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 […]
Posted in Awards, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
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 […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Books, Brazil, Featured, Heritage, Mozambique, People, Portugal, World
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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22 May 2013
An international panel has presented the Azores, again, with the QualityCoast Gold Award as the best European most sustainable holiday destination. The award was announced Monday, in Gozo, Malta, at the Year on Coastal Tourism event, during the 6th edition of European Maritime Day Conference. The QualityCoast Awards are considered a most prestigious international honor […]
