15 February 2013
The former President of the Regional Government of the Azores, Carlos César, will be bestowed the Grã-Cruz da Ordem Militar de Cristo [Military Order of Christ] by the President of Portugal, Cavaco Silva, for his distinguished career as a public servant. One of the oldest and highest honors bestowed by the Portuguese Government, the Grã-Cruz […]
Posted in Awards, Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal
14 February 2013
The February 2013 catalogue of the upscale women’s apparel retail chain Anthropologie is featuring a new line of clothing design inspired by Portuguese themes and styles, with images captured on site in Portugal (view slide show). Throughout the whole Spring collection, the discriminating fashionista will find a profusion of Portuguese suggestive motifs, details and textures. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Anthropologie […]
Posted in Fashion, Featured, Heritage, Home & Garden, Life Style, Portugal
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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