Volume 16 Issue 5

  • Famous for Having an Ass

    The only person who loves Andressa Soares's butt more than Brazil's sun-soaked masses and us is Andressa Soares. She's really into it. And for good reason: Her ass has catapulted the charming Rio-born girl from bit parts in music videos into the pop...

  • The Glamorous Life

    In order to find said frog and subsequently get high on its venom, we had to travel for three days on a boat through the rain forest.

  • A Brazilian In... Mexico City & Vienna

    I’m from a very small town called Gravataí. It’s near Porto Alegre, which is a very beautiful place near the border of Uruguay and Argentina.

  • Bible Babies

    Managed by their parents, on tour 365 days a year, and charging $900 for a two-hour sermon, child preachers are big business in Brazil. Each event is a finely tuned marketing maneuver promoted with posters, magazine coverage, and radio ads.

  • Torsos Of The Amazon

    Hey, guess what? Not all Brazilian women are supermodels with perfectly taut bubble asses from which you can bounce a quarter two feet into the air! I know, right? Shocking.

  • Oscar Niemeyer

    Oscar Niemeyer is on the infinitesimally short list of people who have designed and built an entire city. A world capital.

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  • Squat Thrusts

    The Prestes Maia building was once home to the largest concentration of squatters in Latin America. Condemned and abandoned for 12 years, the once-glorious skyscraper became an infested shithole.

  • A Brazilian In... Montreal & Stockholm

    It’s a very nice city. Not many buildings. Everything is far apart. There’s a lot of nature, but not much to do at night.

  • A Brazilian In... Tokyo & New York

    I was born to an Italian-Brazilian-Portuguese mother and a Japanese father in Piracicaba, a small city in the southeast countryside of Brazil.

  • A Brazilian In... Barcelona & London

    I’ve been here for nine months. I could’ve had a Spanish baby by now!

  • Hand Jobs

    We called our pal in São Paulo and had her round up her cute friends to pantomime some of the most useful undercover Brazilian hand gestures—and explain the finer points of interpersonal Brazilian communication.

  • A Brazilian In... Mexico City & Vienna

    I’m from a very small town called Gravataí. It’s near Porto Alegre, which is a very beautiful place near the border of Uruguay and Argentina.