Run Through Lisbon Historic Center
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Every December the streets of Lisbon come alive with athletes than run through it at the Lisbon Marathon. This year’s edition will be held at the 6th of December and departs from the city center (map). It will take the runners through the historic center, passing through Belém, next to Mosteiros dos Jerónimos, to return to the starting point.
The marathon distance is not for the weaked heart. If the 42km discourage you, you can opt for the Half Marathon or even for the Mini Marathon 6km. This...
November 26th, 2009 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Events, Outdoors & Recreation, Sports & Recreation
Limited Editions Experiences Comes to Miami’s Design District
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The holiday season is ideal time for new shopping options, and certain areas of Miami are likewise ideal space for it. Limited Edition Experiences, a program bringing the world’s most innovative fashion houses together to create inventive retail experiences, will launch in the burgeoning Design District on November 30th for a limited time. The program will feature some of the world’s most sought-after designers, including Fendi; Proenza Schouler; Duncan Quinn; Jessica Trosman;...
November 25th, 2009 | themiamiguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, culture, Events, Restaurants & Bars, Shopping
Free Admission to MOCA
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Every Thursday 11 a.m. – 9 p.m., courtesy of Target, you can simply walk free of charge into the Museum of Chinese in America’s brand spanking new digs straddling the border between Chinatown and Soho in Lower Manhattan. Designed by famed Vietnam Veterans Memorial creator Maya Lin, the museum’s interior, once an historic warehouse, still has exposed-brick walls around the sky lighted courtyard. Lin purposely didn’t have everything modernized in order to reflect the sparse interior of...
November 24th, 2009 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: Announcements, Arts and Entertainment, featuredarticle, museums, The Arts, things to see in NYC
‘Tis the Season for Festive Music: What’s on in Vancouver
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There’s a lot going on in town for those who enjoy Festive music. There’s nothing better to get you into the holiday spirit than he sound of joyful voices raised in song, Baroque music, Christmas carols and performances of favorite ballets and Christmas musicals.
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas the musical.November 12 to December 27 Make your days merry and bright with music from this unforgettable musical based on the classic holiday film. At the Stanley Industrial Alliance...
November 24th, 2009 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, ballet, choirs, christmas, Events, music, Performing Arts - Theater & Dance, symphony, The Arts, theatre
“Miami, The Magic City” – Word, Image, Realities
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The stories of some cities simply beg to be told as much in images as well as words when their history encompasses so much vivid change and reinvention of urban landscape and populations. That is exactly what Arva Moor Parks’ latest edition of her book Miami, The Magic City does so well, crafting a narrative synergy that draws the reader back from the text description into the graphic image, or conversely from the images that point you onward to read the fuller, in depth story...
November 22nd, 2009 | themiamiguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, History & Information
Cascais Jazz is back in December
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After 21 years, the first Jazz festival started by Luís Villas-Boas (also the idealist of Hot Club), is back to Cascais.
In 1970, this festivals first edition received for the first time in Lisbon Miles Davis Septet. From then on, some of the best jazz players were brought to the stages by Cascais Jazz. Names like Ornette Coleman, Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie took part on the line ups.
Next 4th to 6th of December we will be able to hear Cascais Jazz again at the Auditório...
November 22nd, 2009 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Events, festival, nightlife, Outdoors & Recreation, The Arts
Brand New Golf Courses in the Five Stars Penha Longa Hotel, Spa and Golf Course
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Penha Longa Hotel, Spa and Golf Course, a luxurious resort set amongst the breathtaking scenery of Sintra (map), announced its two newly renovated golf courses.
After a €2 million investment program, the 27 holes are divided by the 18 hole, par 72 championship course Atlantico – ranked in the top 30 Courses in Continental Europe – and the 9 hole, par 35 Monastery course. With splendid views over the ocean and the villages of Cascais and Estoril on one side, and the mountains on the...
November 21st, 2009 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Attractions, Hotels & Places to Stay, Outdoors & Recreation, Sports & Recreation
CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIRS
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The Christmas Craft Fair season opens this weekend at a variety of locations in the Lower Mainland.
It will be difficult to choose which of the 300 studios to visit during the East End Culture Crawl which runs Friday Nov 20 to Sunday Nov 23. You can visit the artists’ studios located in over 50 buildings all around the area bounded by Main St. to Commercial Drive, from First Ave north to the waterfront in Vancouver’s East End. Browse around the studios and see the creations...
November 19th, 2009 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Arts and Crafts, Arts and Entertainment, Events, Family Friendly, festival, The Arts
Art tour offers miles of Georgia art
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Twice a year arts and craftspeople in four Northeast Georgia counties get together and hold an open house — for miles and miles. They offer demonstrations, music, food and lodging specials and a great opportunity for you to get started on your Christmas shopping with some Georgia original artistry.
Mark of the Potter is located on the beautiful Soque River
Choose a county from the Arts Tour website and plot your weekend — it starts at 1 on Friday (Nov. 13,) 10 on Saturday and 1 on Sunday...
November 11th, 2009 | Linda Erbele | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Events, featuredarticle, Scenic & Short Trips
S. Martinho is Offering Roasted Chestnuts
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The 11th of November we celebrate Saint Martin’s day with the fist chestnuts and young wine. We gather around a table or a fire place outside telling stories, eating roasted chestnuts and drinking jeropiga, the first wine of the year. This is our Magusto, a popular festivity.
Legend says that a knight, on the cold days of November, helped a poor man giving him half of his coat. Just after that, the sun started to shine as if it was a latte summer day. Today we still expect what we call St. Martins...
