http://www.gridskipper.com/ This is Gridskipper's Buenos Aires section. http://www.gawker.com/advertising/terms-of-use.php en-us tips@gridskipper.com 2006-08-02T15:09:07-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/buenos-airess-soho-gives-london-and-ny-a-good-run-191643.php New York's Soho stands for South of Houston, London's for South of Holborn, but Buenos Aires's? Located in the bustling Palermo section, Soho doesn't stand for much except shopping, eating and artsy-fartsying. In the latest edition of their peripatetic mission... 191643@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-08-02T15:09:07-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/tango-dancers-for-rent-190986.php Giving the occupation of taxi dancer a new buff and polish, in the last two years male tango dancers in Buenos Aires have taken to the job of dance-partner-for-hire, which pays $10-15/hour (a princely sum when translated into pesos).... 190986@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-07-31T17:23:01-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/the-swanktastic-bk-lounge-189736.php Buenos Aires blogger Line of Sight notes one of the city's most truly hidden treasures: the Burger King at the corner of Florida and Corrientes. A Burger King? Well, a Burger King now, but one that was originally a... 189736@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-07-25T14:05:04-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/palacio-duhau-188721.php The new super-luxe Park Hyatt Buenos Aires--called the Palacio Duhau--opened a week ago, noted by a Travel + Leisure piece I did for the June issue and a more recent Wallpaper* stamp of approval among others. Aiming for something... 188721@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-07-21T09:10:25-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/club-647-188152.php Not content with the exporting of the English Private Club concept to NYC via the Soho House, the English--well, two English guys (I refuse to say "fellows")--have now brought the concept to Buenos Aires. Time Out Argentina co-editor Matt... 188152@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-07-18T14:43:18-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/anda-its-whats-for-dinner-186798.php Today's NYT food trendspots in Buenos Aires, calling out a rise in the use of indigenous Inca empire ingredients like meat from the ñandú (pictured), a local kind of ostrich that usually appears to be decked out in a... 186798@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-07-12T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/david-byrne-in-argentina-185072.php A post at fellow B.A. blog Buenos Aires: city of faded elegance points us to a take on the city we'd never seen before: David Byrne's blog of a recent trip to the Argentine capital to hang out and play... 185072@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-07-05T15:48:28-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/tango-dinner-theatre-in-buenos-aires-184514.php El Querandi in Buenos Aires is one of Argentina's most popular supper clubs and is dedicated to the art of the tango. As GoNOMAD puts it, "a set of three sensual looking couples dance out Argentine's history during the two-hour... 184514@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-06-30T12:30:01-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/new-york/planetout-gay-travel-awards-183999.php Yesterday, PlanetOut announced its 13th annual gay and lesbian travel awards. And so, without further ado, the envelope please. The big award -- destination of the year -- goes to fabulous no-longer-fascist Spain. PlanetOut travel editor Ed Salvato writes:There might... 183999@http://www.gridskipper.com/ New York 2006-06-28T12:53:09-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/argentina-art-attack-183728.php In the not-so-cold depths of its southern hemisphere winter, Buenos Aires has found itself at the confluence of name-brand art exhibits (perhaps drawn, as to a drain, to its spot at the bottom of the world). First Picasso's works... 183728@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-06-27T16:37:43-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/ba-boutique-hotel-bonanza-180772.php In Buenos Aires' recent tourism boom, boutique hotels like Hotel Home and bobo have gotten much of the press (and spots on Condé Nast Traveller's 2006 and 2005 Hot Lists, respectively). But they are far from the only ones --... 180772@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-06-15T09:35:06-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/hotel-axel-ba-details-180365.php Fleshing out previous posts about Barcelona's "hetero-friendly" Hotel Axel and the gaying of Buenos Aires, the Hotel Axel crew have announced specifics and designs for the gay hotel's new branch in BA, now set to open in April 2007. The... 180365@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-06-13T13:10:56-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/london/roundup-roundup-28-180171.php The Roundup Roundup collects recent "roundup" articles or general material about cities and city travel worldwide. Architecture The skyscraper boom [Economist] Baltimore Baltimore Remains a Beehive of Kitsch Glam [WP] Basel Going To: Basel [NYT] Belgrade So ... this is... 180171@http://www.gridskipper.com/ London 2006-06-13T08:35:02-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos-aires/la-rural-ba-meatfest-180021.php Oh you tasty Buenos Aires beef, we're not done with you yet. The New York Times gets meaty at La Rural, the two-week festival of animal flesh (mostly living, for the moment) in Palermo. Over a million people come to... 180021@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Buenos Aires 2006-06-12T11:10:37-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/new-york/sherman-picks-123-delta-sale-769-6night-budapest-prague-airhotel-915-5night-buenos-aires-airhotel-179091.php $123+ Delta Sale: Delta's running a pretty comprehensive sale via Travelocity on domestic and international routes, knocking down most fares to a notch above their lowest ebb, but still not bad. The trick is that you have to book by... 179091@http://www.gridskipper.com/ New York 2006-06-07T14:51:44-05:00