05 May 2011
Portugal holds 382.5 tons of gold, worth an estimated US$20.7 billion, one of the largest gold reserves in the European Union. Managed by Banco de Portugal — the Portuguese central bank – the Portuguese gold reserves equal 9 percent of the country’s GDP, the highest of any European country. Portugal’s gold reserves — the 13th […]
05 May 2011
Lisbon based Portuguese record label “Clean Feed” was nominated, for the third year in a row, a finalist for the “The World’s Best Jazz Label” award by New York based Jazz Journalist Association. Clean Feed, founded in 2001 by Pedro Costa, was originally created to serve the Portuguese jazz scene. Taking advantage of the Internet revolution its founders expanded […]
Posted in Awards, Entertainment, Featured, Music
05 May 2011
The Portuguese American community of Azorean descent, resident in the Greater Boston area, will celebrate the Azorean Pride Day with a cultural event, on May 22, at 2pm, at the headquarters of Filarmónica de Santo Antonio, 575 Cambridge, Cambridge, MA. Guest speakers will address issues concerning the Azorean resident community, namely participation in the political […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Featured
04 May 2011
The organization of the 7th International Film Music Festival City of Ubeda, Spain, has announced that Portuguese composer Nuno Malo is one of the six nominees for the 2010 Gold Spirits Award, for Best Revelation Composer, for the film score “Amália.” The winner will be announced during the Gold Spirits Awards Gala, to be […]
Posted in Awards, Entertainment, Film, Madeira, Music, People
04 May 2011
António Neves and his family emigrated from the Azores and settled in the Boston area. They brought with them their prized family heirloom tomato seeds. Although no one knows for sure which island they came from and when they arrived in Massachusetts, António Nunes kept selecting the seeds trying to develop a larger sized tomato. […]
03 May 2011
Outgoing Prime Minister José Socrates said on a brief statement, on Tuesday, that Portugal has agreed with the European Union and IMF on a three-year, 78-billion-euro ($116 billion) bailout loan. After nearly a month of negotiations, “The government has obtained a good deal. This is a deal that defends Portugal,” said Socrates, adding “The agreement […]
