This is one of my favorite lullaby songs when putting Laïs to sleep. Hélio Ziskind singing “A Noite no Castelo”.

The Castanyada is a typical Catalan festival, celebrated in the All Saints’  Day.  In schools, girls dress in “castanyera” women who sell chestnuts on the streets.
www.virginie.boullosa.org/fr/2009/10/castanyada/To see photos of Laïs as a little “castanyera” in  Virginie’s blog, click on the picture below.

To Andrés Montes, one of the best known spanish sports commentators, who died today at age 53. He was more known for his intelligent and funny phrases.

On this May 16 (Friday), in the Boomerangue concert hall in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the band Anacê, from my friend Márcio Fiais, will release “O Mundo” (The World), its first album. Formed by Márcio and four of his cousins, Anacê (that means “relative” in the native brazilian tupi language) exists for already five years and [...]

My friend Pablo published a nice post talking about the reaction of composer Tom Zé to the unfortunate statements made by University of Bahia (UFBA)’s Medicine Course coordinator, Antônio Dantas. Dantas had said that the low performance of his Medicine students in ENADE (a Brazilian national exam for those who finish the university) would be [...]