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Following the Brazilian launch of the two seater car in April of this year, smart provides local artists with an unconventional platform: the smart Urban Stage will take place in São Paulo from 27 August to 10 September 2009. The popup platform combines a gallery, shopping, showroom and events relating to the themes of urban mobility, creativity and ecological sustainability – core aspects of

The City Public Record Collection was created in 1935 by Mário de Andrade who was São Paulo Culture Department´s Director at that time. The record library was transfered to the Centro Cultural São Paulo in 1982, and it was named Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga, in tribute to the musicologist and folklorist who was its director between 1935 and 1969.

45.000 78rpm records, 26.000 33rpm records and

“A product of social exclusion from established societies, [Brazil’s favelas] represent a luminous symbol of a culture that constantly contradicts itself. But with its hot-tempered cultural recycling, they have also been the birthplace of baile funk: the sound of the slums of Brazil with added samba rhythms and hardcore hiphop. Dense, dirty and full of savagery.” Favela on Blast

While the Oscar Niemeyer exhibition is debuting in Europe, the Paulistas have their own permanent Niemeyer show running. He built the Parque do Ibirapuera to celebrate the city’s 400th birthday in 1951 and later, the city commissioned further works.

Here’s my quick tour d’Oscar and of course, there’s the official Unlike guide to modern Architecture in São Paulo beyond ou

Cool Hunting takes a look back at São Paolo Fashion Week Winter 2009. It’s the hot, fresh, up-and-coming fashion event of the southern hemisphere. You may even get to see Anna Wintour rushing by or Gisele Bündchen striking a pose.

This review features designers, models and glamour galore: watch it in HD. at Coolhunting. Get dressed.

With the launch of Unlike Sao Paulo, the 23-year-old former youth national team player Evandro scored a beautiful winner in Palmeiras’ home game last night at Estádio Palestra Itália.

Check out the lively area around the stadium.

“We live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning,” according to the French theorist Jean Baudrillard… But maybe not in São Paulo.

In 2006, Mayor Gilberto Kassab passed—for the first time ever in the capitalist world—a remarkable “visual pollution” law banning all advertising in public places. That means no posters,