Relational Cartography: Every Map of the Azores is a LieAlmost every map of the Azores you ever saw is a lie. In order to get the whole archipelago to fit in a way that each island is big...
A Window back out on the old Village. The story of the Aldeia da LuzThe Aldeia da Luz is a small Portuguese village deep in the heart of the agricultural farmlands and vineyards of rural Alentejo. I should...
The Portuguese AtlanticPortugal is on the eastern shore of the Atlantic, that swath of coastline and coastal plain that blows back up inland from the hard ocean...
Postcard from Lisboa: The World Cup Wrecks Brazil. A futebol game was also lost the country's hosting of the Copa has revealed unapologetic corruption at the top-levels, gross governmental financial waste and human righ
Remembering Bacalhoeiro: the liner notes released with the 4th anniversary party CDPublished CD liner notes I was as surprised and I suppose as saddened as anyone else to hear that Bacalhoeiro was closing. I have been a...
Entrevista com Observatório da EmigraçãoPublished in Observatório da Emigração, 2011 Deportado chegou a ser uma categoria atribuÃda por muitos habitantes dos Açores aos...
The Circus is in Town. The Nato summit and the big story in LisbonOver the weekend of the 19th-20th, Portugal is host to the 2010 NATO Lisbon Summit. On the docket are serious issues related to the...
The Last True Gentleman. Recollecting Fernando Aires. 1928-2010Online version published in RTP Açores Comunidades. Once upon a time, Fernando Aires invited me to his house for lunch. I was living in...
Josay SaeramaygoeI originally published this piece in my old weekly column in the Portuguese Times after a visit by the freshly minted nobel laureate José...