24 August 2015
The Portuguese American community of Fall River, MA, is celebrating the 29th Holy Ghost Festival of New England opening Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30. Thousands of people from all over the United States, Canada, Portugal mainland, Azores and Bermuda are expected to attend. The festival starts in Kennedy Park, on Wednesday, at 5pm, […]
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20 August 2015
TAP Air Portugal(*) is offering weekly flights between Boston and Lisbon, via Ponta Delgada, Azores. TAP flight 6505 is currently serving routes from Boston to Ponta Delgada and Ponta Delgada to Lisbon. The flight is departing four times per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday). TAP Air Portugal, formerly owned and run by the government of […]
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18 August 2015
Clarice Lispector’s The Complete Stories, 85 in all, are an epiphany, among the important books of this — or any — year. The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Brazil, Featured, People
17 August 2015
Azores based underwater photographer, Nuno Sá, was selected to produce the new ‘BBC Oceans’ series for the next two years. The series will be released in 2017. Nuno Sá will work with German drone team Visualmondo which will secure shots from the air. The team will be filming sequences of whales, sharks, mobula rays and […]
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13 August 2015
By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) A former accountant, gun store owner, and firearms instructor turned blockbuster novelist, Portuguese-American author Larry Correia is perhaps one of the most fascinating writers in the fantasy/sci fi genre. Born in Central California to a Portuguese dairy farmer, Correia spent his early years on the family farm in El […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, São Jorge, Terceira
12 August 2015
The Bishop of Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores, António Sousa Braga, revealed today that he intends to invite Pope Francis to visit the archipelago as part of the announced papal visit to mainland Portugal, in 2017, to participate in the 100th anniversary of the Marian Apparitions in Cova da Iria, Fatima. If Pope Francis accepts the […]
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