20 August 2012
By Sarah Bishop-Valentine, Contributor (*) Waiting is one of the least considered events concerning a hurricane. In the dark of night in the early hours of Monday morning, Hurricane Gordon tore through the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria, in the Azores, in a few short hours. After a day of intensive preparations on […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, People, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Miguel, Spotlight
20 August 2012
By David Mendonça, Contributor (*) Live fado CDs tend to be big, bustling affairs, rather than intimate and personal ones. The latest work from Sandra Correia, entitled simply Ao vivo [Live], fits squarely in the second category—despite having been recorded in larger venues. The fadista, who sings in the city of Porto and who was […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, People, Portugal
19 August 2012
Portuguese junior ballet dancer, Valentina dos Santos Codinha, 15, won 3rd place at the 13th Youth America Grand Prix. Valentina is a student at The National Conservatory Dance School [Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional] of Lisbon, Portugal. The competition is held annually around the world and in New York City, and is open to […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Featured, People, Portugal, World
17 August 2012
Starting with the 2012-13 school year, incoming eighth-graders at High School (MHS), New York State, will have the option to learn Portuguese as foreign language. Mineola High School (MHS) currently offers Spanish, French, Italian and Latin as foreign languages. MHS will become the first public school in New York State to offer Portuguese as a […]
Posted in Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People
17 August 2012
Centered about 1,925 miles (1,925 kilometers) west of the Azores, Gordon became a hurricane Friday. The seventh named storm of the season, Gordon will bring wind and rain to the Azores islands located 970 miles west of Lisbon, Portugal. The storm, which had weakened slightly early Friday, is expected to approach the Azores late Sunday […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Santa Maria, São Miguel, Spotlight
16 August 2012
The underemployment rate in Portugal, which includes people excluded from the labor market apart from the unemployed, has hit 23.3% according to figures extrapolated from the National Statistics Institute (INE). The numbers show that in the three months, up to the end of June, there were 827,000 people out of work, about 15% of the active […]
