Subte Stories explores Buenos Aires’ lesser-known subte stops and the neighbourhoods they are found in, scoping out local stories and the best on offer within four blocks or less. To inaugurate the series we take a look at Caballito’s Estación Acoyte on the A Line – the southern hemisphere’s oldest subway. Tanganyika, the Upper Volta, …
Qué quilombo – if you’ve been in Argentina long enough, chances are you’ve heard this phrase used by many a frustrated local. The subte is packed to overflowing? Qué quilombo. Can’t cut across the Plaza de Mayo because of another protest? Qué quilombo. Translated loosely as “what a mess” and formerly used pejoratively to mean …
La Boca at once both attracts and repels. On one hand it is celebrated as one of Buenos Aires’ least changed barrios, stubbornly retaining its wayward charm; on the other it is maligned for its crime, pollution, and violence. Porteños will roll their eyes at camera-toting tourists hailing cabs for El Caminito, the neighbourhood’s iconic, …
Politicians the world over are an unending source of both frustration and, thankfully, humour. While they may often infuriate us with their incompetence, ignorance, or foolhardiness, sometimes you just have to throw up your hands and try to laugh about it (as a North American, I’ve had lots of practice – how else do you …
Argentine film producer Fernando Sulichin’s Hollywood career began by accident; a classroom mix-up in college propelled him headlong into the world of cinema, and he has since worked around the globe with such well-known directors as Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, David Lynch and Martin Scorcese, to name just a few. Sulichin’s films range from adrenaline-filled …
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