02 April 2014
The Arte Institute is presenting the screening of the French-Portuguese production “The Gilded Cage,” at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, on April 12, at 4pm. With director Ruben Alves and actors Joaquim de Almeida and Rita Blanco attending, the event is sold out. Based on the lives of a Portuguese immigrant […]
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28 March 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) News of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann seems to be going round in circles. ‘Revelations’ turn out to be old stories recycled. ‘Key suspects’ come and go and are then brought back again. ‘New leads’ seem to be leading nowhere. The British newspaper Mirror on March 25 declared: […]
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27 March 2014
Portuguese-Canadian author Anthony De Sa will be in Providence, RI, to present his book Kicking the Sky, on April 1, at 6pm, at the Providence Athenaeum, located at 251 Benefit Street. Sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at Brown University, the session will be conducted by professor Leonor Simas-Almeida, Senior Lecturer and […]
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26 March 2014
The maker of such widely beloved poems as “After Apple-Picking,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Winter Evening,” and “Home Burial,” to name only a few out of dozens, Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. He is also remembered for his wonderfully dramatic reading of his poem, […]
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26 March 2014
The film “The Gilded Cage,” a French-Portuguese production, will be screened at the 17th Cinéfranco Francophone International Film Festival taking place, from March 28 to April 6, in Toronto, Canada. Titled in Portuguese “Gaiola Dourada” the film was directed by Ruben Alves, the son of Portuguese immigrants in France. Hugo Gélin and Jean-André Yerlès, a […]
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26 March 2014
Portuguese fado singer Camané, one of the most prominent and established fado artists of his generation, will perform this weekend for two dates in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He will perform on 28 March at the Grand Ballroom of the Cotali Mar Restaurant in New Bedford, and on 29 March at the Zeiterion Theatre, also in […]
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