Life
events
Austerity In Chios Rocket War
Vice Mayor of the Municipality of Homeroupolis, Nikos Nyktas, announced a 40 percent reduction in the number of rockets to be fired at the traditional Rocket War (Rouketopolemos) in relation to 2012.
The announcement was made during a press conference...
Education
Greek Students Travel To Asia Minor Past
Second-grade students of the Second General Lyceum of Eleftherio-Kordelio, a city in northwest Thessaloniki, started a research in September 2012 trying to collect as much information as possible on the period before and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and...
Hollywood
Greek UCLA Student Receives Emmy
Alethea C. Avramis, a student at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, took home third place honors at the 2013 College Television Emmy Awards held Saturday, April 25.
Avramis won the Emmy in the comedy category for her film,...
Culture
Benefits of Spending Easter With Family
The pace of modern life may not leave many families with sufficient time to share meals. With the Greek crisis and current economic problems adding extra stress and anxiety to parents and their children alike, Easter time seems like...
Canada
PM Harper Receives AHEPA Socrates Award
AHEPA-Canada (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association) awarded on April 26, in an event held in the ballroom of the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, with their highest honor, the Socrates Award.
According to...
Celebrities
Kardashians Fight with Hotel Owner in Santorini over Breaking Plates
After taking over Mykonos, Kim, Kourtney and the rest of the Kardashians visited Santorini where they also had a fight with a Greek hotel owner.
Local media reported that the first day the Kardashians arrived on the island they wanted...
Europe
Director Lygizos Wins Crossing Europe Award
Greek director Ektoras Lygizos has been awarded in the tenth Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, which took place in the Austrian city of Linz. He won the first prize (CROSSING EUROPE AWARD European Competition) and €10,000 for his film,...
Hollywood
‘Spartacus’ Star Cast in ‘Hercules 3D’
Liam McIntyre, who stars as the lead in the television series "Spartacus: War of the Damned," is joining Renny Harlin's feature film, "Hercules 3D."
The casting news comes just after the announcement that actor Kellan Lutz has been selected to...
entertainment
Bitsikokos Champ Of Injustice: Gods Among Us
The world champion of the hot video game Injustice: Gods Among Us is Marios 'Nivek' Bitsikokos, a veteran player of the games that are selling more than movie tickets around the world.
He is especially skilled at Tekken and Mortal...
Europe
Charalambous Joins Downton Abbey Cast
The 27-year-old Cypriot Ioannis Charalambous came to London to study Marketing. He gave it up for acting and now he's in the cast of the hugely-popular TV series Downton Abbey.
Charalambous was born and grew up in the island of...
Education
International Andreas Vesalius Conference in Zakynthos
On the occasion of the five hundred years from the birth of the world-famous anatomist Andreas Vesalius, a conference will take place from September 4 to 8, 2014 in Zakynthos, where he died. The event was announced by the...
Australia
Greek-Australian Nominee for The Best Jobs in the World
A young Greek-Australian who lives in Melbourne has entered the top 25 finalists nominated for one of the six places of The Best Jobs in the World, a competition in Australia.
Her name is Elenore Argyropoulos and was chosen among...
Europe
Alkinoos Ioannidis’s Concert in Berlin
The well-loved songwriter and performer Alkinoos Ioannidis gave a concert on April 25 in Passionskirche in Berlin. Ioannidis performed with Yiorgos Kaloudis, a cello and Cretan lyre virtuoso.
Ioannidis performed his own songs as well as songs written by Nikos...
events
Greek World Champion of Injustice Gods Among Us
Greek Marios ‘Nivek’ Bitsikokos was the winner in the world championship Injustice: Gods Among Us, which took place at an impressive night club in Paris. Bitsikokos had previously won the Pan-Hellenic Championship in Injustice: Gods Among Us in Athens.
He...
events
Harpsichordist Ventoura Premiere's Greek Composers
The soloist Julie Ventoura will give a concert at the Hellenic American Union (HAU) Theater on May 23, performing works for harpsichord written by four Greek composers ranked among the greatest of the 20th Century.
The works are: Mermaid’s reply...