31 August 2015
HBO will be launched in the Portuguese market on September 1. HBO Portugal will be introduced to the Portuguese market in partnership with NOS Lusomundo, a Portuguese integrated media corporation. HBO, the producer of the popular Game of Thrones series, is already available in Europe in partnership with Sky, with content distributed on Sky Atlantic. […]
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31 August 2015
By Len Port, Contributor (*) In a strange twist in the tale of notorious conman Kenner Elias Jones, he is now being sought not by police but by his first wife who divorced him many years ago. Having been deported from Canada and the United States, Ken Jones has managed to outwit police forces across […]
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, […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion
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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