26 January 2012
By David Mendonça (*) ♦ Jorge Fernando brought a very unique fado show to Carnegie Hall last night (24-Jan-12), one that exploited the tension between the old and the new fado in ways that I’d never have expected. The typical fado show has a very predictable structure: guitarrada (just the musicians playing), followed by a number […]
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24 January 2012
Five of the 28 scientists considered “people who, 10 years from now (…) will be the scientific leaders in their countries”, by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, are working in Portugal. The four Portuguese and one American researchers are based at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), […]
23 January 2012
Books and other belongings of Portuguese 1998 Nobel laureate, José Saramago, began arriving at Lisbon’s Casa dos Bicos, said a statement from the Saramago Foundation. At the time of his death in 2010, Saramago, who was married to Spanish journalist Pilar del Rio, lived on the Lanzarote island in the Spanish Canaries. Casa dos Bicos, […]
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22 January 2012
Portuguese Canadian singer Nelly Furtado is coming out with her new yet-to-be-titled LP in the summer and also touring to promote this follow-up to her multi-platinum selling album, Loose. Nelly tweeted recently saying, “It’s official: Album out for summer 🙂 and I’ll be out on the road promoting it for at least 2 years cuz […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Community, Entertainment, Music, People, São Miguel
22 January 2012
The poets Ire’ne Lara Silva and Millicent Borges Accardi met last summer at CantoMundo in Austin, Texas, at a wonderful gathering of Latino(a) poets where writers are nurtured. In their conversation, they spoke about grief, poetry completion scams, the notion of “community,” documenting “moments” and Fernando Pessoa as they trade off questions and answers in […]
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21 January 2012
The city of Braga, the third largest Portuguese city, is the 2012 European Youth Capital, a title awarded to a European city for the period of one year to showcase its youth-related cultural, social, political and economic life and development. Braga (population of 826,833) provides unique youth field services and facilities for the youth, such […]
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