20 December 2019
Richard Mayson first visited Portugal as a child, nearly fifty years ago. He immediately fell in love with the country, living there and revisiting it many times over the ensuing half century. During those years Portugal has changed greatly, as have its wines. The cooperatives and wine merchants of the 1970s produced patriotically Portuguese blended […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Food & Wine, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, World
19 December 2019
Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, is pleased to announce that George Monteiro’s 2019 translation of Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World by Pedro da Silveira has been longlisted for the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Founded in 1996, the award […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People
17 December 2019
In a prepared statement, SATA Air Azores has confirmed that the company’s Aircraft Maintenance Technicians will be on full strike December 21, 22 and 23. The Aircraft Maintenance Technicians have been on partial strike since October 28, while negotiations have been held in an attempt to bringing the parties to an agreement. However, “In the […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Corvo, Faial, Featured, Flores, Graciosa, Organizations, People, Pico, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Jorge, São Miguel, Terceira, Travel, World
16 December 2019
The Arte Institute has announced the 10th Edition of the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival (NYPSFF), scheduled for screenings in New York, in May 2020, at the Lincoln Center and Tribeca Film Center. Submissions are welcome until March 1, 2020. The first Portuguese film festival in the United States, since 2011 the NYPSFF has had […]
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14 December 2019
As we gear up for the new century’s roaring 20’s, it’s time to celebrate the winter season. And, as a contributor to the Portuguese American Journal, I am only too delighted to present a small and perhaps quirky selection of holiday gift book ideas, by Portuguese-American and Portuguese writers (mostly in English) but some bilingual […]
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10 December 2019
By Len Port Latest estimates warn that many coastal cities, towns, villages and resorts in mainland Portugal are likely to become increasingly vulnerable to flooding or total destruction by sea levels that are rising far faster than expected. The latest evaluation of data on rising sea levels has tripled previous estimates of vulnerability in coastal […]
