Posted on 26 September 2011. Tags: Book Review, Cain, Harvill Secker, John Howard Wolf, Jose Saramago, London, Nobel Prize Literature
By John Howard Wolf — Pace, pace, literary critics, comrades, general readers, et al. This book*, purportedly written in a short four months near the author´s end, seems to have been done in a “trance” as has been said. Seen in the context of his symphonic literary output, this is merely the coda consisting of repeated […]
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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, People
Posted on 26 September 2011. Tags: California, documentary, film, Life on the Douro, November 2011, Porto, Portugal Portuguese, wine, Zev Robinson
The documentary “Life on the Douro,” produced and directed by Zev Robinson, was released in the United States and will be shown in California in mid-November, including Los Angeles on November 15 and San Francisco on November 17, 2011. The screenings are followed by wine tastings and seminars. The 90 minute film documents about 300 […]
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Posted in Entertainment, Featured, Film, Food & Wine, Heritage
Posted on 25 September 2011. Tags: Angola, Carlos Silva, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, JURA UNITA, Luanda, Mfuca Muzemba, MPLA, Police, protesters, youth demonstration
Police stopped 100 demonstrators in Luanda, Sunday, protesting against President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ 32 years of autocratic rule. The Portuguese news agency Lusa reported that protesters were pushed back by the police when they planned to march from Luanda’s Santana Cemetery to Independence Square. No arrests were made. Previous protests in Luanda, on September […]
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Posted in Angola, Politics, World
Posted on 25 September 2011. Tags: Bank of Portugal, interest 6%, Portugal. Portuguese banks, saving accounts
Some Portuguese banks are offering 6% interest on savings accounts as a way of attracting new customers. The measure is a reaction against the limitations Portuguese banks are facing in obtaining outside financing. The interest rates offered are the highest since 2008. Portuguese banks have been shut out of the interbank funding market for more […]
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Posted on 24 September 2011. Tags: New Jersey, Newark, NJ, Passos Coelho, Portuguese, Portuguese Americans, Portuguese Sport Club, Prime Minister
Portugal’s Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, met Friday with representatives from the Portuguese American community of Newark, NJ, at the Portuguese Sport Club, on his first official visit to the United States. Addressing a crowd of over 200, Passos Coelho asked them to believe in Portugal and to invest in their country of origin. Affirming […]
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Posted in Community, Heritage, People, Politics
Posted on 23 September 2011.
News that the Department of State is considering closing the American Consulate in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, in the Azores, was met with apprehension by the Portuguese American community of Azorean descent. On a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Congressional Portuguese American Caucus Members, Rep. Dennis Cardoza (Co-Chair), Rep. David Cicilline, Rep. Jim […]
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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, São Miguel