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Anthropologizing,

Published in 9 Bairros September 19, 2021. Where is my bairro? Well, I have spent time throughout my life living in a good number of...

The first guitar that I bought I picked up from a pawn shop/second hand store just on the other side of the Bourne Bridge, on the Mass...

The Aldeia da Luz is a small Portuguese village deep in the heart of the agricultural farmlands and vineyards of rural Alentejo. I should...

Portugal is on the eastern shore of the Atlantic, that swath of coastline and coastal plain that blows back up inland from the hard ocean...

the country's hosting of the Copa has revealed unapologetic corruption at the top-levels, gross governmental financial waste and human righ

I was as surprised and I suppose as saddened as anyone else to hear that Bacalhoeiro was closing. I have been a socio since shortly after...

Published in New Bedford Standard Times, Dec 22, 2011 p A5. Back in 1999, I caught Cesaria Evora — who passed away on her native island...

Published in Observatório da Emigração, 2011 Deportado chegou a ser uma categoria atribuída por muitos habitantes dos Açores aos...

Over the weekend of the 19th-20th, Portugal is host to the 2010 NATO Lisbon Summit. On the docket are serious issues related to the...

Online version published in RTP Açores Comunidades. Once upon a time, Fernando Aires invited me to his house for lunch. I was living in...