wednesday night makeover marks the first big party night of the week - as many of the bars and clubs in the city wake up from their two-day slumber, music and dancing takes a grip of rio once again.

to get the city back in the partying mood, many clubs adopt theme nights on wednesdays, hip-hop nights being particularly popular - funk, upstairs lounge club, barzin, in  ipanema, has an especially renowned hip-hop night, while underground club, fosfobox, in copacabana, starts its hip-hop night early.