09 December 2021
The Ilhas Selvagens Nature Reserve, located south of Madeira archipelago, now extends its total protection status from 95 km2 to 2,677 km2, making it the largest in Europe and the entire North Atlantic, and one of the world’s best-preserved ecological treasures. Created 50 years ago, and endorsed by a new legal framework, the ecological reserve […]
08 December 2021
Zachary Cunha has been appointed as the next U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island. The appointment was approved by the United States Senate Tuesday night. Cunha is currently the chief of the Civil Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island. He joined the office in 2014. He will be replacing Aaron […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal
07 December 2021
The film, The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020), by Portuguese director Catarina Vasconcelos, is among the 93 films, selected by the Hollywood Academy, to be included in the official list of candidates for the 2022 Oscar nomination for Best International Film. The film, which has won several international prestigious awards was nominated by the Portuguese Academy […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Featured, Film, People, Portugal, World
06 December 2021
The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has placed Portugal at level four, the highest alert given for “very high risk” of COVID’19 for travelers. The CDC alert, issued on Monday, warns that, “Due to the current situation in Portugal, even those with full vaccinations may be at risk of being contaminated […]
03 December 2021
The Mesa International Film Festival partnered with New York-based Public Relations boutique Plusable, to introduce a section dedicated to Portuguese talent under the theme “From Portugal with Love“, and the result is a full day screening composed of 19 Portuguese and Portuguese-American directors. Amongst the short films, there will be two documentaries and two music […]
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03 December 2021
An undisputed giant of twentieth-century Portuguese letters, writer and literary critic Jorge de Sena (1919–1978) spent the most productive decades of his life away from Portugal, teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the essays gathered in this collection, George Monteiro deftly weaves together his readings of Sena’s […]
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