cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jan 24, 2012, 7:38 am
Finally. I started writing this story at the time it began--in February of 1992, when I was so depressed after my husband's death I wanted to swallow all of his left-over meds and follow him into the beyond. So what began in a way as a journal or diary became the chronicle of my road to survival in ...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Dec 6, 2011, 12:29 pm
La Confitería Ideal is the iconic tango salon of Buenos Aires. When tourists and dancers alike pass through the double doors on Suipacha near Corrientes, they feel in their gut they are entering the historic soul of tango. However La Ideal spent almost all of its life since it was built in 1912 as...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 21, 2011, 10:11 am
Just like Art Buchwald used to do with his Thanksgiving column explaining the custom to the French, here is a republishing of my annual Thanksgiving post. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, even if this coming Thursday isn't your traditional day. We all have much to be grateful for. Each autumn when ...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 19, 2011, 8:56 am
Just as my own memoir, The Church of Tango, is readying itself for publication, there is yet another woman's tango memoir soon to be published in the UK. I guess that proves there is an audience out there. Where are the tango memoirs written by men? There are a couple of excellent books by men, Long...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 15, 2011, 5:42 pm
The latest quarterly edition of the complete guide to tango in Buenos Aires. To better preserve the graphic definitions, the digital magazine is in three parts: aBAT 209 Digital 1(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 26, 2011, 8:57 pm
In the States, "everyone" is our "friend," even if we just met them. It's our culture and our language. We want to be friendly. We smile a lot and try to act friendly. We talk about Man's Best Friend, we belong to the Friends of the Library, we are Best Friends Forever with someone for a week. I'm a...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 23, 2011, 11:24 am
With the retirement of Julio Bocca, Maxi Guerra has become the #1 male superstar of Argentine dance. He's getting a little older now (over 44) and is broadening his horizons by being a judge on the TV show, Talento Argentino, and moving out of the strictly classical dance he is famous for. Last wee...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 10, 2011, 8:49 am
Happy Camper!Ruben and I were invited to share in the Anuva Wine Tastings at the Rendez-Vous Hotel in where else but the expat gringolandia of Palermo last week. I've had the affiliate link at the top right of my blog for quite a while, but didn't have first hand experience. Now I can wholeheartedly...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 5, 2011, 9:27 am
The starred review from BOOKLIST said, "Delivers its grim story line with artistic mastery....Short and precise, the novel uses the elegance of tango to radiate sensuality throughout. This is an absorbing and surprisingly action-packed tale based in the ugly truths of Argentina's history.'" I'm ...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 26, 2011, 1:24 pm
I already did a series on the embrace:  Holds and Embraces and Learn by Looking where the woman's left arm is discussed. The above photo is a recent one of the ever-increasing trend for the woman to grip the man's back like there's no tomorrow, with fingers spread and her shoulder raised. I think i...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 8, 2011, 1:19 pm
Buy on Amazon Tango tourism is a relatively new phenomenon in Buenos Aires. When I first came in 1997, it was a rarity. We 35 or so Americans were looked on as exotic, and many milongas and milongueros didn't know what to do with us. Luckily we had an expert guide (Daniel Trenner), and for many of u...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 31, 2011, 11:04 pm
Ruben and I Dancing Final Round at La Rural in 2006Two days ago the World Champions of Salon Tango 2011 were chosen at the huge venue of Luna Park in Buenos Aires. The premier five winners are: 1st Place: Diego Julian Nenavidez Hernandez and Natasha Agudelo Arboleda -- Colombia 2nd Place : John Erba...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 20, 2011, 9:21 am
On Fridays when I lived in Los Angeles, as I wrote in the previous Tangofoot, my friends knew that if I'm not out dancing, they should check the morgue. The year before I had a shot of cortisone directly into the ball of my foot at the podiatrist's on Friday afternoon. So painful. I had been sufferi...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 15, 2011, 10:44 am
B.A.tango 208 Digital (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s)...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 13, 2011, 12:58 pm
Lucky number 7, baby! Katie at Seashells and Sunflowers tagged tangocherie to participate in My 7 Links, a project organized by Tripbase. This post here fits in nicely because it is my Lucky 700th! Katie writes: The chronological nature of a blog means that quality posts continually find themselve...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 9, 2011, 5:50 pm
Now is the beginning of the Tango Tourist Season, and foreigners have swooped into Buenos Aires for the World Championships (now there is even a special category for foreign dancers) and this week is the Milongueando Festival.  We went to the opening milonga last night where the Orquesta Sans Souc...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jul 22, 2011, 2:16 pm
 Last night in the milonga Nuevo Chique, a group of kids on their winter break from Comodoro Rivadavia (very south of Buenos Aires)  danced an exhibition, showing indeed, that the "future of tango" is bright. Well dressed, well danced, with a lot of respect--bravo Futuro Tango!
