If you read Made In Brazil on a regular basis, you may have seen pictures of the Glow party in Brasília, which started four years ago and is now one of the most talked about parties in the country's capital. This week the boys behind the party are unveiling their latest project, Glow Lounge. The space, which is part of the Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo or  Ecco complex, will operate as a mix of restaurant, bar, and nightclub.

Starting on Monday, April 25, Glow Lounge will be serving lunch from Mondays to Saturdays, and will serve as a bar during the evenings, with a special selection of drinks and appetizers. On Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, the dancefloor will be open and the space will turn into a nightclub, hosting the city's best DJs.

Glow Lounge opens to the public tonight. Knowing how extremely competent the guys behind the project are, I would certainly recommend checking out the place if you are in Brasília.

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• Topshop is in talks with Iguatemi to open its first store in the country in São Paulo. According to Chic, the first Topshop store in Brazil could open as early as November of this year, but the exact location and opening date have not yet been confirmed. Now let's hope that the prices in reais will be equivalent to the prices in dollars.
• New York magazine puts spring's football shoulders to the test.
• São Paulo's Sonique gets a nod from Wallpaper.
• Brad Goreski and Terry Richardson.
• Rihanna is the new Slash.
• Francisco Lachowski for DKNY fall 2010.
• More of Francisco Lachowski and Max Motta in Made In Brazil Magazine #1.
• There is a little interview with me in the current issue of Attitude. Make sure to check it out.
• DJ Felipe Lira came up with a new continuous mix called Houselicious. It is a good warm up for Gay Pride in São Paulo next week. Download it here.

• Guisela Rhein and Leo Peixoto for Água de Coco.
• Newcomer Janete Friedrich photographed by Greg Lotus for the new Vogue Italia.
• An interview with model Saulo Melo.
• Karl Lagerfeld shoots Baptiste Giacobini (in heels of course) for Purple Fashion magazine #12.
• Fall's craziest (and highest) shoes are put to the test in the streets of New York.
• Brazilian candidate to Miss Universe Larissa Costa tries to speak English (and fails) in an interview.
• Watch the trailer for the upcoming series Spartacus Sand And Blood. 
• São Paulo's The Week and Rio's Le Boy made it to Out magazine's list of the 60 greatest gay bars in the world.
• Is Florianópolis becoming the next Silicon Valley?
• The next edition of the Brazilian all-gay cruise Freedom On Board has already been scheduled for February 5 of next year. The cruise will leave from Santos, and head to Buzios and Ilhabela for three days of non-stop parties. 

I used to complain that there were no cool bars or lounges in São Paulo, but I take that back after this past weekend. On Saturday night I went to Sonique for a friend's birthday, and it is everything I have been asking for in São Paulo: a place with impeccable design and great music that I can go to with friends for a drink or two after dinner at 11ish, and be done by 2. If you live in a city like New York, that may seem like the norm, but much of São Paulo's traditional bar culture revolves around draft beer and appetizers on a sidewalk bar in the late afternoon, and the city's nightlife is all about big clubs which you should not even attempt to go to before at least 1 am. Sonique may just be the antidote for that.

Opened since February (don't even ask me why I had not been there yet), Sonique was designed by the much hyped French-Brazilian architects Triptyque, and its decor alone would be worth a trip there. The crowd is mixed, 40% straight 60% gay, and pretty cute. And btw, a new gay party will take over the space on Sunday afternoons starting August 9.

Sonique is located at Rua Bela Cintra, 461.

Picture blatantly stolen from Duda Bairros' Flickr.