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Pop Music: Nelly Furtado launching new single – Hoops!

Portuguese Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, 33,  is launching her new video and  single “The Spirit Indestructible”  featuring the hit song “Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)” considered to be different from everything else she has produced in the last 12 years. The album is being released six years since the singer launched her multi-platinium Loose. The video […]

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BNP: Research Fellowship Program for American scholars – Portugal

The National Library of Portugal (Biblioteca National de Portugal – BNP), based in Lisbon, in partnership with the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), also based in Lisbon, is sponsoring the 2012 short term Research Fellowship Program aimed at American scholars interested in conducting research at the National Library archives. The National Library Research Fellowships, for at […]

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Music: Composer Bernardo Sassetti dead at age 41 – Portugal

Portuguese jazz pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti, 41, died Thursday in an apparent accident while hiking in Guincho, near Lisbon. He was allegedly shooting pictures when he took the fatal fall. Sassetti, considered to be one of the most talented jazz musicians of his generation, was born in Lisbon where he learned to play the […]

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Memoir: Phil Jourdan’s “Praise of Motherhood” and the Challenge of Grieving – Interview

By Kathi Stafford ♦ Phil Jourdan is a musician, translator, and fiction writer originally from Portugal.  He now lives in the UK, where he is completing work on a doctorate at Warwick University.  His new book, Praise of Motherhood, is a heartbreaking look at the loss of his mother Sophia to an unexpected brain aneurysm.  The […]

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Fashion: Portuguese designers do Barbie’s new wardrobe – Portugal

Portuguese fashion designers for ready-to-were Lanidor Group have created new outfits for the Barbie doll. They joined the list of 70 fashion designers worldwide who have in the past created outfits for the fashionista Barbie. Three Lanidor’s designers were invited to create three new trendy outfits for the fashion sensation doll: one “casual,” one party-going style […]

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Travel Alert: SATA calls off weekend strike TAP stages slowdown – Update

TAP Air Portugal has canceled about 30 flights to and from domestic and Western European destinations on Friday, May 11, due to the planned start of a five-day series of partial air controller strikes. The national flag carrier airliner announced on its web site, late Wednesday, that it was contacting all passengers to find flight […]

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