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Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada
 

Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization – Portugal

Portugal has selected Germany’s Lufthansa Group as the strategic investor in TAP Air Portugal, marking a significant turning point for the country’s aviation industry and with important implications for Portuguese communities in the United States, Canada, and beyond.  The selection does not mean that Lufthansa has already taken ownership of TAP. Rather, it represents a […]

Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans – Portugal

Former United States President Barack Obama returned to Lisbon on Saturday, October 10, where he delivered a keynote address at the 6th edition of the Game Changers Forum.  During his two-day stay in Lisbon, Obama met with Portuguese President António José Seguro at the Palácio de Belém, the official residence of the Portuguese head of […]

Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place – Fall River (MA)

The FABRIC Arts Festival, founded in 2019 and now in its seventh edition, returns to Fall River October 8–11, showcasing Portuguese contemporary art, music, performances, exhibitions, food, and storytelling, exploring themes of migration, identity, memory, belonging, and place and connections across borders. With particular significance in Fall River, historically one of America’s leading textile-manufacturing centers […]

Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week – Portugal

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to visit Portugal this coming week as part of a European tour from October 5–8, with Lisbon as the final stop. Secretary Rubio is expected in Lisbon on Thursday, October 8, following visits to Reykjavík, Iceland, and Athens, Greece.  He is expected to meet with Prime Minister […]

Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada – Azores

The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary and 28th Annual Leadership Awards Gala on October 17 at the Coliseu Micaelense in Ponta Delgada, Azores. For the first time in the organization’s history, the PALCUS Leadership Awards Gala will be held outside the continental United States, bringing […]

“Clean Feed” nominated for “World’s Best Jazz Label” award – New York

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 […]

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Posted in Awards, Entertainment, Featured, Music

Azorean Pride Day – Boston, MA

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 […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Featured

Composer Nuno Malo nominated for the Gold Spirits Award – People

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 […]

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Posted in Awards, Entertainment, Film, Madeira, Music, People

The “Azorean Red” makes the perfect tomato – Heritage

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. […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage

Portugal agreed on bailout terms – update

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 […]

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Posted in Featured, Politics, World

New research brings hope for Machado disease cure – Portugal

03 May 2011

A team of Portuguese scientists are a step closer to finding a cure to the potentially fatal neurodegenerative Machado-Joseph Disease (MDJ).  The scientists identified a biochemical abnormality behind the neurodegenerative disease that could be key for a cure of this rare condition which at the moment is incurable and cannot be stopped. According to a […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Flores