SESAME STREET — Elmo Plays Hide and Seek with Brett Goldstein and Grover.

San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina: San Telmo is the oldest barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is a well-preserved area of the Argentine metropolis and is characterized by its colonial buildings. Cafes, tango parlors and antique shops line the cobblestone streets, which are often filled with artists and dancers. A street named the "Illuminated Block" is where many of these important historical buildings can be found. Wikipedia

José Telmo Lodeiro (Spanish,1931-1996)

Sunset, 1975

Oil on canvas

Fuego de San Telmo,  provocado por la ionización del aire dentro del fuerte campo eléctrico que originan las tormentas eléctricas.​

Bolívar y Chile

Buenos Aires , Argentina, Mayo 2023

Portal del Palacio de San Telmo en Sevilla, Andalucía, ESPAÑA

We've been thinking about posting about this these last days. It's a debate that has been going on on sm since last Saturday.

Basque actor Telmo Irureta was awarded best breakout actor at the Goyas for his role in La consagración de la primavera. We haven't seen it, btw.

The controversy came when during his acceptance speech, Telmo Irureta stated that disabled people like him have the right to sexuality just like the rest, since they also f*ck (verbatim). Later in an interview he said that he hadn't turned to sex assistants but he had payed sex workers and that prostitution mustn't disappear because bodies like his aren't attractive.

And of course after all this people on sm have started to share their opinion, by praising or criticising him. We have some doubts:

Firstly, what is the right to sexuality? Does it actually exist?

Disabled people can only get laid based on their looks, as he implies? Isn't there anything deeper than how a body looks or is shaped? Will nobody have sex with a disabled person voluntarily?

Regarding prostitution, as a user - he himself said it - does he actually do some research to find a voluntary sex worker or does he just pay a woman he knows nothing about and that may be forced to prostitute herself? Can a client actually do a research on this?

Why is this issue only adressed when the disabled person is a man, and never discussed when it's a woman?

And then we've read some commentaries on sm defending how sex is a physiological need and quite honestly, that being the case, celibate and sex-avoiding ace people would all be dead by now, right?

We've been doubting to post this because we feel the issue is too complex and we lack education in almost every controversial point, but eventually decided that it'd be good to post and see if we can learn a thing or two.

What's your take on this?

Telmo Quadros - Porto, 2016

Conferenza di Telmo Pievani sull'acqua

"Andiamo verso un periodo in cui per molto tempo durante l'anno non ci sarà l' acqua. Le foto di Salgado sono un passaggio obbligatorio per capire l'acqua. Nel bellissimo museo di Geografia di Padova c'è una mappa dell' Italia quando il mare era più basso di sessanta metri. Abbiamo immaginato uno scenario parossistico ed abbiamo disegnato una mappa che mostri questa nostra irresponsabile passività: sessantacinque metri del livello del mare più in alto. Padova non c'è più, ad esempio. Andrea Rinaldo ha deciso di indire un concorso sulla domanda che chiede una soluzione per Venezia. Come salveremo Venezia? Una laguna non puoi separarla dal mare. Dobbiamo tirare su tutto? In che modo? La crisi ambientale è qui. Venezia sarà visitabile con i sub. Verona sarà sul mare ed anche Lodi. Non ci saranno più i ghiacciai alpini. Il mare padano cambierà tutto. Il mare aprirà dei fiordi verso l'interno. I colli di Roma saranno delle isole. La Sardegna sarà divisa ina due. Napoli sarà un' isola. La mappa geografica è un linguaggio intuitivo che mostra un futuro non remoto. Nessuno crede che arriveremo fino a lì.

