Nearly 70% of the population has a mandatory 11pm curfew | Público (PT)
Lisbon and 89 other municipalities are now deemed high risk.
Momentous Eventus: A Bunch of Music Edition
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
Lao Tzu.
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Supermarkets Will Soon Sell COVID-19 Self-Test Kits
It’ll shortly be as easy to pick up COVID-19 self-test kits at your nearest supermarket, as it is to buy a carton of eggs or a bottle of wine.
UPDATED: COVID Vaccine Signups in Portugal Opened to Those 23 and Older
Things are picking up pace!
Nearly 70% of the population has a mandatory 11pm curfew | Público (PT)
Lisbon and 89 other municipalities are now deemed high risk.
Momentous Eventus: A Bunch of Music Edition
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
Lao Tzu.
Supermarkets Will Soon Sell COVID-19 Self-Test Kits
It’ll shortly be as easy to pick up COVID-19 self-test kits at your nearest supermarket, as it is to buy a carton of eggs or a bottle of wine.
UPDATED: COVID Vaccine Signups in Portugal Opened to Those 23 and Older
Things are picking up pace!
Portuguese PM predicts herd immunity by summer’s end | EUROACTIV
Two hundred flights cancelled at Lisbon airport at start of strike | Reuters
As it happens
Portugal aims to vaccinate 570,000 children by mid-September | EURACTIV
Portugal to launch $1.5B fund for pandemic-hit firms by October | Reuters
House prices in Lisbon fall for the first time in 5 years | Idealista (PT)
Portuguese tourism expected to return to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 | EURACTIV
Restaurants in Portugal approve of Covid-19 tests at entry | ECO (PT)
Featured Interviews
Casting Off With the Artist Collective Guarda Rios on Portugal’s Rivers
Find out what four artists are doing on Portugal’s rivers, inspired in part by Huckleberry Finn and Kon-Tiki
Let’s Have a Word #2: Synik
Let’s Have a Word is David Soares‘s attempt to make the Lisbon scene spill the beans. Poet, hip-hop head, and spoken-word artist Gerald Mugwenhi, aka Synik, started scribbling rhymes in
Spring: A Photo Q&A with Henri Prestes
Henri Prestes photographs the interior of Portugal — or, if you will, paints it with his camera — like no one we have ever seen before. And it all started as a training exercise.
Getting Giffy Wit It: A Q&A With Miguel Feraso Cabral
Local gif hero Miguel Cabral doesn’t only use his artistic talents for the sake of Público, one of the top news outlets in Portugal, where he’s a web designer on a
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Momentous Eventus: Restrictions, Rinse, Repeat Edition
“The moments of déjà vu were coming more frequently, now. Moments would stutter and hiccup and falter and repeat. Sometimes whole mornings would repeat. Once I lost a day. Time seemed to be breaking down entirely.”
Neil Gaiman.
Momentous Eventus: Dia das Comunidades Edition
“Ah! where shall weary man take sanctuary, where live his little span of life secure? and ‘scape of Heaven serene th’ indignant storms that launch their thunders at us earthen worms?“ — Luís de Camões.
Let’s Have A Word #8: O Gajo
“This is as punk as it gets,” O Gajo says of picking up the traditional Alentejo guitar, viola campaniça, after years in rock bands.
Latest Food & Drink Reviews
Quiosque de São Paulo
Travel back in time at Lisbon’s oldest privately-owned kiosk and titillate your palette with old school fare at old school prices.
Maduxa Pastanaga
A culinary trip around the world starting right here in Lisbon, led by chef Ana, who’s been everywhere, man
Lisboa Tu e Eu Bistro Flores
Five-star typical Portuguese food from a five-star Portuguese chef served on a lovely esplanade in front of a chafariz
Toca do Grilo
A touch of the grill on a “piano of pork” is just the thing at this roadside restaurant.
Featured Events in Lisbon (Live ones Restarted in April!)
to Jul 25 | URBAN ART FESTIVAL | LX Factory: EMUA #1 | FREE-TBD
to Sept 27 | PAINTING EXHIBIT | Mário Dionísio – 50 anos de pintura | FREE
to Aug 1 | ART EXHIBIT | Francisca Sousa: ONCE IN A WHILE THE DEVIL APPEARED | FREE
to Dec 12 | HORTICULTURAL EXHIBIT | Lisbon Gardens: From the Middle Ages to the 21st century | 3€
From the Archive
The 5th of October, 1910: The Day We Became a Republic
Reflector #7: Fischer Z – “Luton To Lisbon”
From Trash to Totes: Q&A With Tânia Anselmo of Garbags
Lisbon Goes Steampunk
A Parreirinha do Chile
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