Words by Matt Dursum Photos by Samantha Demangate It’s a drizzly Friday afternoon in Buenos Aires. The rain and breeze offer a brief relief from the searing summer heat. This abnormally cool day is perfect for a craft beer tour. Joining me are my friends from the U.K. and my girlfriend. My Argentine friends wanted nothing to do with this, claiming unanimously that drinking anything but ice cold Vermouth or Fernet and Cola during this…
Photography by Samantha Demangate Polo, parks, gardens, and high-rise apartments are what many first-time visitors to Buenos Aires associate with the Palermo neighborhood. In reality, Palermo is all of this, and so much more. Palermo is the largest of Buenos Aires’s 48 neighborhoods. The once sleepy, middle-class barrio became riddled with creative entrepreneurs, entertainers, restaurateurs, baristas, and other individuals, art collectives, and businesses that bolstered its ascension into hipsterdom. Like every other corner of Buenos…