Luciana Lage's blog

We have two wonderful Brazilian musical events coming up in San Francisco: Seu Jorge and Olodum.

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Seu Jorge will be performing on August 10 at The Regency Ballroom. Tickets are on sale. This will be a big event and I expect to see tons of Brazilians at the concert. READ MORE>

We have great news: We are transferring our website to a faster web hosting service. During the transfer our site will be down for a few hours.

This will happen on Sunday July 18 starting at 2 pm.

If you need to contact us, please send us a message through Luciana Lage’s personal Facebook profile. READ MORE>

(Photo by Scott Eggers)

Street Smart Brazil has the pleasure to interview Alex Martins, a native Brazilian who has lived in San Francisco since 1993, surfs with a passion, practices yoga daily, and works for himself as the local surfboard ding repair man (www.AlexMartinsSF.com). He’s well known for charging huge waves at Mavericks, the renowned surf break in Half Moon Bay (Calif.), as well as ripping on a shortboard out front of his house on the Great Highway at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. READ MORE>

The World Cup has been a great ride so far. I’ve had lots of fun watching the games with more Brazilians than I knew lived here in the Bay Area, and with live Brazilian music and all. What a joy!

What do you think will be the score for Brazil vs. Netherlands? Post your bet on our Facebook community. The first post with the right score will get a Street Smart Brazil Travel Mug.

To win you must: READ MORE>

A few weeks ago I went to Santa Cruz (California) for the beautiful wedding of my student Sarah. Carl and I were driving to our hotel when I spotted the familiar green and yellow colors. I basically yelled: "Eita, Brazilian place, I am hungry, stop the car!"

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This is a gorgeous little book of idiomatic expressions in English and Portuguese. The expressions are in alphabetical order in English, so it is super easy for you to find what you want. The book has over 2,700 expressions.

We only have 7 samples of the book. To get yours, click the buy buttom below.

Info: Expressões Idiomáticas Inglês/Português, by Joseph R. Morgan, Clio Editora, São Paulo, 2008, 4th edition. READ MORE>

I love, love, love pãozinho de queijo. Pão de queijo, or cheese bread, is a favorite Brazilian snack: It is a small, soft roll made of manioc flour and cheese. If you have not tried it yet, please do!

The other day I got pão de queijo mix and came home super excited to bake my pãozinho. READ MORE>

We are very excited to invite you to a creative, fun, and professional Workshop on Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation, with Larissa Garcia, from Aula Viva. READ MORE>

Everyone is super excited about the World Cup. I sure am! Tomorrow – Tuesday June 15 – is Brazil’s first game, at 11:30 am PDT, against North Korea. To get your Portuguese ready for the game, check out our video about soccer vocabulary.

I have put together a list of places that will be showing the games live here in San Francisco. READ MORE>

Street Smart Brazil is proud to sponsor "TEMPO: A Brazilian Musical Journey" on June 18th in San Francisco.

I recently had the pleasure to meet Joseh Garcia, a talented Brazilian musician who lives -- and sings -- here in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Joseh told me about his creative projects that range from publishing an album through an Italian label to recording in France to creating a show that puts together Brazilian and Middle Eastern music. Joseh has a fascinating relationship with music: He uses words such as  enchantment, healing, and transformation to define his work. READ MORE>