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The article offers travel information on tourist attractions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil including the Center for Brazilian Handicrafts museum in Tiradentes Square, food establishments including Da Roberta that serve Brazilian sandwiches, and a visit to Brazil's hillside town known as favela.

The article offers travel tips for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the Olympic Games in 2016 and includes recommendations for accommodations, dining, and places where the athletes can be found.

The article offers travel tips for the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil with information on its accommodation, dining and other tourist attractions.

This article discusses the internet search provider Google's networking service "Orkut" which is largely popular in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Safernet Brazil is an organization created by president Thiago Nunes de Oliveira to track human rights violations on "Orkut" which have already been disrupted by sexual predators and various hate groups. Google spokeswoman Debbie Frost announced that Google will soon be releasing a tool designed to better enforce the rules of the "Orkut" service.

Features travel destinations and attractions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Restaurants and bars; Nightlife; Street gatherings; Beaches; Accommodations.

The article offers travel tips for Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo, Brazil and includes recommendations for beaches, hotels, and dining.

Filling your time during a cheap weekend in Rio de Janeiro would seem like a no-brainer: head to Ipanema beach on Saturday, spend a couple of bucks to rent a beach chair and a couple more on tempting snacks from roaming vendors. Rinse (in the on-beach showers) and repeat (on Sunday). But if you want to eat actual meals, drink the local grog (ice-cold beer), listen to music and get around town, too, you're asking for trouble. The Brazilian real is at its strongest this century - the weekend I was there $1 got you 1.57 reais - and by one consulting group's measure life for expatriates in Rio is more expensive than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere, except Sao Paulo and New York. Tourists will feel that pain as well, especially when it comes to restaurant meals, taxis and entrance costs to attractions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Now spreading across Brazil: a chain of tiny sushi shops that glow like radioactive salmon and became a sensation in Rio de Janeiro soon after the first outpost opened in the chic Leblon neighborhood in late 2006. The city's university students and 20-somethings flock there after-hours for temaki sushi, what we would call hand rolls and what they have taken to calling ''cones,'' and have elevated it to a post-clubbing snack on a par with pizza. By early 2008, there were a dozen Koni Stores, all extraordinarily orange and most open late on weekend nights. Limited seating makes them good places to hang out and be seen, but not for too long. One of the 20-something founders, Michel Jager, noted that the bright color scheme was chosen not just for its salmon hue but to induce quick customer turnover. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ABOUT 90 miles outside Rio de Janeiro, after the bikinis of Ipanema give way to shantytowns, industrial suburbs and finally green hills, a dozen empty 9,000-liter oak casks lie in a new cellar outside a 18th-century Portuguese colonial farmhouse surrounded by 1,500 acres of forest, pasture and sugar cane. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that New Year celebrations went on well in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil despite of prevailing violent conditions there. Audiences present at Copacabana Beach were nearly 1.5 million but were estimated to be 1 million. On December 28, 2006, about 20 people were killed in attacks by some drug traffickers.

Focuses on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a tourist destination. Beaches; Parties and street gatherings; Culture; Physical environment; Architecture and neighborhoods; Clubs, music, and social gatherings.