I wait in a Buenos Aires police station next to Alice, my cheerful Australian tour guide, and across from a disheveled police officer. I try to follow the pair’s conversation, but it’s too fast for my ...

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There’s nothing more Argentine than smooth, sinuous tango, but there’s no way Anthony Bourdain is getting caught in the dance’s seductive embrace. “Hell, no,” Bourdain told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “No, ...

You can’t escape tango in Buenos Aires. It is danced on the trains and in the streets. Restaurants in the bohemian neighborhoods of San Telmo and La Boca try to lure tourists inside with exhibition ...

In the bohemian district of Almagro in Buenos Aires, the wistful notes of the tango classic “Vida Mía” drift out a window of a small cultural center. Inside, on a makeshift dance floor, couples move ...

Now and then in Buenos Aires, I have the urge to rub against a man I’ve never met. When that occurs, I usually go to La Boca, the barrio that throbs with the afterglow of brilliantly colored paints ...

“Mi Buenos Aires Querido,” by Carlos Gardel: “Carlos Gardel is the father of tango, the original, the archetype, the éminence grise. There would be no tango without him. He was killed in an airplane ...

Robert Duvall, the Oscar winning actor whose filmography helped define modern American cinema, is being remembered not only for roles in classics like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, but also for a ...

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Damián Guttlein is the only person in the world who can tune by ear the bandoneon, a unique instrument that powers the perfectly imperfect sound of tango music. A bandoneon, a type of concertina, is ...