the...

I'm on my way out of Buenos Aires after many enjoyable months, and through some miscalculation, I find myself with quite a few leftover pesos. Does anyone have any recommendations about the best place the change those pesos back into American dollars?

Coffee Break Spanish and some of the other free podcasts available on the iTunes music store aren't bad. The catch, of course, is that the accent down here is very different from the accent you're going to hear in just about any "spanish learning" program--unless it's specifically teaching...

I'm on my way out of Buenos Aires, after 4 months here. I have to check out of my apartment at 10 a.m. next Wednesday, however my flight doesn't leave until 11:50 p.m. in the evening. I have quite a bit of luggage and would like to find some place to leave it for a few hours so that I can...

I saw Me Daras Mil Hijos last week at Niceto Club. They were pretty great. But I also really liked the opening band. It was a singer/acoustic guitar player, acoustic guitar player, and then like 5 or 6 more guys singing vocal harmony. Anyone else see that show? How awesome was that? Did...

Not to be a dork here, but . . . Obama is actually the 43rd president the USA has had. Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, so he is often counted twice. But only 43 people have actually been president of the US.

Thanks for the recommendations, everyone! I'll second your praise for the live music scene in BA, Ries, though I am disappointed that there haven't been as many shows the last month (in whatever genre) as there were in November and December. Which seems strange to me since, at least in the...

Yeah, a movie ticket is 15 pesos. A few more things you might be interested that I can think of off the top of my head. Steak in a grocery store is about 20 pesos/kilo, which works out to about $2.50/pound American. A dozen empanadas is about 30 pesos. Wine in a grocery store: Think...

Hello, I'm a musician and music scholar from the U.S. but living in Buenos Aires now. I'm trying to get to know a bit more about Argentine music, so I'm wondering if anyone here has specific CD recommendations of musicians worth checking out. Any style is fine (rock, tango, jazz, cumbia...

There's an article in the new issue of Rolling Stone (the one with AC/DC on the cover) about biking in Buenos Aires. Doesn't seem to be available online, however.

Right, so the usual deal is that you can get a 90 day stamp on entry, which can then be extended at the Migrations office in B.A. Or you can just go over to Uruguay and get another 90-day stamp upon re-entry. This may be bending the rules a bit, but you seem to be able do this indefinitely.

As an Obama supporter, I'll admit to being thoroughly perplexed by his choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration. I wouldn't have cared if Obama had picked someone whose social views were far to the right of the "average" American, the average Obama supporter, or myself...

Well, if you're looking for a place to spend northern hemisphere winters (between November and February, for example), I would probably recommend against Brazil. Buenos Aires has the potential to be very hot during January and February (it's been pretty tolerable thus far), but Brazil is going...

It's very romantic and all that if you sympathize with his politics, but ultimately I think the only thing that's happening is that he's committing a kind of citizenship suicide and the only person he's hurting is himself. If you despise the U.S. or not, it's inarguable that a U.S. passport is...

Hey, so my girlfriend and I are looking for a nice place to have Christmas dinner. Casa Felix has something, but the 330 pesos per person they're charging is a little steep for us. Does anyone have any leads on restaurants that are serving a nice Christmas dinner?

Umm, I didn't bring up Krugman because I believe he offers the unvarnished truth. He has an opinion about what's happening with the economy, sure. Is anyone really claiming that they know absolutely what's happening with the economy and how to fix it? So we all have opinions. I'm an academic...

Rather than getting on the subject of change (real or imagined) or "liberals" (real or only advertised as such), those interested in the topic of depressions and recessions might want to take a look at a recent interview with Paul Krugman on the occasion of the republication of his book, "The...

On a lighter note, here's an article from the American online magazine slate about the chronic coin shortage in Argentina. http://www.slate.com/id/2205635/

A couple of things. If anyone thought that Obama was going to fundamentally and radically change the American system of government, they were only projecting their own desires onto Obama. Obama is not a radical politician and is very much a part of the "system," for good or for ill. If you...

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has more updated information on entry fees the Argentine government is going to start charging U.S. passport holders (among others) starting January 1. Apparently it's going to be $134 "reciprocity fee" to offset (retaliate against?) the fees the U.S. government...