NYT Tag Team

Yesterday's New York Times provided Buenos Aires with a tag team of articles by the Frugal Traveller (my boy Matt Gross, travelling non-frugally for this piece) and by yours truly. While searching his way through those (Palermo) Hollywood Nights Matt's piece checks in with some of the city's more under trends, like the embrace of cumbia in the club scene and writer Washington Cucurto's Eloísa Cartonera pubishing house--where the book covers are constructed from cardboard collected by the scores of cartoneros who work the streets at night. For my part, I lay out 36 hours of fun, including a bit of live tango in the punk-rockish locale 12 de Octubre (above), which has not seen a spring cleaning in many years (and that's fine, thank you very much).