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The Week em Breve July 14 to 20
This week in Portugal: foreigners’ law could shake up immigration, teachers condemn far-right falsehoods, farmers look for foreign workers, and socialists condemn the demolition of shacks.
Reflector #49: Dizzy Gillespie – “Lisbon”
Dizzy Gillespie, the legendary jazz trumpeter with the puffy cheeks, scored his piece “Lisbon” in the album Winter In Lisbon as part of the original
The Week em Breve July 7 to 13
This week in Portugal: brides get bad deal, AIMA sad about missed appointments, Americans everywhere, and not keeping up with the Silvas
Let’s Have A Word: The Mighty String
In Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili), Marco Polo describes a multitude of fictional cities he has visited on all the travels
The Week em Breve June 30 to July 6
This week in Portugal: Chega looks toward local elections, new nationals living abroad, home demolitions in Loures
The Week em Breve June 23 to 29
This week in Portugal: stricter rules and longer waits for naturalization, unaffordable housing, a mobile app riles up the property-owning class, more immigration rejections, and free scooters in Lisbon
What’s on in Lisbon in July 2025
From punk to poetry to porta-johns, Lisbon’s July calendar is a cornucopia of culture you won’t want to miss.
The Week em Breve June 16 to 22
This week in Portugal: neo-nazis are making 3D-printed guns, hate speech is “trivialized,” and Portugal’s ruling party is taking a page from the far-right on immigration.
The Week em Breve June 9 to 15
This week in Portugal: Fascism in the streets is met with popular resistance. Meanwhile, rightwing rhetoric in the halls of power is met with enthusiastic capitulation and cooperation.
The Week Em Breve June 2 to 8
This week in Portugal: Defence spending to hit 2%, cocaine imports on the rise, calls for Palestine recognition, almost 20% of immigration requests rejected, and a football win for Portugal.
Lisbon’s Top Museums for Free: The When and How
Gulbenkian, CCB, and others all offer free entry a few hours a month, at least for residents of Portugal — as do many other museums in Lisbon.
The Week Em Breve May 26 to June 1
This week in Portugal: The march of Portugal’s far-right surpasses the Socialists, a military man running for president of a democratic country, and a tech tycoon who’s not a fan of the local bureaucracy