This story comes from the Queens Gazette of New York City, where Mario Espindola has named his Brazilian restaurant after the berimbau, the central instrument of capoeira. Unfortunately, the article leaves much to be desired and contains no actual information on the restaurant itself. For those interested in checking out Mario’s eatery, a Google search yielded this website, presumably for his restaurant, located in the West Village of Manhattan.

It seems like every other day, we hear about another capoeira group that is flourishing in their own corner of the world. It’s great to see them get local or even national news coverage, which can only benefit the group and help it reach more people. Earlier this week, a local news outlet in Bournemouth, England posted a story on Origens do Brasil, a capoeira group that has been alive and well in Bournemouth for many years.

Detroit Brooks, age 67, of San Diego, CA just began his career as a capoeirista. He’s showing his fellow students, community, and the world something a lot of capoeiristas already know: capoeira knows no age limits.

Any dedicated capoeirista could tell you their personal story about how capoeira has offered them something that nothing else was able to – be it expression, escape, or companionship. However, not everyone can claim to have found the kind of salvation it offers to many boys in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a joint effort by UNICEF, the Congolese NGO Concert d’Actions pour Jeunes et Enfants Défavorisés, and the Brazilian Embassy has brought capoeira to…