A woman builds a tower using ice from an overnight hailstorm in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday. Some residents told local media their children had never seen hail or played in ice. Image via Nelson Antoine/AP.
Man Gets Shot After Trying to Hijack a Motorcycle [NSFW]
Warning: This post contains a video of a man being shot which some may find disturbing.
Caught on Camera: Woman Nearly Run Over by Train After Jumping Onto Tracks to Retrieve Her Cellphone
Footage posted to YouTube late last week shows a Brazilian woman being pulled out of the way of an oncoming train at quite literally the very last second.
Fashion Parade
Models cruise the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil wearing fashions by Cavalera on Sunday during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)
Dead Skinny Model Craze Sweeps Brazil
Technically only one actual Brazilian model has died so far — Ana Carolina Reston, shown here, who succumbed to anorexia-related infections after her tomato-apple diet kept only 88 pounds on her 5'8" frame. (This beat out the August death of Uruguay's model Luisel Ramos, 98 pounds at 5'9", who lived on "lettuce leaves…
Times Square: Hub of Art, Reliever of Solitude
In a New York Times article about the city of Sao Paulo's decision to do away with outdoor advertising, our hearts leapt at the sentiment predicting this would make Sao Paulo "like New York without Times Square." Of course, the sentiment came from an ad man, complaining about "a diminishing of urban life" in ad-free…
