Ladies Night Out — Tuesday, May 24

This popular meeting will be held at the bar in the lovely Grand Hotel in Recoleta. BAIN will provide light appetizers and finger food, and members and guests can purchase drinks from the extensive bar menu.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge

Guests – 50 pesos*

*If you join BAIN Downtown at the meeting, your guest fee is waived. The fee to join BAIN for one year’s membership is 300 pesos.

Monthly Social Meeting — Friday, March 25

Posted on March 11, 2016 by tq

BAIN Downtown members and guests are invited to join in the March social get-together. This popular meeting will be held at a NEW VENUE this month: The lovely Grand Hotel in Recoleta.

The event will start at 6 p.m. BAIN will provide light appetizers and finger food, and members and guests can purchase drinks from the extensive bar menu.

Location: The bar in the Grand Hotel in Recoleta, Las Heras 1745

Date and Time: Friday, March 25, beginning at 6 p.m.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge

Guests – 50 pesos*

*If you join BAIN Downtown at the meeting, your guest fee is waived. The fee to join BAIN for one year’s membership is 300 pesos.

(No RSVP is needed for this event)

March Wine and Tapas — Saturday, March 19

Posted on March 11, 2016 by tq

Send your RSVP to jisaacs61@hotmail.com

Please join BAIN Downtown for an evening of wine, tapas, and friendly conversation.

Location: Palermo – Exact address provided upon RSVP

Time: 8:00 p.m.

How does it work? Bring wine, finger food, and your sparkling self to join other BAIN members in a night of socializing and making new friends. We look forward to catching up with you!

Please RSVP to jisaacs61@hotmail.com

The address will be sent to you via email response.

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New to Buenos Aires? New to BAIN Downtown, or is this your first Wine & Tapas? It’s easier than you think! One of our members has graciously opened their doors to create a social environment for any BAIN member interested in attending.

If you are interested in becoming one of these fabulous hosts or if you have any questions about the event, please contact Angela Restrepo: stila3107@yahoo.com

· This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members only, and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com

· Wine & Tapas is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.

Dinner — March 17

Posted on March 5, 2016 by tq

Please RSVP to Jorge Jakimczuk at jorgejak@sion.com

Join us for our BAIN Downtown March dinner, this time with fabulous Italian food at the Ristorante Bella Italia.

Where: Ristorante Bella Italia, Republica Arabe Siria 3285 in Palermo

When: Thursday, March 17 at 8 p.m.

Cost: 470 pesos in cash (wine and tip are not included)

March Morning Coffee — March 18

Posted on February 25, 2016 by tq

Come join us for a Morning Coffee!

For this social event, please bring food of your choice. Be creative! This might include:

Fresh fruit
Fresh vegetables with dip
Deviled eggs
Sliced apples with dulce de leche
Picada (small squares of ham or turkey and cheese)
Medialunas from your local bakery
Other baked goods

Your host will provide the venue and coffee.

Location: The home of Ricardo Hadis in La Imprenta, Belgrano
(You will receive the address after you send your RSVP.)

Date and Time: Friday, March 18 from 10.30 until noon

RSVP: Ricardo Hadis at richadis@myfastmail.com

Please note: The Morning Coffee is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance.

This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com.

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January Book Group — Address Update

Posted on January 2, 2016 by tq

For January, we chose The Harder They Come by TC Boyle.

Please note if there is still strong interest in reading My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgard, we will take that into consideration. Please email me (jendan@gmail.com) with your thoughts on My Struggle and we will make a decision about whether it will be the book for our book group.

As always, please email Jennifer (jendan@gmail.com) with any ideas you have for future book clubs.

Next meeting of the book club:

Date: January 12, 2016

Time: 3:30 pm

Location: Libros del Pasaje, Thames 1762

RSVP: Toni Quintana at tonilin@aol.com

January 12, 2016

The Harder They Come by TC Boyle

Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people—an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son’s paranoid, much older lover—as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.

On a vacation cruise to Central America with his wife, seventy-year-old Sten Stensen unflinchingly kills a gun-wielding robber menacing a busload of senior tourists. The reluctant hero is relieved to return home to Fort Bragg, California, after the ordeal—only to find that his delusional son, Adam, has spiraled out of control.

Adam has entered a relationship with a much older woman who is a right-wing anarchist. As Adam becomes increasinly unstable, he kills two people and then runs into the woods resulting in the largest manhunt in California history.

