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Brazil: São Paulo Entertainment Guide
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This week‘s entertainment guide for São Paulo features a bar/restaurant in Itaim, an exhibition by a Brazilian artist, this week‘s recommended film release, and a roundup of some other upcoming events.
 The restaurant recommendation this week is Bar do Juarez located in Itaim Bibi. The bar/restaurant‘s name comes from the owner, Juarez Alves, who has previously worked as a bartender and waiter, so should have some idea of good service. The decoration is inspired from those bars that once stood in the historic centre of São Paulo, and scenes from old São Paulo adorn the walls. Being a bar/restaurant the menu is not vast, although Bar do Juarez is famous for its "picanha argentina fatiada" (sliced Argentinean steak) with cabbage, vinaigrette, farofa, garlic and bread. A small grill is brought to your table to allow you cook to taste. Other dishes include ribs, again served with cabbage, farofa, toasted garlic, vinaigrette, and Italian bread. A selection of canapés is also available. Note that Bar do Juarez also has a branch in Moema. Open Monday - Friday, 5pm - 1am, Saturday, Sunday and Holidays, 12pm - 1am. Av. Juscelino Kubitschek, 1164. Itaim Bibi. Tel: (11) 3078-3458. http://www.bardojuarez.com.br
 The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (Museu de Arte Moderna, MAM) is currently showing an exhibition dedicated to Alfredo Volpi, titled Volpi: The Music of Colour (Volpi: A Música da Cor). Volpi was born in Italy in 1896, but moved to São Paulo at the age of two, where he lived for most of his life. Volpi was a self-taught painter, producing paintings from an early age, and later becoming part of the Brazilian modernist movement. He gained national renown with his participation at the second São Paulo Art Bienal, wining the best Brazilian painter award. The exhibition is showing 140 paintings, 20 never seen before, selected by the curator Olívio Tavares de Araújo. The exhibition opened on the 5th April, and will end on the 2nd July. Open Monday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm. http://www.mam.org.br
 The film recommendation this week is Prime (Terapia do Amor in Portuguese). The film is a romantic comedy, set in New York (as romantic comedies often are), and starring Uma Thurman as Rafi, a recently divorced 37-year-old. Rafi falls in love with Dave (Bryan Greenberg) a talented painter, who is much younger than her. The film follows the relationship and the love from various viewpoints, including friends, relatives and even Rafi‘s therapist, played by Meryl Streep. The film has received reasonable reviews, and is of course recommended for romantic comedy fans. IMDB‘s page on Mission: Impossible 3. Guia da Semana‘s page on Prime, with cinemas and showing times.
The Brazilian singer Marisa Monte is touring with her two new CDs, and will be at Credicard Hall on the 19th and 21st May (tickets R$50 - 120, available from Ticketmaster, Tel. 6846 6000, http://www.ticketmaster.com.br). Tickets for the Da Vinci Code film, starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, based on the famous Dan Brown novel, and which launches worldwide on the 19th May, are already on sale and can be bought from http://www.ingresso.com. English rock group The Sisters of Mercy are playing at Via Funchal on the 19th May (tickets R$100 - 180, Tel. 3089 6999). US rock group 10,000 Maniacs are at Citibank Hall on the 20th May (tickets R$60 - 180, available from Ticketmaster, Tel. 6846 6000, http://www.ticketmaster.com.br). Mexican tenor Ramon Vargas will be accompanied by the Russian pianist Mzia Bakhtouridze for the 2006 season of concertos at teatro Cultura Artística, from the 23rd - 25th May (tickets R$100 - 200, Tel. 3258 3344). The National Ballet of Cuba, with ballerina Alicia Alonso, will be at the Via Funchal on the 28th and 29th May (tickets R$60 - 200, Tel. 3089 6999). Cirque de Soleil are coming to Espaço Vila Olímpia with their show Saltimbanco between the 3rd and 25th August (tickets R$50 - 400, available from Ticketmaster, Tel. 6846 6000, http://www.ticketmaster.com.br).
If you have been to a restaurant, club, park, museum, or anywhere else in São Paulo that you would like to recommend to other readers in future Entertainment Guides then don't hesitate to contact us!
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5/15/2006
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