Pan-Macdeonians Petition President Obama on FYROM Name
The Pan-Macedonian Association USA has generated a petition calling for the reversal of President George W. Bush’s 2004 Executive Order recognizing the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) as...
View ArticleCommunity Holy Week Turnout Up from 2015
NEW YORK – Attendance at the Greek Orthodox Churches throughout the New York Metropolitan area saw a rise in attendance during this year’s Holy Week as compared to 2015. The primary reason appears to...
View ArticleMother’s Day Gift Ideas- Books
The origins of Mother’s Day trace back to Ancient Greek celebrations of the mother goddess Cybele, the only known goddess from Phrygia, a region of Asia Minor from the 6th century BC. Worship of the...
View ArticleKatrantzou’s Designs at Met Museum
NEW YORK– The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) opened on May 5 and runs through August 14. The exhibition...
View ArticleGreek Designer at Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Gala
NEW YORK– The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) opened on May 5 and runs through August 14. The exhibition...
View ArticleGreek-Amer. Mayors through the Years
With the recent election of Chrysostomos (Chris) Alahouzos as mayor of Tarpon Springs, FL we are again reminded of the advances all Greeks have made in America. Alahouzos is far from the first...
View ArticleAn Easter Odyssey On Crete
On our Olympic Airways flight from Athens to Rethymnon, Crete, I sat on the aisle in a three-seat row, my wife, Diana, in the middle seat beside me. The window seat was occupied by a white-haired, wiry...
View ArticleSt. Thomas Church in Cherry Hill Celebrates Patron Saint
St. Thomas Church in Cherry Hill, NJ celebrated their patron saint on the feast day of the Apostle. His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos presided over the vesper services on Saturday evening, and the...
View ArticleFollow Your Spirit & Upon This Charge Cry God… for Hellas & St. George
In the midst of the joyous Paschal period, we celebrate the feast of St. George the Great Martyr, one of Romanity’s greatest heroes. As the saintly Greek author Alexandros Papadiamantis notes “the...
View ArticlePan-Macedonians Push Obama
The Pan-Macedonian Association USA has generated a petition calling for the reversal of President George W. Bush’s 2004 Executive Order recognizing the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) as...
View ArticleJimmy T. Patronis Receives Alumni Award in FL
PANAMA CITY, FL – Gulf Coast State College honored Jimmy T. Patronis of Panama City, FL at the 7th Annual Distinguished and Rising Alumni Awards event in March. The son of Jimmy and Helen Patronis, he...
View ArticleRebirth of Greek Cuisine in Boston
BOSTON, MA – Greek restaurants are popping up all over Boston, not least of which DORETTA TAVERNA & RAW BAR, the Boston Globe reported. Other new restaurants in the past year, the Globe wrote,...
View ArticleArvanitaki Gets Perimeter Institute Chair
WATERLOO, CANADA – On April 28, the Perimeter Institute announced the inaugural Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Aristarchus Chair of Theoretical Physics, Asimina Arvanitaki. The collaboration between...
View ArticleOther Mothers: Not Just About the One You Were Born To
HOUSTON, TX – I used to joke that my mother bankrupted me in May with all the gifts. Her nameday was May 5th (St. Irene), her birthday was May 19th, and Mother’s Day is in between. What do you get a...
View ArticleEx-NY Senate Leader Skelos, Son Face Corruption Sentence
NEW YORK — For the second time in less than two weeks, a once-powerful New York politician is facing sentencing in a spate of corruption cases that have roiled Albany. Former Senate majority leader...
View ArticleMMA Costume Showcase For Katrantzou
NEW YORK– The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) opened on May 5 and runs through August 14. The exhibition...
View ArticleDean Skelos, Ex-NY Senate leader gets 5 years in prison for corruption
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A once-powerful New York politician convicted of using his position as Senate majority leader to pressure companies to provide hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleAstoria Street Conamed for the Late Demetris Kastanas
ASTORIA – The conaming of 31st Avenue between Steinway Street and 41st Street for the late Demetris Kastanas took place on May 7 under overcast skies. The event honored the Greek-born Kastanas who...
View ArticleSeeing Pergamon, Hellenistic Kingdoms
Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) on April 18 and runs through July 17. The exhibition covers the art and artistry of the...
View ArticleFeeding the 5,000 in Union Square
With so many people starving in the world, wasting food is a growing problem in developed countries around the world. In the United States, charities like City Harvest attempt to remedy the problem...
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