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Archive for February, 2008

Colorful, vibrant, La Boca

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Explore the colorful Buenos Aires barrio (neighborhood) of La Boca. A working class neighborhood, the houses are painted in vibrant hues that mesh well with the afternoon light. Take a walk, in today’s photo gallery…

Expatriate games

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Six thousand miles away, the game is still on, and it still was no fun to watch if you were a Patriots fan. Watch the Super Bowl, from the other half of the world in today’s photo gallery.

Surveying the dark, oak-clad room with its boisterous crowd and seemingly requisite sticky floor, Rich Lang makes an observation. “It looks like any American university bar,” he says.

As a crowd comprised mostly of twenty-somethings erupts after a play on the flat screen TV mounted behind the bar, it’s hard to dispute Lang’s point. The thing is, Toto, this ain’t Kansas – indeed, far from it.

Six thousand miles - as the crow flys - from the where Tom Brady was being pummeled, Buenos Aires, Argentina is brightly showing shades of red, white and blue. And those colors are growing with more than 20,000 registered American expatriates calling the city home, according to the U.S. Embassy. The “Paris” of Latin America is rapidly becoming a star-spangled colony. (more…)

Walking among the dead

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Buenos Aires is divided into 47 distinct barrios (neighborhoods). For both the living, and the dead, Recoleta is considered one of the best to be in. Walk among the dead in today’s photo gallery.

Touching down in Buenos Aires

Friday, February 1st, 2008

After hunkering down for a 13 hour flight, we arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With Brian’s illness a thing of the past, it was smooth sailing in the Southern Hemisphere. See today’s photos here…

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Thushan Amarasiriwardena

, former Senior Multimedia Producer at The Boston Globe, has always loved telling a great story. Combining his eye for visual story telling and his technical background in computer science at North Carolina State University, Thushan has reported on business, sports and travel for The Globe.

Michael Kurtz

, graduated with a degree in Ethnomusicology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His thesis research focused on the intersection of race and music in Northeastern Brazil. He worked previously as A&R and Production Coordinator for Putumayo World Music, an international music record label based in New York City.

Brian Rogers

graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies, and has traveled extensively in Latin America.

Alicia Conway

is LongJaunt's home base chief and a Technical Producer for The Boston Globe. She joined and contributed with the team out in England, Kenya, Tanzania, The Netherlands and Thailand.