30 May 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) The “two terrible years” anticipated by Pedro Passos Coelho on taking office as Portugal’s Prime Minister on 5th June 2011 are almost up. That will not be the end of it, of course. There is no end in sight to the economic suffering Passos Coelho said the nation would have […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Politics, Portugal, World
29 May 2013
Portuguese-Canadian Denise Garrido, 26, was Miss Universe Canada just for one day before the event organizers realized they had made a typing error on the scoring results. Garrido, from Bradford, Ontario, had been crowned Miss Canada out of 57 contestants, on Saturday, May 25. A day later, she learned she was actually the third runner […]
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28 May 2013
Portuguese-American television personality, Meredith Vieira, former “Today” and “The View” host, reportedly is developing a solo daytime talk show for NBC Universal. Currently, Vieira is working on a pilot episode of a light pre-taped daytime, entertainment-driven show, to be launched in the fall 2014, it has been reported. Trial shows were tapped in Chelsea, New […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Entertainment, Faial, Featured, Heritage, People
27 May 2013
Mia Couto is the winner of the 2013 Camões Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious international awards honoring the work of Portuguese language writers – it was announced Monday, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The awarding jury included writers José Eduardo Agualusa and Joao Paulo Borges Coelho, journalist José Carlos Vasconcelos, professor Clara […]
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27 May 2013
This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portuguese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, came second only to Marco Polo’s work in exciting Europe’s imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto’s odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary, and continues […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Damão, Diu, East Timor, Featured, Goa, Life Style, Politics, Portugal, Travel, World
23 May 2013
By Michel Colson, Contributor (*) W.B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa seem to be ill-suited for comparison. True, they were both Modernist poets who were near contemporaries, but the Portuguese man-of-letters was hardly among Yeats’s literary friends. Although he was conversant in English, Pessoa didn’t have the credentials that would have situated him in the elder […]
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