19 June 2015
The traditional ‘Sanjoaninas Festival’ is taking place on Terceira Island, from June 19-27, attracting thousands of visitors to Angra do Heroísmo city listed (1984) by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. Under the theme “Angra, memória dos meus encantos” [Angra, the allure of remembrance] the 2015 Sanjoaninas Festival honors the legacy of the many thousands […]
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18 June 2015
Guest editor, Bruno Carvalho, affiliated with Princeton University, has issued a call for papers for the next volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (PLCS) focusing on historical, literary and cultural aspects of the Portuguese-speaking world in the eighteenth century. The Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies is an online, peer-reviewed journal published by Tagus Press […]
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16 June 2015
A team of 10 Michelin-starred chefs from around the world are gathering in Ponta Delgada, for the 4th edition of the ‘10 Fest Açores 2015’ taking place June 18-27. Organized by the local Escola de Formação Turística e Hoteleira (EFTH) [School of Tourism and Hospitality Training], the annual international food festival is one of the largest […]
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15 June 2015
Though we think of King Arthur as archetypically British, the spread of the Arthurian legends was international, extending, among other places, to the Iberian Peninsula, where they had a deep influence and inspired such literary works as the chivalric romances parodied by Cervantes in Don Quixote. Iberia was also the conduit through which these legends […]
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13 June 2015
With Pessoa’s digitized private library online, the importance of English to Pessoa has become indisputable, particularly in his formative years: numerous English authors served as the bedrock from which his poetic sensibility emerged, developed and soared. In fact, a significant amount of Pessoa’s writings in English and in Portuguese (including those attributed to his heteronyms […]
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11 June 2015
By Len Port, Contributor(*) Just as the international news was getting really bleak and boring along comes Sepp Blatter to cheer things up and add to our waning excitement over former Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates. It turns out that apart from anything else, the diminutive Blatter is a dirty old man and nearly got […]
