The February 2013 catalogue of the upscale women’s apparel retail chain Anthropologie is featuring a new line of clothing design inspired by Portuguese themes and styles, with images captured on site in Portugal (view slide show). Throughout the whole Spring collection, the discriminating fashionista will find a profusion of Portuguese suggestive motifs, details and textures. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Anthropologie […]
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Style: Upscale Anthropologie clothing captures Portuguese pizzazz – Fashion
Posted on 14 February 2013.
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Kleztival: Brazil’s Great Jewish Musical Event – Report
Posted on 14 February 2013.
By Richard Simas,Contributor (*) Mix traditional Eastern European Klezmer tunes such as bulgaryas, freylaks, horas, and niguns with strains of samba, salsa, and tango, and you have Jewish music, South American style. Add Berber sounds from the deserts, new-jazz inflected original compositions from Israel and Brooklyn, a cumbia style dance-band, and Brazilian choirs and you […]
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Book: Alves & Co. and Other Stories by Eça de Queiroz – Editor’s Note
Posted on 13 February 2013.
Eça de Queiroz is considered to be Portugal’s greatest novelist. Dedalus has embarked on a project of making all his major works available in English in new translations by Margaret Jull Costa. In this volume, comprising one short novel and six short stories, the reader is introduced to a dazzling variety of worlds and characters: a […]
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Film: Bernardo Cabral awarded at the Script International Short Film Festival – India
Posted on 13 February 2013.
Azorean-Portuguese film director, Manuel Bernardo Cabral, was awarded second place at the third edition of the Script International Short Film Festival, for the short film titled “50 pesos argentinos.” The festival took place February 8-9 in Kochi, Kerala (India). The film, entirely shot on São Miguel island, is based on a short story by Azorean […]
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Arts: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide now in Portuguese – NYC
Posted on 12 February 2013.
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has just issued the first Portuguese language edition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, as part of a project which has “reconceived and written” the Museum’s own guidebook in nearly thirty years. Besides the Portuguese language edition, the new guide was also issued in Chinese, French, Italian, […]
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Appointed: Charles Sousa sworn Finance Minister of Ontario – Canada
Posted on 12 February 2013.
Portuguese-Canadian career politian, Charles Sousa, 54, was appointed Ontario’s new Finance Minister by Ontario’s 25th new elected Premier, Kathleen Wynne, the Canadian press reported Monday. Sousa, a two-term Mississauga South MPP and former bank executive, will inherit a treasure deficit estimated at $11.9 billion. Sousa, the former Citizen and Immigration Minister, was the MPP for […]
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