As he explores a father’s legacy of violence and his powerlessness in relating to his equally violent son, T. C. Boyle offers unparalleled psychological insights into the American psyche. Inspired by a true story, The Harder They Come is a devastating and indelible novel from a modern master.

Empire by Niall Ferguson

February 16, 2016

The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarter of the world’s land surface was under some form of British rule. Yet for today’s generation, the British Empire seems a Victorian irrelevance. The time is ripe for a reappraisal, and in Empire, Niall Ferguson boldly recasts the British Empire as one of the world’s greatest modernizing forces. An important new work of synthesis and revision, Empire argues that the world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain’s Age of Empire. The spread of capitalism, the communications revolution, the notion of humanitarianism, and the institutions of parliamentary democracy-all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain’s economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity. Displaying the originality and rigor that have made him the brightest light among British historians, Ferguson shows that the story of the Empire is pregnant with lessons for today-in particular for the United States as it stands on the brink of a new era of imperial power, based once again on economic and military supremacy. A dazzling tour de force, Empire is a remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls of global empire.

Ladies’ Night Out — Tuesday, August 18

Posted on August 11, 2015 by tq

This month we will visit Singapur Lounge Bar, a fantastic bar in Retiro/Recoleta with a modern atmosphere and amazing cocktails!

Price: 280 pesos including tip

Address: Posadas 1029, La Recova

Date: Tuesday, August 18th – 19h00 – 21h00

Includes:

Picada (mixed bruschettas + chicken in alioli sauce)

One water or soft drink + one welcome drink + one glass of wine OR

one water or soft drink + one cocktail

Please RSVP to silporta@hotmail.com

Morning Coffee — July 14 — 10:30 am

Posted on June 25, 2015 by tq

Bring food of your choice to share — medialunas purchased at your local bakery, homemade coffee cake – or anything in between. Our BAIN host will provide coffee, etc.

Good company and great conversation. Meet with old friends and make new ones.

Location: Wendy Huebner’s in Balvanera (You will receive the address after you send your RSVP.)

Date and Time: Tuesday – July 14

from 10.30 until noon

Please RSVP to: Wendy Huebner wlhuebner@hotmail.com

**The Morning Coffee is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.

**This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contactbain.downtown@gmail.com

July Book Group — Tuesday, July 7 at 3:30 pm

Posted on June 21, 2015 by tq

Join us at Manhattan Club Grand Cafe to discuss The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. Even if you haven’t managed to read the book, we welcome you to join us for coffee and more.

You might want to buy a copy of Picaflor (August book) at the July meeting — AR$80 or AR$120.

Date: July 7

Time: 3:30 pm

Location: Manhattan Club Grand Cafe, Ave Cabildo 1792 (corner with La Pampa)

RSVP: tonilin@aol.com

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction , two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Future Book Choices

Please note that we are working with the author of Picaflor to see if she will attend our book club. She is offering the book for AR$80 or 120. If you would like to buy a copy, please contact tonilin@aol.com and we will arrange.

Next Meetings:

Tuesday, August 4

Picaflor: Finding Home in South America by Jessica Talbot

In Picaflor, a true story, Jessica Talbot invites the reader to travel beside her as she searches for love and meaning, while traversing the fascinating countries of South America. Along the way she lets go of grief, grasps hold of the present and finds herself occupying her own weather beaten shoes.

When unexpected signs appear on her path she asks, ‘Is this serendipity or fate?’ As the journey unfolds she realises that you don’t need to know, it can be magical either way.

The story starts with Jessica getting a tattoo of a hummingbird, a reminder of new beginnings. Then a kiss at sunrise in the snow-dusted Andes of Peru sends her on a restless, risky journey that ends in Argentina. As she travels through unknown terrain, new friends give her important insights into the meaning of friendship, and old ties strengthen as she frees herself from the past. It’s in the exhilarating but complicated city of Buenos Aires that she finally understands what it means to feel ‘home’.

September

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…..

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released (suffering from psychosis?) and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. Through these characters, among others, the story shows the plight of the peasantry leading up to the French Revolution and then the subsequent brutality of the revolutionaries in the early years of the revolution. The story also tries to highlight the parellels between French and British society.

Please forward any suggestions you have for future reads to jendan@gmail.com.