28 July 2015
By Patricia Silva, Contributor (*) As matter refined by human thought and shaped by the hand, materials carry meanings, histories, metaphors, and various units of social measurement. Leonor Antunes’ current installation at the Lobby Gallery of the New Museum of Contemporary Art — I stand like a mirror before you — invites us to consider spatial and […]
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28 July 2015
The Portuguese community of New Bedford, MA, is organizing the 2015 Feast of the Blessed Sacrament to be held over the weekend at the Madeira Field in the city’s North End’s area. In its 101st edition, the event begins Thursday July 30 and ends Sunday August 2, gathering over 100,000 people coming from all over […]
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27 July 2015
‘Before 1492: The Portuguese Discovery of America’ presents a compelling argument, based upon known historical facts and reasonable scientific deductions, that Portuguese mariners discovered America at least a decade before Columbus set sail on the Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta. The primary evidence for this theory is a map, now on permanent display at the […]
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25 July 2015
In a new development, House Representatives David G. Valadao (R-CA) and Jim Costa (D-CA) led a bipartisan letter, which was signed by 111 Members of Congress, requesting that funding be withheld for construction activity related to the Joint Intelligence Analysis Complex (JIAC) at Royal Air Force (RAF) Croughton “until the Committee completes its investigation into […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, Terceira, World
23 July 2015
Portuguese ground handling baggage workers, at Lisbon Portela Airport, will go on a five-hour strike next week, July 31, from 9:00am to 3:00pm local time. Flights to and from Lisbon will be delayed at the airport with disruptions in luggage services. The strike is being called by the Union of Workers of the Aviation and […]
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18 July 2015
A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them. Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women […]
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