Teatro Argentino de La Plata will present “The Nutcracker” as directed by Cristina Delmargo and performed by the Orchestra of Teatro Argentino beginning this Friday, the 19th.  The classic Christmas ballet dates back to the late 19th century with music composed by Tchalkovsky and choreography by Lev Ivanov.  The story follows two siblings, Clara and Fritz, through one Christmas Eve in which they receive a nutcracker in the shape of a soldier as a gift.  Their imagination takes over as the soldier comes to life and the adventure begins.

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Argentine company OpeniMac is selling Mac clones for $400 less than the real thing.  The company offers desktop models with towers and screens, less sleek than Apple, but definitely cheap.  The OpeniMacs supposedly have faster processors, more memory, more powerful graphic cards, more file-transfer ports and can come with either XP or Vista.  They compare speeds and prices on their fancy graphing system, but  the reality of these claims is up to the user.  Anyone want to try them out?

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In what was an extremely important World Cup Qualifier game for Argentine soccer, the team rose to the occasion to beat Uruguay 2-1.According to Fox Sports, it was Lionel Messi, Argentina’s star player, who once again sparked the team to victory.Messi scored a goal only six minutes into the game, and his goal was soon followed in the thirteenth minute by one from his team mate Sergio Aguero.Uruguay managed to put a goal in near the end of the first half but Argentina held them for the rest of the game.This win for Argentina means that they received three points for the game, moving them into second place in the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying standings with 16 points.Paraguay continues to lead the pack in South America with 20 points.

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Today is the first day of the Pepsi Musical Festival, one of the biggest, if not the biggest, music festivals in Argentina.The headliners for day one are Los Cafres, joined by groups such as Fidel, Gondwana, and Los Pericos.According to Pepsi Music’s official website, other headliners include Nine Inch Nails on October 2nd, Dave Matthew’s Band on October 3rd, The Cult on October 4th, and Stone Temple Pilots on October 15th.The festival takes place at the Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires and prices vary from day to day, depending on the artists who are performing.Some tickets are still on sale online on select days, so get out there and enjoy the sunshine with Argentine music lovers!

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Lionel Messi is one of the best soccer players in the world and he is caught between his club team, Barcelona, and his country’s Olympic team. Barcelona has been unwilling to release Messi for the games and eventually FIFA was forced to rule that Messi had to be released for the Olympics. Now, however, the tables have turned again.According to Reuters, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), to which Barcelona appealed FIFA’s decision, said that Barcelona, in fact, does not have to release Messi. Now it is up to Messi to decide if he will defy his team and stay with the Argentine Olympic team. It is still possible that Barcelona will release him at last, but they have fought so long to prevent it that that outcome seems unlikely.

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In a small town in the jungle of Yungas, electricity has been introduced into homes for the very first time.The town is a five street, isolated place called Los Naranjos, and over 400 people live there.According to the Clarín, the project of getting electricity to this town was spear headed by Comunidad Kolla de Los Naranjos and the Pro Yungas foundation.The project itself was not too expensive; they simply installed a turbine and 35,000 pesos later they had electricity.Residents who had lived their whole lives without electric lights seem to be very excited about the development of their town and the improvements that are bringing up everyone’s quality of life.

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The wind, which kept us awake for most of the night, is shaking the windows so badly that we expect they will explode inwards at any moment. The rain, which has been falling steadily, would no doubt follow. But at 8:30 am, we rush out the door and run to catch the municipal bus to Cerro Cathedral, some 20km west of the city. It’s normally a full bus in the mornings, with throngs of Brazilians, Argentines and Americans making the daily trip to ski, but on this morning the weather has most people staying in bed. Thankfully, they are not blessed with insider knowledge that says if it’s raining and less than 5 degrees in the city, it’s snowing hard on the mountain.

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