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Athens Fine Arts Festival Turns Six

Athens Fine Arts Festival will be held for the sixth consecutive year in the Greek capital. Until now, it has known great success in the arts field, as it is one of the most successful communication platforms among friends...

Survey Says! Greeks Unhappy With EU

Greek citizens tend to feel negative about the future within the European Union (EU), according to a nationwide survey presented by the University of Athens, conducted within a series of actions organized by the university aiming at supporting students...

Greek Tastes At Europe Fest In Malaysia

Greek tastes are going to visit Malaysia through the 12th Tastes of Europe Fest. It is organized by the EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUMCCI) and will take place at the hotel The Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur in...

Greek Tastes At N.Y. Fancy Food Show

Greece will participate in the international exhibition Summer Fancy Food Show 2013, with the entries being readied by the Hellenic Foreign Trade Board (HEPO). Some 38t Greek export companies will project the official branding of the Greek food and...

Nana Mouskouri Honored In Quebec

The government of Quebec on May 29 honored internationally renowned singer Nana Mouskouri, who received the medal of the Order of Excellence of Quebec from Premier Pauline Marois, in a special ceremony in Quebec City. The award of the highest...

Attica Russians Preparing to Welcome Kirill

Russians living in Greece along with the Russian-speaking Greeks who were repatriated, are feverishly preparing for the arrival of Patriarch Kirill. "It's been more than 30 years since the last time the Patriarch of Russia officially visited Greece and they...

Greek Evening in Cava dei Tirreni

The Philhellene Mayor of the Italian city Cava dei Tirreni is organizing an evening dedicated to Greece and the Greek culture on June 1. The event is being organized in cooperation with the Greek Community of Naples and Campania, and...

Sixth World Naked Bike Ride in Thessaloniki

The World Naked Bike Ride will be held in the Greek city of Thessaloniki on June 7  for the sixth consecutive year. Organizers are calling citizens to say STOP to indecent exposure of humans and to the pollution of...

Yorgos Lanthimos Set to Begin First English Language Film

Academy Award nominee Yorgos Lanthimos, who garnered much attention for his film "Dogtooth," is set to make his English-language film debut with "The Lobster." The director will begin shooting the film in Ireland this fall. The love story takes place in...

Protopsalti In Berlin Humanitarian Concert

On behalf of Greece, singer and composer Alkistis Protopsalti will participate in the June 7 HOPE, an international humanitarian concert, will take place at the Velodrom concert hall in Berlin. International and Iranian stars will lend their voices to...

Greek Waiters Practice Balancing Acts

Holding a tray full of glasses and a bottle of drink, waiters from all over Greece and other European countries ran a service -race on the morning of May 27. The race started from the Temple of Olympian Zeus and...

Onassis' Will Clouds Skorpios' Sale

The sale of the late tycoon Aristotle Onassis' private island of Skorpios by his granddaughter Athina to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who reportedly bought it for his daughter Ekaterina, will be reviewed by the Greek Council of State to...

“A Green Story” Party Attracts Stars & Greek-American A-Listers

"A Green Story" cast and crew celebrated the film's much-anticipated theatrical release with a party in the heart of Hollywood. The star-studded event took place at Madame Tussauds on May 24, 2013 in Hollywood, CA. Among the attendees of the event were actors Ed...

Adele Exarchopoulos Awarded Palme d’Or at Cannes

Greek-French actress Adele Exarchopoulos was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes film festival for her role in the film Blue is the Warmest Colour (original title: La Vie d’ Adele). This year the jury  was headed by...

Boston Marathon Runners Finally Finish

Thousands of runners and their supporters have completed the final mile of Boston Marathon, five weeks after they were interrupted when two bombs exploded near the finishing line on April 15. Three were killed and more than 260 were...