July 7th, 2007 by Rachel Signer
Thames 1762 (between Costa Rica & El Salvador), Palermo Soho
[Hours of operation: Monday to Thursday - 12am to 10pm; Friday - 10am to 11pm; Saturday - 11am to 11pm; Sundays and holidays - 2pm to 10pm]
Buenos Aires, a city of book lovers
As one of the most literate cities on the planet, Buenos Aires will not disappoint a book lover. You can spend hours just browsing through the stacks and shelves of novels, academic theses, art and photography collections, and poetry anthologies in shops across the city here. Of course Buenos Aires is best for book-shopping if you read Spanish, or don’t mind captions in Spanish, but most places do also have an English-language selection.
One very attractive and alluring bookstore in Buenos Aires is the Boutique del Libro, a combined bookshop and café tucked away in the atmospheric streets of Palermo Soho.
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July 6th, 2007 by Alan Patrick
Rachel, our new guest blogger here at the Buenos Aires Argentina Guide, passed me this invitation for a party in Palermo on Saturday night. It sounds interesting, and is for a good cause, so I’m posting it to try and help drum up some extra interest in it… 
07-07-07 A CALENTAR/HEAT IT UP Kick-Off Party Éste Sábado!!!
This weekend I invite you and your friends to: Live Bossanova music, cheap drinks and dancing at the fabulous Casa de Niko in Palermo.
When: Saturday, July 7th
Where: Darwin 1154, PB 14 (Palermo - near Córdoba)
10 pm: Live Bossanova Music
11 pm: Live DJ - hip/hop, electro
Cover: 5 pesos
Drinks: 3 pesos - beer and mixed drinks
ALL PROFITS GO TO CHARITY
This is a Kick-Off party for PROYECTO A CALENTAR CONVIVEN - a project to raise 5,000 pesos in 3 months to get a heating system installed at Centro Conviven (http://www.conviven.org.ar/) - a cultural center in Mataderos dedicated to helping disadvantaged kids and their families stay off the streets by offering educational and cultural activities and providing a healthy, safe environment. They NEED heat, and we like to party - so let’s make it happen!
Bring your friends and come HEAT IT UP FOR CONVIVEN!
THANKS!!!
(Read on for invitation in Spanish)
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July 5th, 2007 by Rachel Signer
Thames 1721 (between El Salvador & Costa Rica), Palermo Soho
[Note from Alan: Again, as with the Tango stuff, it's great to have Rachel here on the blogging team to help review some shops in Buenos Aires, because this really isn't an area of expertise for me. I'll just stick to writing the beer, food and ice cream reviews, thanks. Know your weaknesses! ;)]
Objetos Encontrados - “Found Objects” in Buenos Aires
One of the pleasures of wandering through the streets of Buenos Aires is you often happen upon a store that is entirely unique to the city, a place that shows the culture’s love for antiquities, trinkets, and anything made by Argentine hands. Objetos Encontrados, in Palermo Viejo / Palermo Soho, is one of these such shops.
It’s a fun place to gaze at the various toys, games, art pieces, and household items that are very much part of the city’s history. Perhaps the porteño obsession with collecting such items has something to do with nostalgia for better days in the city, when things were more stable and prosperous.
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June 29th, 2007 by Alan Patrick
Guatemala 5415 (& Av. Juan B Justo), Palermo Hollywood
Out of the very few strict life rules that I subscribe to, the most important happens to be: “when in Buenos Aires, if a man gives you some delicious cookies for free, you must write about them on your blog”. My dear old grandmother used to say this when I was a child sat on her knee back in the mid-1980s. A magnificent woman, and clearly a technological visionary to boot. However, hard as she tried, she was unable to knock out of me this annoying tendency I have for making ridiculous things up.
And so, this post. Read on for more cookies and assorted photo silliness.
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June 14th, 2007 by Alan Patrick
That’ll be a return bus ticket from Palermo to Islington please…
Fear not, you didn’t miss the news about a new transatlantic bridge from Argentina to England. Let’s face it, structural considerations aside, it’ll never happen 
So, if there isn’t a running bus route from Palermo to Islington, then what’s a traditional old red double-decker London bus doing in Palermo, Buenos Aires, of all places? Read on…
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