And here is a (rather bad) picture of Pellejo Soco, a Cuban band performing at Biscuits and Blues last night. They draw from Latin pop, Brazilian, Flamenco, Afro-Cuban and Jazz influences, and sang one of my favorite Latin songs, Besame Mucho, which I hadn’t heard in a while.
We have talked much about eBay vs Amazon, Yahoo vs Google, Netflix vs Blockbuster. Yesterday, while walking around in Union Square, looking at the lights on the Macy’s windows, we also walked into the Borders bookstore opposite Saks Fifth Avenue. This, below, is a camera-phone capture of a shelf that attempts a brick-n-mortar version of [...]
This holiday season, if you are looking to make a contribution, find a micro-entrepreneur to fund through Kiva. Kiva brings together microlenders with microentrepreneurs at 0% interest. MFI’s can access this debt capital to finance businesses in their portfolio. Watch this video. Or if you need someone really persuasive explain the concept to you, listen [...]
I don’t know about you, but I am in the holiday mood. Music. Dance. Food. Travel. Shopping. So, let me point you to some of my writings on those subjects, in case you are reading: * In What’s after Starbucks? I fantasized about a day when anywhere you are, you can go to a great [...]
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author ’Tis the season for holiday cheer, max’d credit cards, and joyful gatherings. And every year around this time we hear at these gatherings of some poor soul who has lost his job in the run up to this merry season. What should we make of the Scrooges that wrote out [...]
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author As we saw in the prequel to this piece, India is a very attractive market for handset vendors. Nokia, is perhaps the best prepared to address this exploding market. So, what does Nokia have going for it in India?
It’s an old cafe at the corner of Rivadavia and Rincon with high ceilings and every bit of old world charm that you can ask for. I spent an afternoon there, writing. Tango music played in the background. At one point, I knew the music had changed. I looked around to see where it was [...]
By far, one of the greatest attractions of Buenos Aires is its vibrant live music scene. It costs literally nothing to access the performances of great, great musicians at various venues. On this trip, I listened to saxophonist Miguel de Caro. For the uninitiated, the saxophone is not a traditional Argentine Tango instrument. It is [...]
