Lisbon Blog

In one of his articles for the Uruguayan magazine Ramas Frias (Cold Branches)  writer Albert Hanover Samoa explains the bad feeling that lingered around him on an occasion that the crowds that packed the room where Alejandro Jodorowsky had just given a brilliant lecture keep listening to each of his words as if they were [...]

Queer Lisboa Film Festival in its 15th edition. The motto of the festival this time will be the “transgression”, which is the central topic that the entire program will presented during seven days. Queer Lisboa will show the best of the gay and lesbian films produced during the last two years in competitive categories for: [...]

The National Museum of Ancient Art of Lisbon presents until the 11th of September the exhibition ‘Dutch Splendor: The ‘Family Portraits’ by Pieter de Grebber’, in the Sala do Tecto Pintado. The exhibition is framed in the fourth version of the programme of small exhibition that the museum carries out to show works of its collection [...]

The institution of matrimony is immemorial. We could say that the union of possession/submission of male-female is from before the generation of language or writing, subject to the biological necessities of survival for the human race. That’s what it is, there’s no bigger reason in copulation than reproduction of the species. That’s why our genitals [...]

The Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art of Portugal has exhibited the work A Hundred Times Nguyen by the Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar. The facility, which will be open until the 28th of August, was made by Jaar in 1994 when he travelled to a refugee camp in Hong Kong. Jean François Chougnet, commissioner of the exhibition, explains [...]

When Lisbon gets unbearably hot there is always a way out: Surfing is one of them. And just less than 30 minutes from the city  you have some of the best beaches on the west coast of Europe to ride the sea. To make it easier to get to the right places it is always [...]

According to the official story, when the Second World War broke out, the British citizen of Armenian origin Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, one of the richest men in the world due to his pioneering and shady work in the oil business that developed in the Middle East (he had five percent of some of the biggest [...]

Of all the cities in Europe, none could hope to steal the crown of the capital of melancholy from Lisbon, a sad city to rival all others which appears to confront the end of the world on a daily basis with its disturbing, quiet beauty. These days it is somewhat difficult to talk about melancholy. [...]

Between the 14th, 15th and 16th July the Super Bock Super Rock festival will be held on in Herdade do Cabeco de Flauta, next to Praia do Meco in Sesimbra, on the coast surrounding Lisbon. The feast of rock and heavy metal is an event that has been calling for music lovers since 1994, when [...]

This is the second celebration of the Portuguese Gothic festival and this time, not two, but three days of great music in the beautiful castle of Leiria is awaiting you. The new event is scheduled for the 29th, 30th and 31st of July  and the bands … well, I will share that information later. In 2010, [...]