Marc Anthony LIVE In Medellin, August 6th

Marc Anthony LIVE In Concert during the "Feria de las Flores."

Where: Estadio Atanasio Girardot
Address: Carrera 74 # 48-21
Date: Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: 444 - 4446 / 236 - 8888 in Medellin.

General US$15.00
Preferencial US$25.00
Butaca US$55.00
Butaca US$80.00
VIP US$100.00
Premium US$150.00



Atanasio Girardot Stadium was named after Atanasio Girardot, a Colombian revolutionary leader who fought alongside Simón Bolívar.




MARC ANTHONY "TU AMOR ME HACE BIEN" LIVE In Bogota, Colombia.



Estadio Atanasio Girardot is a multi-use stadium in Medellín, Colombia. It is currently used mostly for football matches by two local teams, Atlético Nacional and Independiente Medellín. It is part of the Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot, which also contains other sports facilities. The stadium was built in 1953 and has a maximum capacity of 53,000.

Festival Of Flowers / August 1st - 10th, 2008

The Festival of Flowers Starts August 1st - August 10th, 2008!



Schedule of events for the flower festival (click here)



The Paisas, as Colombian's in Medellin are called, are some of the friendliest people on the planet!



The Industrious Paisa have worked hard to make Medellin one of the greatest cities in all of Latin America.



Bienvenidos a Medellin's Fiesta de las Flores.



The antique car parade is a crowd favorite during the festival.



A great video from previous "Feria de las Flores" in Medellin.

For those who are lucky enough to be able to make the trip to Medellin for the flower festival next month, I'll see you all there. For those who can't make the trip, I'll try to report back from Medellin.

Voy a Medellin!

Colombiamoda Fashion Show In Medellin

Colombiamoda in Medellin celebrates 19 years of fashion July, 2008!

Colombia's Fashion Week closes with the highly anticipated show of Spanish designer Custo Dalmau. Colombia's fashion week closed on Thursday night, as local and international designers displayed their latest collections on Medellin's catwalks.

The Colombia Moda, one of Latin America's top fashion events, attracted over 700 buyers from 24 different countries throughout the week.

Wednesday's (July 30) highlight was the show, put on by the underwear and beachwear brand 'Leonisa'. Its sexy, lavish creations pointed out the fashion trend of the upcoming summer season in Colombia. The bright coloured red, pink and yellow lingerie embroidered with laces and glitter seemed to match perfectly the show titled "Latin Furor".

But it was the celebrated Spanish designer, Custo Dalmau, who stole the spotlight in the Colombian Fashion Week. His brand, 'Custo Barcelona', widely known for its t-shirts, closed the last and final night of parades with a show that mixed outfits from both winter and summer collections.

Dark colours and the blending of fabrics - another Custo Barcelona trademark - prevailed in Thursday night's show. Some tones of green, blue and yellow also showed up on the catwalk.

The fashion event claimed that from January to April 2008, the Colombian clothes industry generated sales worth $879 million dollars. The main engine of exports comes from dressmaking and tailoring, and in the same period, it grew 42.2 percent jumping from $325 million to $476 million dollars.



Colombiamoda scheduled from July 29th to 31st 2008 in Plaza Mayor Convention Center in Medellín.



Colombiamoda the place where you can find the new trends and fashions in formal, casual, jeanswear, and sport collections fashions for women and women.



GENERAL INFORMATION
Date: July 29th to 31st, 2008
Schedule: 9:00 am to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday - Wednesday
Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Place: Plaza Mayor, Medellín - Colombia.

IMPORTANT: Tuesday July 29th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the trade show will only be open to buyers.


Colombian Sweethearts, click photo to enlarge.

Colombiamoda Fashion Show in 2007 on Youtube....

Juanes "La Camisa Negra" Lyrics

"La Camisa Negra" (The Black Shirt) is a rock in español song written by Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes for his third studio album "Mi Sangre" which was released in 2005.

I LOVE THIS SONG!



Juanes "La Camisa Negra" sing-a-long.

Tengo la camisa negra
Hoy mi amor esta de luto

Hoy tengo en el alma una pena
Y es por culpa de tu embrujo

Hoy sé que tú ya no me quieres
Y eso es lo que más me hiere
Que tengo la camisa negra
Y una pena que me duele

Mal parece que solo me quedé
Y fue pura todita tu mentira
Que maldita mala suerte la mía
Que aquel día te encontré

Voy beber del veneno malevo de tu amor
Yo quedé moribundo y lleno de dolor
Respiré de ese humo amargo de tu adiós
Y desde que tú te fuiste yo solo tengo:

Tengo la camisa negra
Porque negra tengo el alma
Yo por ti perdí la calma
Y casi pierdo hasta mi cama

Cama cama cam'on baby
Te digo con disimulo
Tengo la camisa negra
Y debajo tengo el difunto

Tengo la camisa negra
Ya tu amor no me interesa
Lo que ayer me supo a gloria
Hoy me sabe a pura miér...coles
Por la tarde y tú que no llegas
Ni siquiera muestras señas
Y yo con la camisa negra
Y tus maletas en la puerta

