14 December 2012
Portugal’s two-year mandate at the United Nations Security Council ends on December 31, after having won a close election against bids from Germany and Canada, in late 2010. Portugal assumed its first rotating monthly presidency of the Security Council on November, 2010. Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva lead the first debate on November 9, focusing […]
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12 December 2012
The Azorean airline SATA International has announced a new air service from San Francisco, California, to the Azores and Lisbon in partnership with Virgin America Airlines. The new air service will connect passengers through Boston to Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, and Lisbon in mainland Portugal. An estimated 300,000 people of Portuguese descent live in […]
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10 December 2012
The Portuguese band, OqueStrada, will perform at the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert, in Oslo, Norway. A tribute to the year’s laureates, the concert will be held October 11. The concert, to be staged at the 7,000-capacity Spektrum Arena in the Norwegian capital, the day after the ceremony to award the Nobel Peace Prize, will be […]
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10 December 2012
By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) I met Frank X. Gaspar at a writers conference about fifteen years ago after a friend of mine said, “You’re Portuguese? You two should talk.” After that, we kept in touch and checked in from time to time. I read his wonderful books and, when I got my graduate degree, […]
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07 December 2012
By Billie Maciunas, Contributor (*) Florbela Espanca (1894-1930) is one of Portugal’s most known and loved poets. She was the illegitimate child of a housemaid and a nondescript father who didn’t acknowledge her until nearly twenty years after her death on December 8, 1930, exactly 36 years to the day of her birth. She is […]
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04 December 2012
Billboard has named Portuguese-American vocalist, Katy Perry, its woman of the year. Perry released “Teenage Dream” in 2010, and became the second artist in the history of Billboards’ Pop Songs chart to take five tracks from a single album to “Number One” with her single hit “Last Friday Night” from her last album “Teenage Dream.” […]
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