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Buenos Aires: City of tango and tears

November 10, 2008 – 2:16 pm
Dugald Jellie falls in love with a city where football is religion, tango is love and the disappeared will never be forgotten. Metaphor well serves a big city, with its great uproar of opinions and possibilities, the avenues of illusion, the ceaseless spectacle - as with the idea of melancholia in a city as big as Buenos Aires. Don't cry for me Argentina? I well nigh weep among her fallen angels. It's in crisp Sunday morning light that I walk amid the dead at Cementerio de la Recoleta, through a labyrinth of Catholic crosses and sparse Latin and a string of fatal dates in the heart of the city. "The last surprise party of a dying class," is how local scribe Juan Jose Sebreli described this patrician graveyard and baroque marble fantasy. V.S. Naipaul called the must-see attraction a "mimic city". I come here looking for a poem. It's by Jorge Luis Borges, ...

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Tickets for Davis Cup Final - Mar del Plata, Argentina

November 7, 2008 – 2:34 pm
Tickets for Davis Cup Final - Update The Argentine Tennis Federation has announced that tickets for the 2008 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final between Argentina and Spain, held 21-23 November at the Estadio Polideportivo in Mar Del Plata, will go on sale on Monday 10 November. The best-of-five match series begins Friday 19 November with two singles matches pitting each country’s world No. 1 against the other country’s No. 2 player. Saturday’s schedule features the doubles match, and on the final day of play on Sunday, the two ‘reverse singles’ will take place where the No. 1 players face each other followed by the match between the No. 2 players. Argentina is bidding to become the first South American nation to be crowned Davis Cup champion and this is the first time that two-time runner-up will host the final. World No. 1 Rafael Nadal is expected to lead Spain’s challenge ...

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Formula 1 exhibition in Argentina

October 15, 2008 – 4:12 pm
Formula One squad Red Bull will make an exhibition led by driver David Coulthard in Argentina next October 25; it will be held in Avenida 9 de Julio, the widest avenue in the world. Red Bull announced that driver David Coulthard will make an exhibition on Octobre 25 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The team owned by Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz is used to make this kind of events. But this won't be the only exhibition in South America for it will be held in Brazilia one week before. This year, the most exciting exhibition took place in Pamplona, Spain; Red Bull and Toro Rosso arrived in the city in the eve of San Fermin. ______________________________________ SOURCE: "F1 exhibition in Argentina" 01-10-2008 Sports Ya // Online // http://www.sportsya.com http://www.sportsya.com/english/news.php/Red_Bull_to_make_an_exhibition_led_by_David_Coulthard_in_Argentina_on_October_25.html?id_estruc=283&id=189171

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2008 Davis Cup final - Mar del Plata, Argentina

October 10, 2008 – 3:38 pm
The 2008 Davis Cup final between Argentina and Spain on November 21-23 will be held at the Islas Malvinas Stadium in Mar del Plata, organizers have confirmed on Friday. Argentina had proposed holding the event on the fast indoor court of the Orfeo Stadium in Cordoba to bolster the strengths of David Nalbandian and Juan Martin del Potro. The decision was made after consideration of plans proposed by the Argentine Tennis Association and the site visit reports of Mar del Plata and Cordoba made by International Tennis Federation representatives. "This was one of the most challenging decisions we have made during my decade-long tenure on the Davis Cup Committee," said Juan Margets, vice- president of the ITF -- the body which owns and manages the Davis Cup. "There were many factors to consider including the wishes of the players to play on an indoor hard court, the feasibility of increasing the venue to the ...

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Davis cup final in Argentina

September 22, 2008 – 3:45 pm
MADRID, Spain: Rafael Nadal isn't overly worried about having to play the Davis Cup final against Argentina on a fast indoor surface rather than clay. Nadal swept Andy Roddick in straight sets on clay Sunday as Spain beat the reigning champion United States 4-1 to reach its sixth final and third in eight years. Argentina, which defeated Russia 3-2 in Buenos Aires in the other semifinal, plans to host the Nov. 21-23 final on a quick surface at the indoor Orfeo arena in Cordoba to take away the clay-court edge of Nadal and his teammates. "It's not just the surface but the team (you're playing) that matters," Nadal said. Argentina knows the faster surface may be the only way to beat four-time French Open champion Nadal, who has lost only twice in his last 117 clay matches "They'll choose whatever works best for them. If they pick an indoor (stadium) we'll go looking to be as competitive as possible," Spain ...