Mal parece que solo me quedé
Y fue pura todita tu mentira
Que maldita mala suerte la mía
Que aquel día te encontré

Voy beber del veneno malevo de tu amor
Yo quedé moribundo y lleno de dolor
Respiré de ese humo amargo de tu adiós
Y desde que tú te fuiste yo solo tengo:

Tengo la camisa negra
Porque negra tengo el alma
Yo por ti perdí la calma
Y casi pierdo hasta mi cama

Cama cama cam'on baby
Te digo con disimulo
Tengo la camisa negra
Y debajo tengo el difunto

Tengo la camisa negra
Porque negra tengo el alma
Yo por ti perdí la calma
Y casi pierdo hasta mi cama

Came on came on baby
Te digo con disimulo
Tengo la camisa negra
Y debajo tengo el difunto

"No Reservations" season 4, episode 12: Travels To Colombia

Anthony Bourdain in Medellin, Colombia

No Reservations: In Colombia

Location: This week Anthony is in Colombia, a country that finds itself the setting of one of South America's most remarkable transformations. In the 25 years since the death of Pablo Escobar, this once war-torn country has emerged like a phoenix from the scars of the past. Colombia offers Tony a tantalizing mix of cultures, delicious food and beautiful mountain scenery.

The next and final stop on Tony's Colombian odyssey is Medellín, the second-largest city in Colombia and one of its most notorious. The crew visits Queareparaenamorarte (try pronouncing that one), a restaurant that serves traditional Colombian cooking from across the country. Tony gorges himself on a mouth-watering array of foods - a plate of chorizo, rice soup with meat, avocado and plantains, flank steak and tamales de tilapia prepared with coconut, plantains and passion fruit sauce. All the while he's downing shots of aguardiente, the local Colombian rum, with his hosts. C'mon did you really think we could have an episode of No Reservations without Tony getting drunk?

And we're just getting started. In a show renowned for its gluttony, Tony's Medellín visit turns into one of the most gluttonous we've probably ever witnessed. Bourdain has breakfast at the "How Yummy" restaurant at the Plaza Minorista market in Medellín. After an appetizer of empanadas, he dines on Calentao, a typical breakfast plate of leftover rice, beans, fried eggs, fried plantains, an arepa covered in cheese AND meat. In what has to be the line of the episode, Tony decides that Calentao "makes the Grand Slam at Denny's look like a carrot stick." Heart attack anyone?

Clearly not yet full from his gigantic breakfast, Tony has an even bigger lunch, consisting of a plate with beans, salad, rice, fried eggs, pulled pork, an arepa, chorizo and chicharron. Good god man, please make it stop. It's almost painful to watch a human being eat this much food. But then again, it is a cooking and eating show - who am I to judge?

Tony wraps up the episode with a visit to the some of Medellín's rougher barrios for a traditional Sancocho lunch and a little local culture. His hosts are the neighborhood's residents - people who have experienced a dramatic rise in their standard of living in recent years. What was once the training ground for the Colombian drug cartels and their armies of mercenaries is now home to young adults who have started their own hip-hop crew, a filmmaker and a talented young chef. Thankfully Tony spares us the "kumbaya" moment at the campfire and gets back to what he does best - eating some tasty food and hanging out with his guests.

Bourdain's examination of Colombia offers the country high marks and an optimistic road to the nation's future success. It's the type of country that only Anthony Bourdain does best - a place cluttered with misconceptions waiting to be corrected. And although a "human interest" angle was definitely woven into the episode, No Reservations: Colombia was really all about the food. Tony's focus on the country's diverse and delicious cuisine definitely made this a surprising and very enjoyable episode to watch. But more than that, I found myself wanting to go visit Colombia - for any travel show, this is the pinnacle of a successful episode.

The Globalization of Medellin, Colombia

Medellin, Colombia In Transformation

MEDELLÍN, Colombia — This labyrinthine metropolis transformed over the course of the decade from a battlefield of drug lords, paramilitaries and leftist guerrillas into one of the safest, most dynamic cities in Latin America. Visionary inner-city renewal projects and a push to take back the lawless hillside slums by force deserve credit, but many here hail an unsung hero in Medellín's urban miracle — globalization.


Lina Marcela Zapata works in a Medellín factory that is part of Colombia's all-important textile sector

Exports surged in the 1990s as the United States granted temporary trade preferences to Colombia, allowing many of its products to enter the world's largest market duty-free. They really took off after 2002, when Washington expanded that agreement to include Colombia's all-important textile sector. New assembly lines making Ralph Lauren socks and Levi's jeans sprouted up across this picturesque Andean valley, creating tens of thousands of jobs and turning Medellín into a model of the curative power of liberalized trade. [Seattle Times]


Colombia's export revolution began with flowers. Many Medellín residents, including Luz Dari Garcia, 20, work in the flower business. Colombian flowers make up roughly 90 percent of all those sold in the United States.

SUPPORT COLOMBIAN EXPORTS: Shop for clothing apparel at TARGET. Also, why not buy flowers for that special someone in your life.

The Tranformation Of Medellin Video