Nowadays in the big cities, despite offering a wide variety of just about everything in the way of information, services, crafts, cuisine, among others, they also represent traffic jams, noise, polluted air, high temperatures, floods, insecurity, environmental degradation and visual pollution. To sum it all up; chaos that generates a disease all too common in today’s world: stress. According to Lana Cavalcanti, cities...

Carlos Eduardo Guimarães is a doctor, an herbalist, a musician, and a painter. Born in Belo Horizonte, he is 58 years-old. He is renowned in the fields of acupuncture and Ayurvedic medicine. His book is soon to be released about diet, of which he is very excited to talk about.    Tell us a little about your trajectory as a doctor My initial training was as a general practitioner, I worked many years in a town near Belo Hori...

 

Gabriel Guedes is a musician, an aviation pilot and a Luthier as well. Son of musician Beto Guedes. He has a passion for aviation, started out making airplane models and today he crafts guitars and bandolins. In 2004 he recorded an album interpreting ‘chorinhos’ music from his grandfather Godofredo Guedes, Choros de Godofredo. At the moment, he is in the process of launching his second album, now of his authorship. How did...

Preferring to be called an artisan of stringed instruments rather than a “luthier”, a term he considers to be too serious for him, for having been one of the discovering pioneers of the art, Roberto Dimathus builds the 12 string viola caipira (Brazillian rustic guitar), guitars, cavacos (Brazillian ukalele) and bandolins. Born in the town of Linhares, the state of Espírito Santo, today he resides in the district of Justin...