Volume 16 Issue 5
A Chat With Fernando Gabeira
Fernando Gabeira is one of Brazil’s best-known politicians, an author, and an activist revered as a former member of the far-left urban guerrilla group Movimento Revolucionário 8 de Outubro—aka the MR-8.
Welcome To Brazil
I was forced to interview the 101-year-old Mr. Niemeyer in my bathing suit like a total dick, as you can see above. The urchins had taken not only my cheap souvenir ring, but also my dignity.
A Pit Stop On The Cocaine Corridor
In 1982, Rio de Janeiro had a lower crime rate than New York City. This was the year that the Calabrian Mafia began using a South American smuggling route affectionately known as the Cocaine Corridor.
Household Highs
We asked some buddies of ours in Brazil to sate our curiosity. They gave us three simple recipes for frying up neurons that can be made with crap lying around the house.
Ninja Blade
Ninja Blade is a third-person adventure brawler game thing where you play as Ken Ogawa, a member of an elite government-sponsored ninja special ops team, dispatched to Tokyo to root out an infestation of "Alpha Worms."
Slum Lord
Thirty years ago, an English film producer called Bob Nadkarni decided he’d had enough of London so he packed his suitcases and headed to South America.
It's Sunny In Brazil
A bunch of my friends are pro skaters from Brazil and they’re always telling me the craziest stories from their childhoods of murder, drug mules, and prostitution.