Destination: Argentina
Which City Has the Worst Drivers?
by Michael Yessis | 03.31.06 | 1:45 AM ET
Is it Buenos Aires? Mexico City? Kuwait City? Rome? Los Angeles? London Times correspondent Chris Ayres devotes his latest So L.A. blog entry to his opinion on the subject. “[T]his week I returned from Buenos Aires, Argentina, a city whose entire population seems to be trying to break the land speed record in a 1984 Renault 9 GLS,” he writes. “And I concluded that the lapses of concentration demonstrated by motorists in Los Angeles is far preferable to the sociopathic stare of the average Porteno cab driver, who considers it his duty to accelerate towards stationary objects (including human beings) at double the speed limit, before averting multiple homicide by stomping on the brakes or swerving violently.” Sounds horrible, but I’m going the other way on this. I’ve seen some dreadful drivers here in Los Angeles. Just tonight, for instance, I was traveling a busy two-lane street when the guy in front of me swerved into the oncoming lane and stopped cold, just to drop off his passengers. No hazards. No signal. No brain.
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Yahoo! Buzz“Kiss and Tango” on “The World”
by Jim Benning | 08.22.05 | 11:06 PM ET
We recently mentioned the new travel memoir “Kiss and Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires.” Today, the public radio show “The World” featured a segment on the book and its author, Marina Palmer. The report features some fine tango playing in the background. (Scroll down the page to find the segment.)
The Critics: “Kiss & Tango”
by Jim Benning | 07.25.05 | 2:59 PM ET
In Sunday’s Los Angeles Times Book Review, Susan Salter Reynolds reviews a new travel memoir, “Kiss & Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires,” by Marina Palmer. The book chronicles the author’s move from New York to Buenos Aires, where she takes up tango dancing, studying the moves by day and hitting the tango clubs by night, hoping to become a professional dancer. Salter Reynolds likes the book. “Palmer’s effervescence is so contagious that a reader feels she has actually lived the life (hangovers and all),” she writes (scroll down one item on the page). “Armchair tango. Now that’s escape.”
How I Moved to Argentina and Became a Not-So-Famous Model
by Jim Benning | 03.09.05 | 8:57 PM ET
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