Articles on Reviews
Food Reviews
15 May, 2013, Sophia Howe, Alan Pierce, Robert Noyes
Pronto Delicatessen by Alan Pierce Photo: Alan Pierce Initiation to Pronto Dalicatessen’s Italian fusion is like getting back together with an old flame. The culinary experience sparks an effortless mix of the familiar, paired with the unexpected pleasure of the totally unexpected. The Italian purist in me quivered at traditional ...
Gustu: A New Flavour in Town
14 May, 2013, Amaru Villanueva Rance
Photo: Nick Ballon Dinner is booked for two for Friday at 7 p.m. at the latest haute cuisine establishment in town. Come to think of it, it's not just the latest, but arguably the only restaurant to truly belong in this category in La Paz. Of course, there's La Suisse, ...
Live music reviews
02 July, 2012, Harry Shepherd
Friday 4th MayATAJO @ Target Urbano, La Paz La Paz’s rightly famous indie-reggae- rock band ATAJO produced yet another accomplished and entertaining performance in Bolivia’s de facto capital at the ever-lively Sopocachi bar Target Urbano. The project that was to become ATAJO – which translates as ‘Shortcut’ in English – ...
Musical roundup
02 July, 2012, Matthew Grace
La Paz is host to a musical confluence of rhythms spanning the breadth of the country as well as international genres which range from jazz to classical music. While by no means comprehensive, below you’ll find information on where to find live music and what the city has to offer. ...
Los B
15 May, 2012, Helena Cavell
4 out of 5 stars Los B gathers some of Bolivia's most talented actors and throws them together in a script that gives a face to Bolivia's bourgeois of the 1980s. Based on Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks, the play tells a story familiar to modern Bolivia: a once wealthy family, ...
Matame por favor
15 May, 2012, Lauren Bell
4 out of 5 stars The FITAZ festival went off with a bang on its first weekend with performances of Mátame, Por Favor on the nights of Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 March in the Espacio el Desnivel theatre space. It was performed by Escena 163, an artistic collective created ...
Hamlet de los Andes
15 May, 2012, Danny Rees
1 out of 5 stars Bolivian director Diego Aramburo took on Shakespeare's classic Hamlet in a new collaboration with the Teatro de los Andes on March 27, with little success. The fundamental problem lay between Aramburo's dark, morose style of direction and the theatre company's reputation as lighthearted, colourful and ...
30 grados de frio
15 May, 2012, Carina Tucker
4 out of 5 stars Directed by Luis Miguel Gonzalez Cruz, 30 Grados de Frio premiered in La Paz on Wednesday, 28th March, in El Teatro Municipal. The play was a success, received with rapturous applause and standing ovations on its close. It was performed by the Spanish collective ...
Perfidia
15 May, 2012, Carina Tucker
A film by Rodrigo Bellot Released internationally in 2009, Rodrigo Bellot's latest film, Perfidia, had been eagerly awaited in Bolivia long before its first screening in the country in early March 2012. Bellott's justification for this delay was his desire to be present during the film's premiere, to show his ...
Monthly review: La Casona
28 February, 2012, Robbie Macdonald
Av. Mariscal Santa Cruz, next to Walisuma La Paz, Bolivia The 'working lunch' menu seems to be much more of a common practice here in South America than the other continents. Some countries are starting to be infiltrated by western customs and cutting lunch breaks to an hour or so, ...