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How An Iconic Buenos Aires Ice Cream Shop Melted Away With COVID El Vesuvio has an important place in the entire history of ice cream in Argentina - Silvano G/Trip Advisor       BUENOS AIRES — Its only now that the news is finally spreading. El Vesuvio, the countrys oldest heladería (ice-cream shop), is no more. Founded in 1902 by the Cocitori family, the legendary Buenos Aires establishment had actually stopped operating shortly before the pandemic began. It...

Last modified on Fri 12 Mar 2021 07.08 EST On a central reservation in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires’ youngest and least atmospheric neighbourhood, stands a strange-looking monument. It’s a twisted, abstract sculpture, in steel, that looks at first glance like the cooling fins from a motorbike engine. It is, in fact, an unfurled bandoneón (button accordion), the fiendishly difficult instrument of German origin that produces the unmistakeable sound of tango: a pained and plangent breath from...

12:00 AM Les Miserables: School Edition - In nineteenth century France, Jean Valjean is released from years of unjust imprisonment, but finds nothing in store for him but mistrust and mistreatment. He breaks his parole in hopes of starting a new life, initiating a lifelong struggle for redemption as he is relentlessly pursued by police inspector Javert, who refuses to believe Valjean can change his ways. Finally, during the Paris student uprising of 1832, Javert must confront his ideals after V...