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Good Haunting Grounds
The Jardim Botanico is full of Portuguese history. It was designed in 1873 for the Universidade de Lisboa (classica) botany program and is filled with trees and flowers from Latin America, China,...
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I see your barrel of imitation crocs, and raise you these paintings on low...
Yesterday we went to the beach. It’s ”winter” here, so the scene at the beach mostly consists of red, freckled, and very pale skin.
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Chill Out
Saturday night I hopped over to Chill Out with Shuna and a group of her friends. It’s not quite the scene I experienced last weekend at Donkey Shot. It’s a chic spot on the waterfront that serves more...
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Luandan Caubóis
I’m convinced that the US is the only place in the world where the cowboy has died. Case and point: Luanda, where an honest, hard-working man can pair a polyester buttondown with Obama’s head...
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Conferência de Óscar Ribas
Tuesday I crashed a conference at the Congress’s Palace. Not an easy feat given the amount of persistently incompetent security staking out the entrance. Here is what happened. I wanted to meet with...
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anything can be sold
photographers hired to take pictures at an academic conference in Luanda have been taking pictures of the audience and sell them outside of the lecture hall as glamor shots. Naturally my own suspicions...
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nascimento de uma nação
Congratulations to historian Carlos Serrano, who was awarded the National Prize for Culture and Arts on Friday in Luanda for his book: Angola – Nascimento de Uma Nação. Um estudo sobre a construção da...
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GREAT LITERATURE RETITLED TO BOOST WEBSITE TRAFFIC, and why people came...
Not too long ago, Mike Lacher had this great little piece for McSweeney’s: GREAT LITERATURE RETITLED TO BOOST WEBSITE TRAFFIC - – - - 7 Awesome Ways Barnyard Animals Are Like Communism The 11 Stupidest...
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