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Renata Rentowska - The Polish-born soprano now teaching at the Horta Conservatory of Music, Portugal. She provides a photograph and professional biography, including a list of her major roles.
Gwydion - Black metal band. Information on the members, a discography, live appearances, and pictures.
Berardo Collection - Online exhibition of modern art, traditional Portuguese ceramic tiles, early 20th century advertising art, African sculptures and minerals.
Austin - The official website of this Portuguese pop band includes a biography and video clip.
Musicália Records - An independent Portuguese classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twentieth.
Anamnese - Project by Miguel von Hafe Pérez that aims to create a digital platform on contemporary art from/in Portugal between 1993 and 2003.
Drumming - Percussion group founded in Oporto in 1999. Repertoire and musicians.
Fernandes Collection - Duarte Belchior Fernandes displays his own collection of paintings by various artists, including Jessica Dunn.
Antonio Romao - Singer from Portugal based in Denmark. Biography, lyrics and photographs.
Portugal Cultural Policies - Covers cultural policies and relevant government structures, financing of activites, cultural industries, development and addresses.
Luis Lopes - This artist provides galleries of his work: drawings and 3D computer graphics.
The Dungeons - Weblog about arts in general and more specifically music and cinema.
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(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Arts and Entertainment A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Arts and Entertainment Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." 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