Camille Cusumano

Buy signed copies of Tango, an Argentina Love Story or The Last Cannoli.

$15 per book, shipping and handling included. Please email your mailing address to me after you have paid: ocaramia@me.com. Allow seven to ten days for delivery. Special, overnight delivery is available upon request, for added cost. Email your request: ocaramia@me.com.

You may also pay by check. Mail to: Camille Cusumano, P.O. Box 475099, San Francisco, CA 94147. Be sure to include your mailing address, specify how many copies of each book, and to whom you wish the books dedicated.

number of copies

one copy $15.00 two copies $30.00 three copies $45.00 four copies $60.00

You may have heard me say before that Buenos Aires is in some ways the Paris of the 1920s, a Paris largely lost. In her photos, Alicia Lilo, an award-winning Porteña photographer whose work you may have seen at Museo de la Ciudad, evokes for me that Paris that I caught glimpses of in 1971.

To me it was thrilling to live in Buenos Aires and have these cafes and bars with old wood and brass and the added enchantment of the tango culture.

“Sensuous, moody, dramatic, ponderous, silent, Alicia’s black & white photographs of Buenos Aires evoke and illuminate this city we all love in a new light,” says art critic Oga Cho.

You can contact Alicia directly about her work and about purchasing it.

Alicia Lilo - alicialilocircus@yahoo.com.ar

Hey, I’ll be helping out at Christy Cote’s tango classes through March and April.

Please comes for some of the best instruction and smilingest dancers in town!

Tuesdays, starting March 1:

At the old Metronome on 17th St. near DeHaro

7pm to 8pm – Beginners

8pm to 9pm – Intermediate

9pm til midnight – practica (only $5 for the practica)

Visit www.christycote.com or www.tangomango.org for more prices, details

For individuals ($100 per hour) or groups – fee negotiable. Call 415-425-6515 or email:

ocaramia@earthlink.net. Work in creative non-fiction, essay, memoir, magazine features, books or fiction.

Throughout the month, private ($60 per hour for one or two persons) or group – fee negotiable.

Call 415-425-6515 or email me at ocaramia@earthlink.net

Portland has some of the best tango dancing outside of Buenos Aires. This annual festival promises to deliver great classes, workshops, and milongas. I will offering a lecture:

The Joy of Living in Buenos Aires; How to Follow That Passion

My talk will be inspiring and interactive—bring questions. It’s on Friday, February 11, 2011, 4:30 to 5:30 pm in Norse Hall. I’ll also be selling and signing my book, TANGO, AN ARGENTINE LOVE STORY.

For more details on this great fest, visit Valentango.

At a cocktail reception and  award ceremony with Mike Rayburn entertaining.

Wells Fargo recognized me and three other Californians for doing something different and impressive—for following our passions—after age 50.

Who says quitting your day job is not advisable? I did so in 2005 when I fell head over stiletto heels in love with tango and went to live in Buenos Aires. Now I’m being rewarded by WF with a sum of cash and a party for 100 of my friends and family.

We are called Second-Half Champions.

The event took place on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 in Walnut Creek, CA at:

Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94596

Join Christy Cote & Chelsea Eng for *CITA 2011
in Buenos Aires, Argentina!
*Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino

MAR 12-20, 2011

Many of you have asked if I’m leading another trip to Buenos Aires. Since I am throwing myself into writing and teaching at home, here in San Francisco, I’d like to highly recommend a trip to Buenos Aires for tango lovers with two of my favorite teachers, Christy Cote and Chelsea Eng, this coming March. Please visit Chelsea’s site for details and to register.