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Category: Fact Friday Rio

  • fact friday rio: coconut water

    Fresh coconut water is delicious. wait, that’s not a fact. Fresh coconut water is sold by the beaches in Rio and it’s really good for you. that’s better. I went to Rio for a weekend in March-ish of 2008, and one of my strongest memories of the trip is fresh coconut water. It was so…

  • fact friday rio: poverty and world change

    Violence is rampant in Rio’s favelas. Art can help. This is a big topic for the first post in what I hope will become a weekly series about Rio. I was planning to discuss only lovely things about Rio before I delved into the topic of class wars, but sadly, I couldn’t find much out…