Life

Olive oil, the gem of Greek cuisine and a real liquid gold for longevity, is often the target of fraud and substituted by other inferior oils. In order to spot instances of olive oil fraud, there are certain things...

The annual Patras Carnival, the largest in Greece, will open on Saturday with a ceremony at the main square of Aghios Georgios. This year's theme is "Be Unplugged!" and the events began on Wednesday, with the town crier riding on...

The DINKWAD (double income, no kids, with a dog) lifestyle trend could be the new "American Dream" for Millenials and Gen Z. So-called DINKWADs have become the latest sensation on TikTok and other social media apps. Acronyms for other variations...

The exact net worth of Athina Onassis, the only surviving descendant of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, is unknown, but most analysts estimate it is now much less than one billion dollars. The life of the 37-year-old heiress has resembled...

According to Aristotle, the world was based on five elements—earth, fire, water, air, and ether. Culinary professor Giorgos Palisidis has now created what he calls the "Aristotelian Menu," based on foods and ingredients from northern Greece, the birthplace of...

Saudi Arabia has recently unveiled plans for a 75-mile-long skyscraper called the Mirror Line that will stretch across its desert, housing up to five million people. It is projected to cost a whopping $1 trillion. The state-of-the-art skyscraper will be...

A documentary on Stefanos Miltsakakis, the legendary Greek American fighter who became a popular bad guy in action movies, was released recently. The Greek American actor died in 2019 at the age of 60 in Los Angeles. Born in humble surroundings...

Determining which countries have the highest IQ and are the smartest in the world is difficult because there are so many different factors to consider. However, the site World Population Review recently put together a list of the top nations...

Poor Things, a multi-golden globe winning film by Yorgos Lanthimos, a Greek film-maker, dominated the Greek box office upon its release. Lanthimos's film, celebrating female equality and liberation, sold more than two hundred thousand tickets within fifteen days of its...

Gold has been found in some wonderfully strange places over the years, including one bar worth $50,000, which was found by a plumber underneath a bathtub in Canada. Plumber Alif Babul was dismantling a bathtub at a home in Calgary,...

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos‘ film The Favourite, which had ten Academy Award nominations, will make its Netflix debut on January 23rd. The Favourite is a 2018 historical black comedy film co-produced and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay by...

The world's five richest men have more than doubled their wealth since 2020, a report published over the weekend says. These billionaires’ net worth has skyrocketed 114 percent to a total of $869 billion after taking inflation into account, according...

White olives known as leucocarpa, or leucolea, is a rare variety of olive tree, mainly found in the south of Italy, in the region historically known as "Magna Graecia," or Greater Greece. Derived from the Greek words for white (leucos),...

The long-forgotten and only English-language movie of iconic Greek film star Aliki Vougiouklaki has recently been digitally restored and broadcasted for the first time on a Greek national network sixty years after its London and New York theater premieres. Written...

Steve Reeves made his cinematic breakthrough in 1958, with the movie Hercules. By the late 1950s, the sword and sandals genre was already becoming popular, but Reeves was the first performer to fully embody the physique of ancient Greek...