Getting ready for your big trip to Rio de Janeiro or another hotspot? Review these dos and don'ts in Brazil before you take ...

Free culture and free software advocate Gilberto Gil describes his vision for a digital culture built around access to technology. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

The Brazilian singer Margareth Menezes has been named her country’s next culture minister by president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The new president, known as “Lula”, is reinstating Brazil’s ...

Directors of 'Apocalypse in the Tropics,' 'Alice,' and 'Amarela' join the LA Times to discuss how their films explore ...

Roberto Alvim had pledged to create a "cultural war machine" against progressive ideas. Roberto Alvim, Brazil's former secretary of culture, had promised to build a "war machine" against progressive ...

Brazil is passionate about celebrations, its enormous cultural diversity resulting in a rich calendar of events held ...

Brazil's Culture Secretary Roberto Alvim was fired Friday after posting a video that strongly resembled a speech given by notorious Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels while music from Adolf ...

Brazilian culture secretary Roberto Alvim was fired from the government Friday after he appeared to quote Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in a video setting out his agenda for a conservative ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The clowns were already on stage, faces painted white, costumes carefully adjusted. It was to be the troupe’s second show of “Abrazo,” a play for children about a fictional ...

Brazil’s Culture Secretary Roberto Alvim has been fired over a video in which he appears to paraphrase Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The incendiary six-minute speech set off an ...

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