09 October 2012
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), of Massachusetts, is hosting an exhibition of 15th century Portuguese tapestries titled, The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries, on view from October 27 to December 31, 2012. The exhibit is open Tuesday-Sunday and holiday Mondays, 10 am-5 pm. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Monumental […]
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06 October 2012
The film, Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story, will inaugurate the Mayim Jewish Film Series of the JCC on the Hudson White Plains (NY), on October 10, at 7:30pm, whose theme this year is tales of Holocaust rescue. The film, directed by Joel Santoni and starring Bernard Lecoq as Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will be introduced by […]
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28 September 2012
By Billie Maciunas, Contributor (*) Florbela Espanca’s distinctly feminine symbology was recognized in the 1940s by the Portuguese poet and critic, Jorge de Sena.This symbology in part accounts for the scant recognition that Espanca received during her lifetime as a figure in Portuguese letters. As de Sena (1959) recognized, Espanca’s poetry was alien to the […]
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25 September 2012
Portuguese workers nationwide will protest again Saturday, September 29, against the latest government issued austerity rules. Large gatherings of protesters are expected to concentrate in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal’s largest cities. The protests are being called by CGTP (Central Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses) the largest Portuguese union federation, representing 727,000 workers in 81 unions. Last […]
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24 September 2012
President José Eduardo dos Santos is to be sworn President of Angola, for a five-year term in office, Wednesday, following the Angolan Constitutional Court’s announcement that all appeals presented by opposition parties were dismissed as groundless. The official final results of the 31 August polls gave dos Santos and his MPLA party 71.28% of the […]
21 September 2012
Tourists from the United States are the fastest growing group visiting Portugal, according to the Portuguese national tourist board, Lusa reported. The number of US visitors who came to the country in the first six months of the year was up 7.5% compared to a year earlier, at 135,000, putting the US ninth in terms […]
