A Rio Carnival Party That Goes On and On

 

 

  The Boi Tolo, one of the city’s most iconic street parties, has come to represent the glittery, gritty grass-roots celebration far from the glamour of the official parades. 

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"The square started filling well before dawn. Some revelers arrived clad in neon fishnets and doused in glitter. Others, who had been at parties elsewhere, napped on a grassy patch. The musicians came last, lugging drums and trumpets.

It was Sunday morning during carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and the square in the city’s historic center was the setting for the start of a kind of roving marathon block party known as the Boi Tolo.

The Boi Tolo has no set time, script or route, a swell of thousands of euphoric revelers marching through the city at a frantic pace.

Those who miss the start spend the day trying to catch up, firing off messages in group chats: “Where is Boi Tolo?”"

READ REPORT BY ANA IONOVA
AND SEE THE GALLERY BY DADO GALDIERI
 

 

 

 

Toffoli e o pião

 

MARIO BAGG : 

Robert Duvall Seared Himself Into Our Memories Even When He Wasn’t the Star

 

 

 " The first time you watch the opening of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather,” you may not notice the pale man with the hawklike stillness seated quietly in the room. There are so many other things to look at in this seismic opener, including James Caan’s Sonny as he waits restlessly in the background and Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone, who’s seated behind a desk in pooling shadow and holding a cat as he listens to a man ask him to murder someone. The Don declines to do so though promises to handle matters, and then both men stand.

As soon as the petitioner leaves, the pale man suddenly and silently takes his place before the Godfather, materializing from the inky black like an apparition. For the rest of this scene, these two men remain close to each other, the darkness enveloping them like a shroud. Don Corleone is facing the camera while the pale man’s face remains largely obscured. You can’t quite make him out, and he doesn’t say a word as the Godfather speaks, adding to his strange mystery. Yet by the time the scene ends, so much has already been expressed, including the men’s intimacy and the unwavering intensity of the pale man’s supplication. This is a man, you understand, who doesn’t just serve power but also helps make it happen.

In a sense, the same was true of Robert Duvall, who died on Sunday at 95."

read article by MANOHLA DARGIS  

 

 

Simon Brehm och Hans Orkester - Lady Be Good (George & Ira Gershwin)

 

Oh, please have some pity
I'm all alone in this big city

I tell you I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood

So lady be good to me

 

 

Fraga no Carnaval

FRAGA

 

Jason Isbell -Bury Me

 Well, I ain't no cowboy, but I can ride

And I ain't no outlaw, but I've been inside

And there were men of stone, boys, and there were men of sand

Long nights alone, boys, head in my hands

‘They All Tried to Break Me’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story

 

 

"Pelicot explains why she decided to forgo anonymity and make the 2024 trial public. That choice made her a feminist icon, inspiring women all over France to rally around her and to demand change to France’s consent laws.

Still, Pelicot has remained in many ways an enigma. Outside of the trial, she never sat down to tell her story. But over a nearly three-hour interview last month in Paris — her first to be published with an American media outlet — Pelicot gave a candid and emotional account of the early years of her marriage; the toll that the abuse, and then the trial, took on her; the fallout for her family; and how, despite everything she has been through and the many questions that linger, she has found love and some peace in her life again."

INTERVIEW WITH GISELE PELICOT
CONDUCTED BY LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO 

 

 

 

 

 

PALAVRAS

As pessoas com vantagens se recusam a crer que são simplesmente pessoas com vantagens. Estão prontos a se definirem como inerentemente merecedoras do que possuem; chegam a acreditar que são "naturalmente" a elite; e, de fato, a imaginar que suas posses e seus privilégios são extensões naturais do seus próprios seres que formam a elite. 

C. Wright Mills 

Robert Duvall, a Chameleon of an Actor Onscreen and Onstage, Dies at 95

 

An Oscar winner, he was known for disappearing into wide-ranging roles in movies like “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather” and in the television series “Lonesome Dove.” 

 

 " Robert Duvall, who drew from a seemingly bottomless reservoir of acting craftsmanship to transform himself into a business-focused Mafia lawyer, a faded country singer, a cynical police detective, a bullying Marine pilot, a surfing-obsessed Vietnam commander, a mysterious Southern recluse and scores of other film, stage and television characters, died on Sunday. He was 95."

READ OBIT BY CLYDE HABERMAN

 

Reforma trabalhista na argentina

QUINHO

 

Fintech de André Valadão sai do ar e entra na mira da CPI do INSS

 

 

"O casal Samuel* e Sara* trabalha há anos numa das várias unidades da Igreja Batista da Lagoinha espalhadas por Minas Gerais. Nos primeiros meses de 2025, um evento na igreja reuniu pastores, funcionários e membros do setor financeiro. Foi quando conheceram o Clava Forte Bank, que lhes foi apresentada como “uma ferramenta espiritual com tecnologia de ponta, criada para destravar o propósito financeiro do Reino”. Convencidos pela proposta, resolveram abrir uma conta no banco da igreja."


leia reportagem de LEANDRO AGUIAR  

Fintech de André Valadão sai do ar e entra na mira da CPI do INSS

 

Trofeu Carnaval 2026

AROEIRA

 

 

 

GILMAR

 

 

 

 

GEUVAR

 

 

 

Maria (Ary Barroso e Luiz Peixoto) e Linda flor (Henrique Vogeler, Luiz Peixoto e Marques Porto) – Maria Bethânia e João Gilberto

 

Chorei toda noite, pensei
Nos beijo de amor que te dei
Ioiô, meu benzinho do meu coração
Me leva pra casa, me deixa mais não

 

Um fantasma de carnavais passados

AROEIRA

 

Dear Pam Bondi, (A Letter From A Father)

"I sat incredulous, watching you appear to lie with great ease, even perverse joy, seeming, to my ears, to contradict both irrefutable evidence and your own words in the past. It was a tour de force in distraction, a true masterclass in gaslighting.

And while a thousand thoughts ran through my head, when it was all over, I was left with a single question:

How does someone become Pam Bondi?

I’m not speaking about your education, your professional experience, or your career path, which are easily retrieved with a few keystrokes. I’m talking about the meandering road to losing one’s soul."

read stack by JOHN PAVLOVITZ

Dear Pam Bondi, (A Letter From A Father)