By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) At about one-hour drive north of Lisbon, the town of Tomar occupies a special place in the history of Portugal and the world. Built inside the walls of the Castle of Tomar, one of the finest examples of 12th Century military architecture, the original medieval town was established in 1159 on […]
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Travel: Tomar’s remarkable place in World History – Portugal
Posted on 26 February 2013.
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Community: Portuguese abroad to stage protest in solidarity with people back home – Boston, MA
Posted on 26 February 2013.
Members of the Portuguese community are gathering outside the Boston Public Library, Saturday, March 2, at 6 pm, in solidarity with people back home, to protest against the severe austerity measures being implemented by Portugal’s center-right government led by Prime Minister Passos Coelho. Protesters in Boston are joining a day of demonstrations which will also […]
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Book: The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto – Editor’s Note
Posted on 26 February 2013.
The eighth novel by The New York Times acclaimed Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences, is the story of Mwanito’s, an African boy’s quest for the truth, struggling to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman’s arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks […]
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MLA: Portuguese is the 12th most spoken language in the United States – Community
Posted on 25 February 2013.
According to the Modern Languages Association (MLA) Language Map, Portuguese is the 12th most spoken language the United States, spoken by 564,630 people after Spanish (28,101,052), Chinese (2,022,143), French (1,643,838), German (1,383,442), Tagalog (1,224,241), Vietnamese (1,009,623), Italian (1,008,370), Korean (894,063), Russian (706,242), Polish (667,414), and Arabic (614,587). Based on the US Census 2000, the MLA […]
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Fado: Ana Moura’s 2013 North American concert tour – USA
Posted on 23 February 2013.
Portuguese fado vocalist, Ana Moura, is launching her 2013 North American concert tour, on February 28, with a number of concerts scheduled coast to coast in the United States and Canada. The tour is a promotion of her most recent issued CD titled “Desfado” for sale on February 26, 2013. Moura, who has toured the […]
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Arts: Nathan Oliveira to be memorialized at Stanford University – California
Posted on 22 February 2013.
The late Portuguese-American artist, Nathan Oliveira, will be memorialized at Stanford University with the creation of the Windhover Contemplative Center. The new center will display four large oil paintings of Oliveira’s Windhover series inspired by birds in flight. Oliveira began working on the series in the 1970s, which took a lifetime of art to complete. […]
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