13 March 2013
The northern city of Porto, Portugal’s biggest surf center, is hosting the first edition of the International Porto Surf Film Festival, to be held March 29-31. The festival will screen a selection of the best surf movies ever made. According to Carlos Rui Ribeiro, co-founder of the Porto Surf Film Festival, the event is open to […]
Posted in Featured, Film, Organizations, Portugal, Sports, World
12 March 2013
Novelist Anthony Barcellos will open the Portuguese Studies Initiative, a series of upcoming book presentations by Portuguese-American authors at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The event, scheduled for March 28, at 7 p.m., is co-sponsored by the UMass Lowell Center for Educational Partnerships in Portugal; the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; and […]
Posted in Azores, Books, Community, Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage, World
11 March 2013
Portuguese TV star, Diogo Morgado, plays the leading man, as Jesus Christ, in the miniseries epic production The Bible for the History Channel. The production, by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, drew over 15 million viewers, last Sunday, making it the History Channel’s best day ever. The 10-hour miniseries will be featured every Sunday, over […]
Posted in Community, Entertainment, Featured, Film, People, Portugal, Religion, World
09 March 2013
By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) California leads the nation with its Portuguese-American population of over 330, 000 people. The second largest concentration of those who claim Portuguese ancestry is in the Central Valley, which spans 450 miles from Sacramento in the north to Bakersfield in the south and is one of the world’s most vital […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, Terceira
07 March 2013
By David Mendonça, Contributor (*) The fadista Rodrigo Costa Félix will be performing on 16 March, in Toronto, Canada, at the Casa do Alentejo, where he will be joined by the musicians Marta Pereira da Costa (the two are married), Pedro Pinhal, and Rodrigo Serrão. Both Rodrigo and Marta are fiercely hard working. In the […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, People, Portugal, World
06 March 2013
According to Michael C. Cook, responsible for the US Census Bureau public affairs and media relations, the US Census Bureau does not intend “to classify people of Portuguese origin as Hispanic,” in 2020. In a statement reacting to an article published by the Washington Examiner, Cook remarked, “We have received calls about this topic over […]
