The Azores based airline ‘SATA International’ has changed its brand name to ‘Azores Airlines’ and has unveiled a new livery. As part of the move, SATA has leased two A-330 aircraft, which display the new name, a blue sperm whale on each side, and a green whale tail on the its tail. The first of […]
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Travel: SATA completes rebranding with extreme makeover – Azores
Posted on 21 October 2015.
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Book: ‘Authentic Portuguese Cooking’ by Ana Patuleia Ortins – Editor’s Note
Posted on 20 October 2015.
An Encyclopedic Collection of Recipes from One of the World’s Most Cherished Food Cultures Ana Patuleia Ortins will help you travel to and experience the unique paradise of Portugal without setting foot on a plane. Portugal is known for its cuisine that while mild in spice, is rich in flavor. As the authority on Portuguese […]
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Book: ‘Now and at the Hour of our Death’ by Susana Marques – Editor’s Note
Posted on 19 October 2015.
A journalist with a poet’s sensibility, a poet with a journalist’s clear eye, Susana Moreira Marques succeeds in creating a whole new kind of book about the lives of people dying and their families. The author finds herself in Trás-os-Montes, a rural region in northeastern Portugal. She is there to accompany a palliative care team […]
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Crisis: Two weeks after general election some help from outer space? – Portugal
Posted on 16 October 2015.
By Len Port, Contributor (*) More than two weeks after the general election, Portugal will still be in the awkward position of not knowing who is to form the next government. How much easier it would have been if a group of extraterrestrials had landed last week. They would have provided a handy solution to […]
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Book: ‘Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 15 October 2015.
In 2004, a conference was held at King’s College London to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Boxer. The theme of the conference was the development of the culturally mixed ‘Portuguese’ societies in Asia, Africa and America, which reflected Boxer’s own interest in the social history of Portugal’s overseas empire. Although the conference […]
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Book: ‘Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between’ Portuguese Popular Art – Editor’s Note
Posted on 13 October 2015.
Popular art expresses the passion and verve emanating from the rich imagination and the social, political and religious experiences of its creators. In Portugal, this art of the people also conveys deeply seated, idealistic views of national identity, history and character. Much Portuguese popular art focuses on three amorphous places: Heaven (the world of the […]
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