When Sonoma County Fair organizers coined this year’s catchy theme, “Toucan Tango,” they soon realized the big-nosed South American birds probably can’t dance at all, let along tango. The idea still ...

If you think Brazilian music simply reaches from samba to bossa nova, from feathered and sequined dancers to the surging excitement of Carnaval, you should have been at the Ford Amphitheatre on ...

John Barclay's Bushwick nightspot brings underground raves above board Bossa Nova’s popularity might be due in part to the unreliableness of others, like beloved DIY space 285 Kent, the sub-legal ...

An overflow crowd turned out to hear the "Masters of Bossa Nova" concert at the Inter-American Development Bank's Cultural Center on Thursday evening, and hardly anyone left until after the entire ...

Don’t expect to find any reclaimed-wood tables or cocktails served in Mason jars at this Bushwick hole-in-the-wall. Former rave promoter John Barclay opened this 1,900-square-foot club as an antidote ...

Tom Hiddleston had to learn to move and groove to play Charles “Chuck” Krantz in “The Life of Chuck,” a feel-good apocalyptic story (yes, those exist!) that premieres on Friday at the Toronto Film ...

Bossa nova, like the Great American Songbook, defined an era while simultaneously providing a style and repertoire for future development. Although many compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao ...

Eydie Gorme, who died on Saturday at the age of 84 in Las Vegas after a long illness, will be remembered musically for much more than her best-selling 1963 dance single “Blame It on the Bossa Nova.” ...