14 February 2013
By Richard Simas,Contributor (*) Mix traditional Eastern European Klezmer tunes such as bulgaryas, freylaks, horas, and niguns with strains of samba, salsa, and tango, and you have Jewish music, South American style. Add Berber sounds from the deserts, new-jazz inflected original compositions from Israel and Brooklyn, a cumbia style dance-band, and Brazilian choirs and you […]
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13 February 2013
Eça de Queiroz is considered to be Portugal’s greatest novelist. Dedalus has embarked on a project of making all his major works available in English in new translations by Margaret Jull Costa. In this volume, comprising one short novel and six short stories, the reader is introduced to a dazzling variety of worlds and characters: a […]
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13 February 2013
Azorean-Portuguese film director, Manuel Bernardo Cabral, was awarded second place at the third edition of the Script International Short Film Festival, for the short film titled “50 pesos argentinos.” The festival took place February 8-9 in Kochi, Kerala (India). The film, entirely shot on São Miguel island, is based on a short story by Azorean […]
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12 February 2013
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has just issued the first Portuguese language edition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, as part of a project which has “reconceived and written” the Museum’s own guidebook in nearly thirty years. Besides the Portuguese language edition, the new guide was also issued in Chinese, French, Italian, […]
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12 February 2013
Portuguese-Canadian career politian, Charles Sousa, 54, was appointed Ontario’s new Finance Minister by Ontario’s 25th new elected Premier, Kathleen Wynne, the Canadian press reported Monday. Sousa, a two-term Mississauga South MPP and former bank executive, will inherit a treasure deficit estimated at $11.9 billion. Sousa, the former Citizen and Immigration Minister, was the MPP for […]
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11 February 2013
Since its introduction to Hawai‘i in 1879, the ‘ukulele has been many things: a symbol of an island paradise; a tool of political protest; an instrument central to a rich musical culture; a musical joke; a highly sought-after collectible; a cheap airport souvenir; a lucrative industry; and the product of a remarkable synthesis of western […]
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