It made waves again in the early 90's in the New York metropolitan region, where it killed dozens of people who bought fentanyl-laced heroin under the street brand Tango and Cash.
San Telmo Antique market on Sunday is a great opportunity to come across colorful characters, tango dancers, street vendors and street actors.
The place to stroll on a sunny Sunday is San Telmo, a barrio of narrow cobblestone streets full of tango clubs, cafes and inexpensive barbecue restaurants known as pa rrillas.
We had booked two new rooms in a hotel across the street called the NH Tango, but the Panamericano's porters would not transport our luggage there.
Within the prison of small rooms, he created riots of feeling, and then, as the camera broke loose on the streets and in the tango dance hall, Brando's despair became a bitter assertion of freedom crossing into flagrancy.
Wood-grilled parrillas (barbecues); sultry tango clubs; streets teeming with galleries, cafes, fleamarkets and jazz clubs; riverboat rides into the Tigre delta... it would be easy to spend weeks here, or you could push out of the city and stay on a rural ranch.
In this last group, Redknapp's Argentine tango was all street lamps, slashed satin and a segment towards the end where she was dragged along on her toes by Kevin – which looked a little as though he was nicking a particularly ravishing rolled-up rug, but these are what classic Strictly moments are made of.
"Hi, this will only take a second," I said – a time constraint means she won't worry about you outstaying your welcome – "We're going dancing, do you know the best place near here?" I ended up dancing the tango in the street with her and she gave me her phone number.
Harold had been raised in the streets of Medellín, Colombia, listening to tango and salsa lyrics that spoke of the harsh local realities of violence, drugs and prison.
On Feb. 2, Elliot Caplan, an award-winning director/producer, will introduce and discuss "Utango," his short film about tango on the streets of Buenos Aires; a scene from the film is pictured at left.
