Street Syntax
Rio's Drug Lords Are Banning Weed Near Schools — And They'll Shoot You If You Don't Like It
When traffickers start caring more about kids' education than the government does, you know shit's fu**ed.
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Random Urgencies
Portugal's Drought Solution: Cut Water to Farmers, Build More Golf Courses
Satellite data shows 300 hectares gone. Officials approved it all. Here's how.
Ancestral Echoes
When the Beat Becomes a Crime Meter: Brazilian Courts Tell Cops to Back Off the Terreiros
It starts the same way almost every time: a neighbor calls, the cops show up, the drums fall silent. Afro-Brazilian terreiros—those sacred yards where atabaques mark the rhythm of the gods—are often treated like noisy bars rather than temples. The charge is always the same: “perturbação do sossego”
Diaspora Aesthetics
Grid Dreams and Typographic Riots: How Brazil’s Concrete Poets Broke Language Apart
From São Paulo’s museums to the streets of Brasília, a trio of poet-hackers turned language into concrete, grids into weapons, and silence into the loudest sound of all.
Sonic Cartographies
041 BPM: From Bus Lanes to Basslines
Curitiba’s underground footwork slows the world down, turning plazas and nightclubs into laboratories of attitude, Oakleys, and deep house swagger.
Street Syntax
The Economy of Stunts: When Culture Leaves No Trace
Prada and Red Bull prove again that spectacle is easy—community is harder. Watch the aesthetic gentrification of sport.
Ancestral Echoes
F*** Your Wig: A Bissau Project Is Turning Natural Hair Into Revolution
In Guinea-Bissau, a movement called Meninas Sem Peruca is ripping wigs off the colonial playbook and crowning Black women with their own damn power.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Echoes From the Edge: Eunice Gutman and the Feminist Lens of Brazilian Cinema
In the shadows of Rio, Gutman’s cinema found voices that spoke not of despair but of survival, dignity, and revolt.
Random Urgencies
From Livros to Likes: São Paulo Just Lost a Sanctuary to the Algorithm
São Paulo’s most iconic bookstore is being replaced by a YouTube Theater. The algorithm isn’t just on your screen anymore—it’s taking over Avenida Paulista.
Ancestral Echoes
Katú Mirim: From the Courtyard to the Mosh Pit
The Bororo rapper is suing festivals, shredding stereotypes, and turning Indigenous rage into a future Brazil can’t censor.
Random Urgencies
Greenpeace vs JBS: Defending the Forest, Defending Democracy
Greenpeace Wins Landmark Case Against JBS in Brazil, a Victory for Protest and the Amazon.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Rio’s Lost Operating System: How 1922 Rewired Brazil
From Oito Batutas’ Paris detour to pulp novels of drugged-up melindrosas, Rio hacked modernity with cracked code the elites tried to bury.