A Los Angeles samba school brings a little taste of Brazil to the U.S., teaching the art of dance and percussion to anyone who wants to learn. This week, people around the world are celebrating the 40 ...

Explore the shanty towns of Río Janeiro and their role in the city's cultural history. The shanty towns of Río Janeiro play a pivotal role in the city's cultural history. They are home to a rich ...

Have you been experiencing Samba no pé (Samba of the foot) lately? Craving some pão de queijo but haven’t been able to find a place that serves it? Or have you simply been itching to learn a couple of ...

Brazilian-American musician Beto Gonzalez was too young to understand the country around him when his family returned to Brazil in the 1970s. It was only as he grew older, after coming back to the ...

The menus were still at the printer when I dropped by Samba Brazil, a new Brazilian restaurant that started serving pastels, empanadas and coxinha, or Brazilian sandwiches, yesterday at 5075 Leetsdale ...

After two years without its frenetic festival, sultry samba and towering floats, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival parades Friday. A member of a carnival samba school performs during a ...

Campeoníssima, como é conhecida, escola é originária do bairro Macuco, Santos, SP ganhou nada mais nada menos que os desfiles de 1954, o do Quarto Centenário de São Paulo. A Escola de Samba Brasil, de ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Casa de Francisca Musicians at Casa de Francisca, in São Paulo, Brazil. One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and ...

I don’t want to make any sweeping predictions or jinx an address that hasn’t been particularly kind to previous occupants — most recently a java joint — and the stretch of asphalt that makes up ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Samba and literature rarely share the same stage, but at this year's Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, two samba schools used their parades to tell the stories of Black Brazilian female ...