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jul 21, 2011, 1:26 pm
Painting of my tango shoes by Mexican artist Santiago Corral Please help me by critiquing the beginning of my memoir, The Church of Tango:  Death, Dance, Destiny by reading the first chapter here and commenting: Create Space Preview https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1085242 Be honest. I appreciat...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jul 13, 2011, 4:33 pm
Lots of time is spent discussing and arguing in English over various terminology in tango--especially by Americans, and especially on the internet via tango blogs or tango mailing lists. What style is danced: nuevo, apilado, orillero, Villa Urquiza, del centro, club, milonguero, de salon? To me it's...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jun 26, 2011, 12:57 pm
(repost) Before leaving on a trip to Buenos Aires in 1999, when I still lived in Los Angeles, I had been worried about my sore and painful feet. So much so in fact that I went to a podiatrist for the first time, and told him I was going to Argentina to dance, and he MUST make my feet stop hurting! T...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jun 24, 2011, 10:52 pm
The first time I heard them was in 1998 or 1999 in Torquato Tasso in San Telmo, and I went crazy. Now many years later I still am crazy for The Tango Kings, even though some of the orchestra's members have passed on, most notably José Libertella. But Juan D'Arienzo's fabulous music lives on through...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jun 15, 2011, 10:32 am
http://www.carascissoria.com/ I hate to mention it, but in all fairness probably Bill Clinton should be included in this collage. I am overjoyed that I never had to dance with anyone smoking anything!
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jun 6, 2011, 2:50 pm
I am a trained information specialist, a librarian. I worked all my life with books and the organization of information. I have advanced degrees. Why then am I stumped with how to arrange the books in my one bookcase? Showing half the biblioteca with Ruben and lovely student Do I put them by size--t...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jun 5, 2011, 12:58 pm
El Nahuel Huapi May 29, 2011Timing is always everything, isn't it? And fortunately the timing for us to visit the spectacular scenic area of Argentina's Patagonia, was perfect. Because one week later it is a disaster of volcanic ash, polluted water, closed airports, and empty supermarkets. So we wer...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jun 2, 2011, 10:46 am
Plaza in San Carlos de Bariloche and Lago Nahuel Huapi  Pristine waters, snow-capped mountains, fresh, clean air, piney forests--I had been dreaming about it for so long. So when  DescuentoCity had a promotion for a week's trip for two to Patagonia and the Lake District, including air, at half pri...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - May 30, 2011, 2:46 pm
Ruben and I just returned from a fabulous week of nature and clean air, good food and relaxation in Patagonia. But the first thing we did in San Carlos de Bariloche was to go to a milonga! It's held downstairs in the Casino on Sundays, and the night we were there, there was live music from the Baril...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - May 10, 2011, 7:20 pm
The one tango magazine that lists everything tango in Buenos Aires from bandoneonistas and shoes and shows to milongas and teachers--and is bilingual. Unfortunately this digital edition features very low quality graphics and photos due to file size. Please come to Buenos Aires to pick up your free p...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - May 4, 2011, 11:26 pm
Sometimes you wanna go Where everybody knows your name And they're always glad you came You wanna be where you can see Our troubles are all the same You wanna be where everybody knows your name                                 --Theme song of Cheers! (American TV series...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 28, 2011, 10:57 am
I left Los Angeles to live in Mexico in 2001 with lots of luggage, a cat, and several boxes shipped UPS at great expense. Ten years later, it would have been so much easier with much less stuff if I made the international move now. In the big boxes I shipped to Mexico (and 2 1/2 years later to Argen...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 24, 2011, 12:38 pm
Anyone who knows me is aware that I am so not a New-Ager, or Self-Helper, or Pie-in-the-Sky Pollyanna. Well, I'm not. I don't read my horoscope, or seldom anyway, or check my chakras, or anything similar. Well ok, I wish on my birthday candles and the chicken wishbone (we don't have whole turkeys he...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 20, 2011, 10:12 am
Margareta (right) with the Swedish Ambassador Charlotte Wrangberg Margareta Westergard and I met in 2000 when she made her first tango pilgrimage to Buenos Aires from her home country of Sweden. She, like me from 1997-2003 when I moved permanently to Buenos Aires, comes here to dance whenever she c...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 15, 2011, 7:22 am
A repost from 2007 Today is Our Lady of Sorrows' special day. La Virgin de los Dolores is very dear to me. I really feel the pain of mothers who watch their children suffer. On the Friday before Holy Week, in Mexico where I used to live in San Miguel de Allende, her day is celebrated with special,...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 13, 2011, 9:43 am
  Due to much interest in this topic and a debate on Facebook, I'm reposting the links to my previous blog posts on The Codigos. Those Mysterious Milonga Codes More Milonga Etiquette The Milonguero Way Please remember that this is my perspective from Buenos Aires, and that I only attend traditiona...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 11, 2011, 1:48 pm
