There are currently an estimated 1.74 billion websites on the Internet, according to statistics published this past January. Although it’s impossible to determine the percent of them that are dedicated to news and information, it’s certain that a healthy number are. Today, every major print, television and radio news outlet has a website that’s updated
Inside the most exclusive club in town By Kimberley Lestieux, in Lisbon · 09-07-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Since the end of the Second World War, the American Club of Lisbon has cultivated social and business relations between Americans and Portuguese in Lisbon. Today, the club continues to promote “goodwill and understanding” among all expats and travellers in Portugal.
Started in 1945, the humble beginnings of the American Club of Lisbon took place in a politically neutral Portugal, where a group of American businessmen residing in the country, decided to meet up to discuss business opportunities post war. In the next couple of years, arriving entrepreneurs and American diplomats joined the group. While the organisation gained new members and a constitution in 1947, the goal always remained “to cultivate
When Australian Jackson Erwin first came to Lisbon nine years ago, he saw the city as his “home away from home”. Now he and his team have created CoCasa - a.
Whether you prefer the classic, authentic, recipe of Portugal’s custard pies or want to try a different twist on the pastry, Lisbon has enough different.
“Real Lisbon” through the lenses of Stephen O’Regan and Rita Ansone By Kimberley Lestieux, in News, Lisbon · 14-05-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Irish filmmaker Stephen O’Regan and Latvian photographer Rita Ansone started the “People of Lisbon” project nine months ago, telling the stories of “real” Lisboetas, that often underline the diversity of the capital’s residents.
Wearing his usual dark green “burglar” beanie as he likes to call it, I met Stephen O’Regan, creator of “People of Lisbon”, in a café downtown where we talked about his project between a few bites of banana bread and coffee. The filmmaker - even though he doesn’t know if he considers himself to be a filmmaker because he “doesn’t really know what that means” - makes videos each week, about a resident of the capita