17 October 2013
The film Alto Minho (2012), by Portuguese director Miguel Felgueiras will premiere at the 2013 Margaret Mead Film Festival to be held in New York City, on October 20, at 5:30 pm, in the American Museum of Natural History, with director in attendance. The documentary portrays the daily life and festivities in the Alto de […]
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16 October 2013
The 17th Annual PALCUS Leadership Awards Gala will take place on November 2, in the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, San Diego (CA). This year, the Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) will award seven distinguished Portuguese Americans for their contributions to the community. The 2013 PALCUS Leadership awardees are Joe da Rosa, […]
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15 October 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) In the massive publicity campaign, viewers had been promised a ‘revelation’ but the only revelation during the BBC’s special Crimewatch program on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was how slow Scotland Yard detectives seem to have been in getting up to speed on the case and how shallow the BBC […]
15 October 2013
The Azores became officially the 2014 “Preferred Destination” of European Travel Agents’ and Tour Operators’ Associations (ECTAA), according to a protocol signed this week by representatives of the Government of the Azores and ECTAA’s representatives. The distinction will bring added benefits to the Azores in the promotion of the archipelago as a quality tourist destination. […]
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15 October 2013
On Tuesday November 12, Touro Law Center Center will join with the Sousa Mendes Foundation and the Long Island Portuguese community to honor the memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes during an event marking the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht. Aristides de Sousa Mendes, known as the “Portuguese Schindler,” was a Portuguese diplomat in France during […]
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14 October 2013
This Tuesday, the population of the Azores will participate again in the “SOS Cagarro” initiative, a program aimed to preserving the Cory’s Shearwaters species which nests in the Azores. Launched in 1995, the “SOS Cagarro” is the largest environmental protection program in Portugal. “Cagarro” is the Portuguese name for the Cory’s Shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea) a […]
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