Don't get me wrong, I love the codigos of the milonga. But sometimes they can backfire. For example, when I first saw Ruben dancing years ago in the milongas of Lo de Celia, Club Español, Los Consagrados, I looked and looked at him to no avail--for two months! Much, much later I asked him why it to...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 6, 2011, 9:47 pm
I just came to a realization today that I've been spending a whole lot of time on emails and phone calls from people I don't know. As a professional librarian, it's my nature to want to give people information, and it's a pleasure when I can, especially about something that I love so much: the tango...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 6, 2011, 6:16 pm
As anyone who knows Ruben knows, he has a happy heart--not the sad, nostalgic, "she done me wrong" mood of the tango, or your typical Argentine. He finds joy in dancing, perhaps where others find release from sadness. Whatever. It's not important why someone is drawn to the tango. But I had the stra...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Apr 2, 2011, 10:23 pm
The Mataderos Fair is open again! Hooray! My favorite way to spend a Sunday in Buenos Aires! Check out the website for information on all of the activities, performances, shopping, and eating. (A repost from 2010) Tango tourists often engage us to take them to various points of interest, such as La...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Mar 31, 2011, 9:03 pm
Here in Argentina you get three wishes when you blow out your birthday candle, not just one like in the States. So a heck of a lot more rides on your once-a-year puff 'n huff over your birthday cake when you can get three! My birthday was last week, and even though this year I felt, as we are so bus...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Mar 22, 2011, 10:51 am
I too had my idol growing up as a tango dancer during the last 15 years. Living in L.A. and traveling a lot in those days in order to dance, I took classes with many of the "greats" in Los Angeles and at festivals around the world. I even hosted an "idol" in my home for 4 days before I had to ask hi...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Mar 12, 2011, 10:23 am
In every field there are famous folks who have become cult figures, from rock 'n roll, to fashion, to sports, to science, to TV, etc. Tango is among the worst, because everyone has his own style/preference/ideas of how to dance. "You dance who you are," means that there is not just one way to dance,...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Mar 3, 2011, 12:17 pm
For the first time in well over ten years, the two days before Ash Wednesday and Lent are official government holidays this year for Carnaval. Plan accordingly, as this is going to be a BIG four-day weekend! Bit by bit people's festivals and celebrations are climbing back into Porteño life, after b...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Feb 28, 2011, 7:13 pm
I talk a lot with my bird; in fact, we often have great conversations in which I'm able to express my negative opinions, my feelings, to confess all in English or in bad Castellano, and he always listens carefully. He stops chattering his chirpy chirpy sounds, cocks his head, and fixes me with one b...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Feb 25, 2011, 11:38 am
So lucky to have good friends like Marcela and Ruben, organizers of the milonga Nuevo Chiqué on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We were delighted to be invited to an asado one hot Saturday night at Marcela's house in Belgrano. And so much like the Night of the Milongueros I wrote about four years ago, I o...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Feb 23, 2011, 4:50 pm
Note: for MUCH better photos, please check out NW Nomad. Gualeguaychu, in Entre Rios, is sort of a back-water, one-horse pretty little town on the shore of the Gualeguaychu River, about three hours by car from Buenos Aires and close to Uruguay. No high rises, no gourmet restaurants, very few buses,...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Feb 16, 2011, 2:08 pm
It wasn't until I moved here in 2003 that I visited the Delta de Tigre, although I had heard of it often, especially from my vacation landlady Maria Teresa. But I was always too busy dancing tango and recovering from late nights to take a day off to visit nature. A few months after my permanent arri...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Feb 2, 2011, 4:19 pm
The following is a chapter from my unpublished memoir, The Church of Tango, written in 2003 when I moved from Mexico to Buenos Aires. I am posting it now in celebration of my 8 years anniversary living in Argentina, and my 5 years of blogging here on tangocherie; this is my 661 blog post. With more ...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jan 28, 2011, 7:31 pm
Yes, it's Carnaval season all over Latin America, but at the same time various barrios in Buenos Aires have murgas every weekend through the beginning of March. No feathers and naked girls (and boys) here--for that you have to go to Gualeguaychu (where we're going next month) or Rio de Janeiro! The ...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jan 27, 2011, 10:24 pm
B.A.TANGO 206 - digital                                                            
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jan 22, 2011, 12:52 pm
My first trip to Buenos Aires in 1997 was very expensive--the dollar was pegged to the peso and the city was as expensive as Paris. However I remember well that a bottle of Lopez vino tinto was 2 pesos, or $2 usd. When Argentina defaulted on its foreign loans in 2001, the ensuing economic crisis cau...
Comment - Like

cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Jan 18, 2011, 8:14 am
To all who know him, Ruben Aybar can be bigger than life--personality, energy, jokes--he can take up a lot of space in a room. Basically, believe it or not, he is a shy man who's motivation is making others around him happy. View of Boedo from the Terrace by Sergio Stellato This is never as true as...
Comment - Like