03 June 2011
Portuguese animal defense activists are willing to compromise to preserve bullfighting by transforming the traditional bloody spectacle into an artistic performance. Paulo Borges, the leader of PAN – National Party for Animals and Nature – said in a recent interview for Lusa that his organization would support the preservation of bullfighting if the animal abuse and […]
02 June 2011
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are expected to attend the prestigious 2011 Pritzker Prize for Architecture awards event, Thursday evening, honoring Portugal’s architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. Obama will speak at the formal ceremony honoring the winner, at the event to be held at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, in Washington, DC. The […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Community, People
02 June 2011
By Anna Domings, Guest Editor (*) — Down a long and winding road in the small town of Merrimac, Massachusetts, is a quiet haven of Portuguese culture. Sons of the Wind, owned by Victor Silva, is a horse farm, which exclusively breeds, trains, and sells Lusitanos, a breed which originates from Portugal. The farm offers […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Interviews, People, Sports, Terceira
02 June 2011
Instituto Camões (IC), based in Lisbon, Portugal, is planning to open a cultural center in Toronto, Canada, reported Lusa News Agency. The project is being developed in partnership with an anonymous donor, a Luso-Canadian businessman. According to Ana Paula Ribeiro, coordinator for the teaching of Portuguese in Canada, the future “Centro de Língua e Cultura […]
Posted in Canada, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations
01 June 2011
Tap Air Portugal cabin crew is staging a 10 day summer strike for June 18, 19, 20, 25 and 26, and for July 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, to protest staff layoffs — announced, Wednesday, the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Attendants. In a statement to the press, unionist Ricardo Andrade said the […]
01 June 2011
Portuguese American scientist Dr. Ronald A. DePinho, MD, 56, was chosen as the sole finalist to succeed John Mendelsohn as the next president of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, at the University of Texas in Houston. The son of Portuguese immigrants, Dr. DePinho is a Harvard University cancer geneticist, the director of the Belfer Institute […]
