Portugal

Where's the Mexican Marshall Plan?

Oh, Those Penalty Kicks!

Euro 2012 has been so enjoyable so far that I hate to nit-pick. But... Didn't you have a feeling about 10 minutes into Italy vs. England on Saturday that if it wasn't a question of watching all that gorgeous ebb-and-flow that it is supposed to be what soccer's appeal is really all about. I mean, if ... More >>

The Rose King

Do Look Now: MOMI's Ambitious Inaugural Pocket Fest, First Look

Make Francisco Rosa's Clams Bulhao Pato

Alfama​On cold winter days, savory seafood dishes can be as warming and satisfying as soups. Chef Francisco Rosa, of Alfama (214 E. 52nd St.), offers up his recipe for a favorite pescatarian plate -- clams Bulhão Pato. "19th Century Portuguese poet Raimundo António de Bulhão Pato ironicall ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

RHYTHM & SOUL

How about two nights in Portugal?

Better Movies, Less Hoopla--Tribeca Finds Its Footing

Mists: Memory and Meaning in Peniche, Portugal

My Weirdest Piece Of Press Ever

Surely you read about the Portuguese gossip columnist who was recently killed and castrated by a psycho 20-year-old at the Intercontintal Hotel. Well, in a New York Observer piece about this tragedy, the older man, Carlos Castro, is identified as a Portuguese version of me! Says the article, Castr ... More >>

World Cup 2018 Goes to Russia, 2022 to Qatar, Psychic Octopus TBD

​Russia has been chosen to host the 2018 World Cup, via a secret ballot vote by Fifa's executive committee today. Condolences to England, Spain and Portugal, and Belgium and the Netherlands, (the latter two in joint bids), who were all finalists.

Faith, Film, and Lots of Fado in The Portuguese Nun

New York Film Festival: The Hype and the Substance

This year's NYFF manages both. Plus: Our best of the fest

Where Can Gays Marry and Adopt?

​Watchdog reporter Rex Wockner knows, and he's put it all down in one handy list for future husbears and bear-ents: "Same-sex marriage is legal in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Mexico City, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts ... More >>

Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl

Portugal. the Man

The Best Chocolate Cake in the World? "As a Matter of Fact, It Sucks."

​Call your business the Best Chocolate Cake in the World and you might as well slap a target sign on the window, particularly in New York, where there's a) already a lot of superlative chocolate cake and b) a lot of opinionated people. But that doesn't seem to have bothered the Best Chocolate ... More >>

World Cup 2010 Bluffer's Guide

What you need to sound like you understand fútbol

'Perverse Poet: João César Monteiro' at BAM

With Bodega, Bushwick Gets a Full-On Wine Bar

Joe Shlabotnik/FlickrBooze you can use.​Oh, the times they are a-changin': Just weeks after Bushwick got another cafe, it's now home to a full-fledged wine bar. Called Bodega, it opened last weekend on the somewhat barren corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and Troutman Street.

Salt Cod Fritters at O Lavrador, a Portuguese Restaurant in Jamaica, Queens

​At 75 cents apiece, these baccalao fritters make a great meal or bar snack. Codfish made the European Age of World Exploration possible. It fed the sailors who manned the globe-circumnavigating ships. It fed the enslaved Africans who worked the plantations established in the New World. It wa ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Turkey Day in the City

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! A Craft-y Thanksgiving Hours: 2:00pm-8:00pm Sure, it's not mom's green bean casserole. But you could do worse than Tom Colicchio's Thanksgiving dinner ($115). An amuse-bouche of spi ... More >>

Giuliani beats the 9/11 drums

​The baseball season is over, and both Michelle Obama and prominent example of his terror-fighting judgment Bernie Kerik stepped on whatever good press Rudy Giuliani might have gotten from his sweet World Series seats. So what's a putative gubernatorial candidate to do for a little free media? ... More >>

What to 'B' to Lamb & Jaffy

Every week or so in 'What to B When You BYOB' we ask a local wine shop to recommend a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, we talk to Meguire Campbell, the manager at Vine Wine in LIC, about what to bring to Lamb & Jaffy, with its affordable New Ame ... More >>

What to 'B' to Zaytoons

Every week or so in 'What to B When You BYOB' we ask a local wine shop to recommend a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, we talk to Kamar, one of the managers at Smith & Vine about what to bring to Brooklyn Middle-eastern joint Zaytoons. Smith & V ... More >>

Birdsong, Albert Serra's Legend of Three Kings

The Early Word -- Macao Trading Company

The Cannes Film Festival Thus Far

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Nathan Lee's Top 10

The Raw Power of a Fresh Start

Pleasurable epitaphs, avant-garde daring, and wonder-filled immigrant songs

Sizing Up the 45th New York Film Festival

From diving bells to red balloons, the NYFF's critical condition

Lost in the Bewilderness

Animal Collective's latest mixes dizzying highs with frustrating dog-paddles

Letters

Our Man Sietsema: 'Like drinking pork barbecue'

Lee's Top 10

An End to California 'Chablis'

Does it matter that new American wines can't be labeled with regional affiliations?

Fado Singer Gambles on Love in Portuguese American Town

Gamma Gamma Hey

Warming Up to Soccer

The U.S. Finally Shakes Off Its Cold War Prejudices

Do as We Say, Not as We Do

NY Mirror

Sweet Portugal’s Badass Songs

World Leaders on Dope

Right Joins Left in Call For an End to the Drug War

Global Wetting

Only Connect

Renée Green Sparks the New Global Conversation

Twist of Fado

Golden Moments

The Other History of the Olympics

Basya Schechter

(singer-songwriter-musician-teacher)

Timor Ease

Clinton Makes Hay in Asia Mess

Major League Death Match

Video Jocks Duke It Out for $100K Prize