Boedo is on the cusp of being cool. A crop of new cafes and stores celebrating the arts have recently emerged as fixtures along the avenue for which the barrio is named. However, while the press has begun to take note, the tourist population still remains largely ignorant of these new ventures inside and around this area defined by avenidas Independencia and San Juan, around the 4000 mark.

From the sizzling flourescent light saber clashes to the metallic wheezing of Darth Vader’s grated breath what’s not to love about ‘Star Wars’? For those whose life would not have been complete without ever hearing Chewbacca’s moans, or for those whose prepubescent fantasies revolved around Princess Laya, look no further than Centro Cultural Recoleta!

The Argentine director and actor Fernando Ferrer had a vagabond school career. Next to his home country, he studied in Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Holland, Germany and Spain. That made him base his works on internationality. So is his new creation Taranto. The play was written in Denmark and deals with a crime that happened in Sweden but was discovered in Buenos Aires.

Surrounded by packets of homemade cookies and Tia Maria poured into recycled bottles, Alberto Censi, 68, peers up from checking his accounts to look around for any potential buyers. Although he is counting pink, blue and yellow paper notes, do not mistake this for Monopoly money.