“Be at the specified location”: The baffling lead mask mystery of 1966
Strange times.
Brazil
The strange tale of Damião Experiença: Brazil’s folk hero and compulsive hoarder
The price you pay for autonomy.
Meet the David Bowie of Brazil: The wild, weird glam tropicália hybrid of Secos e Molhados
Secos e Molhados (“The Dry & Wet”) was a hybrid glam-rock/Tropicália band formed in Brazil in 1971 during the most repressive phase of the military…
‘The Prisoner’ meets ‘Brazil’ in Jim Henson’s surreal Kafkaesque nightmare ‘The Cube’
Before breaking into the big time with Sesame Street, Jim Henson was an aspiring art house weirdo who counted among his early work, Time Piece,…
Wild, weird glam rock Tropicália from Brazil: Secos e Molhados
Secos e Molhados (“ The Dry & Wet”) was an glam-rock/Tropicália band formed in Brazil in 1971 during the most repressive phase of the military…
The ‘Rusty Knife’ of Arigó, Brazil’s amazing psychic surgeon
With their sleeves surreptitiously stuffed with chicken blood and pig guts, so-called “psychic surgeons” have been hoaxing the vulnerable (the most vulnerable) for centuries. Yet…
Television on MTV Brazil
Interviews with Television are few and far between. Here’s one which aired a few months ago on MTV Brazil There’s an amusing bit where a…
Dilma Rousseff – Brazil’s First Female President Sworn into Office
Brazil’s first female President, Dilma Rousseff has been sworn into office. At her swearing in, President Rousseff said: “I know the historical significance of this…