11 February 2016
By Richard Simas,Contributor (*) What a fascinating read and visual feast is anthropologist Anthony Alan Shelton’s Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between, an exquisite photo album and collection of essays on Portuguese popular art. The book is a companion piece for the 2015 major exhibition curated by Shelton at the University of British Columbia’s Museum […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Painting, Portugal, Travel
10 February 2016
The Cella Bar & Restaurant, built in the Madalena town of Pico island, is the winner of the 2016 ArchDaily Building of the Year Award for the Hospitality Architecture Category. Built in 2015, over the remains of an old abandoned wine warehouse, the Cella Bar & Retaurant is the creation of architect Paulo Lobo, a […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Pico, Portugal, World
09 February 2016
On February 2, 2016, Portuguese American Roman Catholic prelate, Steven Joseph Lopes, 40, was consecrated a Bishop in Houston, Texas, and took up his appointment as prelate of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. The Ordinariates were created as the Vatican’s pastoral response to repeated […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion, World
06 February 2016
This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as privately owned slaves and later as conscript workers. The colony was […]
Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Politics, Portugal
04 February 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Portugal wants Britain to stay in the European Union, but while the new Socialist government will listen to Prime Minister David Cameron’s requests for EU reforms, certain demands would be beyond the pale. “Our position is very simple,” said Portugal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, this week. “We […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
02 February 2016
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, People, Portugal, Travel