La desertificazione, il cuneo salino, lo spostamento delle fasce di vegetazione, etc, sono processi già in atto. Il Mediterraneo si sta tropicalizzando adesso. Alcuni imprenditori stanno coltivando mango e papaya in Sicilia. Con sessantacinque metri di livello del mare più alto non ci sarà più neanche tutto il Nord Europa. Questo scenario è lontano da noi, ma il pianeta Terra è stato più caldo di così, ad esempio nel picco dell' Eocene. Non ci potremo stare tutti qui. Il cambiamento climatico è un tema di giustizia sociale, perché pesa molto di più sui poveri. Proponiamo dei modelli evolutivi che mettono insieme tanti dati provenienti da diverse discipline. Il clima è sempre cambiato: da qui una grande fallacia logica. Noi figli dell'instabilità. Due elementi di novità: velocità del cambiamento (i tempi evolutivi sono di milioni di anni; adesso parliamo di decenni e non è mai stato così); la seconda evidenza è l'origine antropica. Queste sono le due novità fondamentali. Prima dell' homo sapiens ci fu un cambiamento climatico, durato 80 millenni, che portò all' annullamento del 98% delle specie. Sopravvisse il due per cento. Il pianeta se ne frega di noi. Il clima oggi sta cambiando più velocemente di così. Ce la faremo, non si tratta di pensare all' estinzione. Il tema è: chi pagherà e quanto pagheremo?"

Beguinas (2024): Cast & Characters

Yon González as Telmo Medina

Telmo is an attractive, lucid and mysterious young man who hides his Jewish origins. He works in a bakery and supplies the beguinage with what it needs from abroad. He doesn't want problems, but he doesn't dodge them either. When he meets Lucía and remembers her from his childhood, he decides to keep it quiet and avoid the danger of being recognized, as in the past he worked for the Avellaneda family. Loyal, sincere and thorough, he cannot avoid rejecting the marriage that his friend proposes and risking everything for a woman who, in addition to being a Christian, belongs to a noble family, owner of lands that were taken from his ancestors.

He dreams of a future somewhere called the New World, where he can live out his love and his faith in freedom.

Lucía || Marie Anne || Gabriela || Guiomar || Sibila || Beatriz || Juana || Catalina || Munio || Jimena || Rodrigo || Lebrín || Gonzalo || Lasarte

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

- Carlos Gavito, Argentine tango maestro

The word “tango” or “tambo” appears around the turn of the 19th century to describe music and dance events organised by slaves. The first official use of the word appears in a statute from 1789, where Argentine authorities banned “tango” gatherings to oppress the working class. It wasn’t until one hundred years later that the word became commonplace. The original tango dance was a blend of styles produced by the mix of cultures in the lively port of Buenos Aires. In the 19th century, thousands of young people arrived from Europe in search of a better life. In the Argentine capital, they lived side-by-side with former slaves and indigenous peoples. As a result, their traditions in dance and music began to mesh.

Argentine tango developed from the potent crucible of cultures in Buenos Aires in the mid-1800s. People from Spain, Italy, England, Poland and African nations lived alongside native Argentinians to create new Argentina traditions. It was this meeting of cultures that created the Argentine tango. Influenced by flamenco, polka, and numerous traditional African dances, tango became a byword for “the music of immigrants.”

By the later 1800s, tango had become popular with Argentinians of all social classes. Tango became the traditional dance during conventillos parties. These gatherings took place in large houses inhabited by several families that included large open spaces for dancing. Accompanied by solo guitar, the dance became an Argentine household staple. Alternatively, couples would dance to orquesta típica. These small bands would include violins, piano, flute, a double bass, and the bandoneon or “tango accordion”.

I learned most of my tango in Buenos Aires whenever I visited one of my sisters who is married to an Argentine polo player and they both share a professional passion for horses. Tango comes a close second which they have passed onto their infant children.

There are many ways of experiencing tango in this beautiful cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires. But watching tango dances in music halls (milongas) or on café-lined plazas rank among the best things to do. And there is no better place than chilling out in the San Telmo district of the city.

We would especially go to Buenos Aires’ second oldest square, Plaza Dorrego, where on hot sultry Sunday nights all the dancers come to dance the night away and keep the flame of tradition burning alive.