25 April 2016
Portuguese Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist, Nelly Furtado, will be the recipient of the 2016 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. The award recognizes her social activism and support of humanitarian causes. The award will be presented at the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards gala to be held on Thursday, May 5, at The […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, São Miguel
24 April 2016
The least known of the great European Modernist poets of the twentieth century, Fernando Pessoa was born in 1888. A virtuoso of poetic voices, he created a coterie of distinct heteronyms, individual voices for whom he created full biographies and full bodies of work that were not only distinctive and original but so distinguished that […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured
22 April 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) As Portugal, other EU members and even the United States wait with bated breath, it seems that Britain’s referendum on staying or leaving is likely to go down to the wire. The expatriate vote could be decisive, it is said. But does anyone have any idea how many expatriates are […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Life Style, Portugal, World
20 April 2016
Interviews by Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) The International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA) is back April 23, at the Zeiterion Theater, in New Bedford, MA, along with a gala red-carpet event the night before (at the Cultural Center in Fall River). Established in 2013, the IPMA has grown to be a premier music award, in both […]
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20 April 2016
The President of the Government of the Azores, Vasco Cordeiro, was received today at the Vatican by Pope Francis to formally invite His Holiness to visit the Azores next year. The meeting was held in St. Peter’s Square during the greetings meeting between the Pope and guests, after the end of the papal weekly public […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion, Terceira, World
19 April 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Gonçalo Amaral has won his appeal against a Lisbon court’s decision last year to award half a million euros in damages to Kate and Gerry McCann. The award arose from the McCanns’ objection to Amaral’s book Maddie: The Truth of the Lie published in 2008. The overturning of the damages […]
Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal
