Orchestrated to promote Indian culture in Buenos Aires, the city government and Embassy of India have prepared a weeklong celebration.  Beginning at noon on Friday, November 21, in the Centro Cultural Borges the festival will have a variety of activities.  There will be Bollywood films, folk dance groups and seminars on yoga, to name a few of the exciting diversions.  The Hotel Sheraton, Centro Cultural San Martin and Casa de la Cultura will also house the festival between the hours of noon and 8pm.  All of the events are free and open to the public.  For the complete schedule, check out the embassy’s website.

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Personal Fest is one of the biggest music events of the year in Buenos Aires, sponsored by one of Argentina’s largest cell phone service providers.The festival last two days, Friday and Saturday, and this year big name stars like The Offspring, The Jesus & Mary ChainandSpiritualized(Friday) and R.E.M., Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party and The Mars Volta(Saturday) are performing.This is the festival’s fifth year, taking place at Club Ciudad Buenos Aires, and the advertisements for Personal Fest have dotted the city for months in advance.For true fans of the bands or for anyone looking for a way to amp up their weekend, tickets are still available at Ticket.com.ar and cost 90 pesos.

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The operaAttila, by Guiseppe Verdi, opens this Friday at the Teatro Avenida on Avenida de Mayo.The opera was first performed in Buenos Aires on September 23rd, 1853, only six years after it had opened in Venice.It took another hundred years before the opera returned to the city, in 1966.Centering on the life of Attila, king of the Huns, the opera is a good introduction to Verdi as it contains most of his signature styles.According to the website of Buenos Aires Lírica, the company performing the opera, the production runs until the 26th of July and tickets start at 40 pesos and run to 180, depending on how well you want to be able to see the face of Attila the fearsome Hun.

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I heard about the restaurant in the type of hushed whisper that is reserved for quasi-spiritual experiences like natural wonders or ghost sightings. If the nameless establishment had not been mentioned in the public domain of the web, I would swear it was part of an underground gastronomy-lovers cult that met once a week to eat dolma and kufta. However, the “Friday Night Dinner,” as it is so-called, is frequented every week by hundreds of Armenians and food lovers in a cultural center located in the heart of Palermo Viejo.

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This Friday night, starting at 7pm, is another in the series of Gallery Nights held every Friday night in the fall in Buenos Aires.Gallery Nights is organized by the art magazine Arte al Dia and takes place in some of Buenos Aires’s swankiest neighborhoods:Barrio Norte and Recoleta.Over 60 galleries, museums, and cultural centers are open and free to the public for this one night of wine drinking, music listening, and general life appreciation.If it gets too cold, there is also a free transportation service that takes gallery goers from stop to stop, following the route from Plaza San Martin to Callao and from Tucuman to Libertador.

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With the tourist season proper not yet officially underway, Dubrovnik saw the arrival of a plethora of tourists from cruisers docked in the waters off this southernmost resort and historic town in Croatia on Friday that blocked the narrow access routes to the Dubrovnik Old Town.

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