November 9th, 2009 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Attractions, Events, Family Friendly, featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, History & Information, Outdoors & Recreation
Gerald Posner’s Miami Babylon: the Magic City Unmasked
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Illusion and reality are a potent topic for any writer to dissect — tell-all books on celebrities living and dead are standard fare and a media staple of our time. What is more unusual is a book about a city and its times from infancy to maturity — well, sort of — and the people and events that were key in shaping it and have left their imprint to the present. This type of intelligent tell-all about a place can get you dropping everything else to sit down and learn a...
October 30th, 2009 | themiamiguide | Read More | Comments: 4Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, History & Information, People - Interesting Local People
Cheap Design Shopping at Lisbon Stock Market
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If you fancy nice clothes, the best brands and the best designers, at Lisbon Stock Market you may find all this at real bargains.
The 14th edition of this one-of-a-kind outlet market is no different from all the others. Here you can find good quality labels from past seasons at amazing discount prices, up to 80%.
You can expect all the best brands of all different products – clothes, shoes, decoration, books and perfumes are just a few of the choices.
Apart from the great shopping, there’s...
October 25th, 2009 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Attractions, Events, Family Friendly, Outdoors & Recreation, Shopping
Maurice Sendak Exhibit
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You still have time to visit the hottest exhibit here in NYC. If you were raised on Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are or have just been introduced to the story via the newly released movie adaptation, this collection now showing until November 1st at the Morgan Library and Museum is a must see!
Inside the Morgan Library
Commemorating the 1963 children’s classic, this retrospective of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak features some of his preliminary sketches for Wild Things,...
October 23rd, 2009 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Arts and Entertainment, Attractions
Top Authors Headed to Miami Book Fair International ’09
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What’s your interest in the world of books? Fiction or non-fiction, professional or leisure, hobby or lifestyle, you will not only find it well represented but in all likelihood also well represented in person by an author in that category at this year’s Miami Book Fair International, which runs from Sunday, November 8 through Sunday, November 15, 2009.
credit: MBFI
Over the 8 days of this Book Fair’s 26th year, being held at the Wolfson campus of Miami-Dade College in downtown...
October 15th, 2009 | themiamiguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Events
Hawaii International Film Festival: October 15-25
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For ten glorious days, Hawaii will be hosting its international film festival from October 15-25. The film line-up is chock full of Asian films as well as other international cinema delights.
HIFF started as a project of the East-West Center at the University of Hawai`i Manoa campus in Honolulu. The first HIFF in 1981 screened seven films from six countries to an audience of 5,000. Today, HIFF is the a premiere cinematic event in the Pacific that has had more than one dozen screening sites on...
October 12th, 2009 | byun | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, film, Hawaii, Hawaii International Film Festival, honolulu, movies
October Fun: Moonlight Movies and Thoroughly Modern Millie
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We’re only at the beginning of October and already so much has happened in Hong Kong. The National Day and Mid-Autumn festivities were quite the events of the year with grand fireworks shows and other exciting happenings. A cool breeze has greeted us following the Mid-Autumn fest to remind us that summer is truly over and it’s time to gear up for the winter season. This week my top priorities are 1.) Watch two movies: one in the traditional way at the cinema, the other under the autumn moonlight...
October 5th, 2009 | Jessy DB | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Family Friendly, festival, Food & Beverage, movies, musicals, outdoor movies, Performing Arts - Theater & Dance, The Arts
Falling Prices in NYC
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Prices on many top attractions are falling faster than the leaves all across the City! All 5 boroughs are included in the action starting Oct 6th through 27th. Enjoy over 150 discounts to museum admissions, theater tickets, restaurants, shops, and tours.
Central Park Foliage (Courtesy of Malcolm Pinckney)
“Real Deal Fall” favorites include:
Free dessert with any entrée at the Palm Restaurant in TriBeCa
20% off your total food bill at BarBao, GustOrganics and Fig & Olive
Two-for-one...
October 1st, 2009 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Arts and Entertainment, dining
Cultural week at Chiado
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Chiado (map), one of the most interesting neighbourhoods in Lisbon, will be presenting a cultural week from the 10th until the 17th of October. Many will be the things to choose from. This is a great opportunity to discover some hided secrets Lisbon has to offer through guided visits.
Music and literature recitals, workshops and exhibitions are some of the things you may find around Chiado on this week.
More information: Program
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September 30th, 2009 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Arts and Entertainment, Attractions, Events, Family Friendly, museums, music, Outdoors & Recreation, The Arts
‘Ded Na Si Lolo’ is Philippine Entry to 2010 Oscars
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The Film Academy of the Philippines has chosen Soxie Topacio’s indie film, ‘Ded Na Si Lolo’ (Grandfather is Dead) as the country’s entry to the 2010 Oscars.
The movie, which was shown in a limited number of theaters in May, will compete under the Best Foreign Language Film category of the Academy Awards.
‘Ded’ is a drama/comedy about the various superstitions surrounding a 6-day wake. And there are a lot of these superstitions… Among the things that the family of the departed cannot...
September 22nd, 2009 | Maricar | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: academy awards 2010, Arts and Entertainment, ded na si lolo, oscars 2010, Philippine entertainment, philippine film, philippine film academy, philippine movie
10 Things to Do in Chicago This Fall
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While summer has the claim to be the season for Chicago’s outdoor festivals, the fall is also prime time for festivals, parades, concerts, and more. In fact, many Chicagoans say autumn is one of the city’s best seasons. Consider this your guide to some of Chicago’s most popular fall events, listed in order of date.
1. Harvest Fest – live music and local foods and drinks; Sept. 18 – 20, 1900 W. Belmont Avenue, 773-665-4682.
2. Guinness Oyster Festival – known for its...
September 18th, 2009 | Lisa Davis | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Bars and Clubs, books, Chicago, Events, fall events, festival, free, Halloween, kid friendly, music, News, parades, Performing Arts - Theater & Dance, Thanksgiving, top ten
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