Bitesized mouthfuls of yumminess.  “small individual portions of food” as Wikipedia so charmingly puts it. For the various moons that I have been in Buenos Aires for, there are still certain things I miss.  Parsnips and Pimms being two jolly important ones.  While I hope Diageo will one day see the light and get Pimms over here and perhaps when I waddle off to live in the country I will bring parsnips to Argentina, thankfully someone has already improved the Dim Sum offering in Buenos Aires.

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For all you lovers of the electronic cumbia movement that started here in BA and is now sweeping the globe, you’ll be thrilled to hear that this Saturday at Niceto ZZK Records / Zizek Club is hosting another of their epic parties!

While some of the label’s artists are still on their European & North American Tour, playing show dates in Copenhagen, Paris, Barcelona, New York and LA among others, the rest of the crew are back in town and ready to rock the pista the way only ZZK can.

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The New York Times investigates cultural exchanges between Cuba and the United States and how these small artistic exchanges give symbolic importance to the relations between Miami and Havana.

Artists See Increase in U.S.-Cuba Cultural Exchanges

By VICTORIA BURNETT via NewYorkTimes.com

The venue is undistinguished: a cramped theater tucked beneath a downtown apartment block. Tickets cost just five Cuban pesos, or 23 cents. The set, for want of wood, is a beautiful creation of string.

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The past few weeks in Buenos Aires have been far too cold for my liking and I often find myself fantasizing about the beach. At this time of year two winters ago, I was lucky enough to be at one of the most incredible beaches in the world – Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro. Let me help paint you a picture of what I’ve been daydreaming about…

Crashing waves, hot white sands – most of us know what a beach looks like. But there are so many things that make Ipanema beach unique.

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by Jeff Jung of CareerBreakSecrets.com via ExpatDailyNewsSouthAmerica.com

Life in Bogota is pretty good and I think that would surprise a lot of people. Beyond the outdated image of Colombia that most people have of Colombia, little is known about what it actually is like here. Safe? Yes. Perfect? No. Forgive me if I am a little over the stereotype that still exists about daily Colombian life. I can tell you that I have traveled to many cities that do not have the same quality of life that Bogotá offers.
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OasisBA is so proud to support Un Techo para mi País.  This blog was submitted to us by: Marina Ragni, for more information please visit www.untechoparamipais.org.ar.

Un Techo para mi País es una institución latinoamericana liderada por jóvenes. Desde 1997 trabaja junto a pobladores de asentamientos marginales con el objetivo de mejorar su calidad de vida. Hoy en día, está presente en 16 países de América Latina: Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haití, México, Nicaragua, República Dominicana, Uruguay, Paraguay y Perú. UTPMP cuenta con el constante apoyo del Banco interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y el Banco Mundial.

Hasta la fecha, ha construido más de 64 mil viviendas de emergencia y ha logrado involucrar a más de 200 mil jóvenes voluntarios.

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Soema Montenegro

If you haven’t had the chance to get to know Cafe Vinilo yet, this coming month is a great opportunity.

They have a line up for August of local and international talent that will rock and roll you all night long.

You may not have heard of many of their acts, but its all the better this way.  It is the kind of music best unknown at first, that moves you while listening, regardless of if you know the words or tunes.

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By Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters, for WashingtonPost.com

Karla Johan Lorenzo, one of the world’s few sommeliers specialized in the drink, led a sampling session of the simmering brew this week as part of a mate exhibit hosted by the Buenos Aires City Museum.

The beverage is one of the few native traditions that survived the Spanish conquest of the South American nation. Argentines ranging from sophisticated urbanites to cattle rangers see the drink as fundamental to their cultural identity.

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