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Tango in New Orleans, Louisiana

September 15, 2008 – 4:45 pm
Planet Tango returns Posted by BigCash, September 10, 2008 9:54AM After three long years Planet Tango returns to 523 Gravier Street. Another post Katrina success story. Tango music, dancing, and classes every Wednesday. Kick off party September 17. Alberto Paz and Valorie Hart ARE the force behind Argentine Tango in New Orleans. Authors of the #1 dance book, GOTTA TANGO, Hart and Paz got tango rolling in New Orleans when they moved here in 2000. Master teachers, and event producers, they have organized more tango fun than anyone in New Orleans. LePhare 523 Gravier Street Every Wednesday Beg. Class 7 PM; Int. Class 8 PM - $10. General Tango Dancing and Drinking: 9 PM - Midnight - no cover DJ Planet Tango http://www.planet-tango.com/

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Gaucho lifestyle in Argentina

September 3, 2008 – 3:06 pm
Rhian Nicholson has swapped the bright lights of London for a three month journey across South America from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. Here is her 12th blog entry: Queuing to cross the border from Bolivia into Argentina is a mammoth test of endurance, patience and humour. Despite arriving at immigration ridiculously early in the morning you still find yourself joining the back of an incredibly slow moving line with the blood quietly freezing in your toes as you shuffle about in the frosty sunlight and glare at the officials who are in no hurry whatsoever to let you leave the country. But finally, after four excruciatingly long hours you're able to push your way through the crowd of Argentine protestors kindly blocking the road and suddenly the alpacas, potholes and thermal leggings become a distant memory. Ah, the beauty of Argentina where the hills are gently rolling, the roads have tarmac, the ...

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Steaks in Buenos Aires

August 24, 2008 – 8:03 am
South Africans love their meat, but they can’t hold a braai-coal to the Argentines. An articulated juggernaut carrying 30 large steers led us from the airport into Buenos Aires. It was four o’clock on a Sunday afternoon and kids screamed up and down the verges on bikes and quads, oblivious to the passing truck and its bovine passengers, en route for conversion into the national dish. Gigantic steaks on wheels. South Africans are known for their T-bones just as the Argentines are known for polo but, unlike our gentle chauvinism, the famous Argentine macho thing frequently gets out of hand. Men address other men with a scowl, for example, where they greet women with a toothy smile and the flash of a bicep. Nowhere is the testosterone more evident, though, than in the size of their steaks. A parilla is a steak house, but there’s none of that South African buffalo wing ...

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Tango and Argentina

August 2, 2008 – 12:31 am
Jason Webster reviews Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien: The Tango and Argentina by Brian Winter This is a story about a young man seeking adventure and experience in a world where such things appear ever harder to find. Brian Winter, a young Texan, dreamed of becoming a journalist in the mould of Ernest Hemingway, unfortunately he reached adulthood in the late 1990s, 'when seemingly intelligent people were saying that war and...perhaps history itself were things of the past'. The tango is as much about attitude as about dance His college friends had no ambitions beyond moving straight into highly paid jobs in dot-com businesses, and the biggest news story of the time was a 'blowjob in the Oval Office'. Seeking more eventful horizons, Winter jumped on a plane and headed south to Buenos Aires. His timing was perfect, arriving to witness first-hand one of the biggest social and economic upheavals in Argentina's ...

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TAM and TAP to offer daily connections between Portugal and Argentina

July 31, 2008 – 10:22 pm
TAM and TAP Portugal Broaden Codeshare Agreement: New phase of the partnership offers more convenience for passengers traveling between Portugal and Argentina SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 31, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- TAM (Bovespa: TAMM4 and NYSE: TAM) and TAP Portugal are broadening the codeshare agreement signed between the two companies to offer daily connections between Portugal and Argentina. The partnership allows TAP to sell, with its own code, the flights operated by TAM to Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. With the start of this new phase of the partnership between TAM and TAP, passengers can check-in and send their luggage just once in Lisbon or Porto and have quick connections in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to continue to Buenos Aires, reducing the total travel time. The partnership agreement, in effect since September 2007, also extends to the TAM Loyalty and TAP Victoria programs, as well ...

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