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Actor Tommy Sklavos in NY to Discuss US Film Projects
By Flavia Sgoifo NEW YORK – Greek-Canadian actor Tommy Sklavos is currently visiting New York as he is discussing some new projects with film companies in the U.S.A. Sklavos graduated from...
View ArticleStudents of the William Spyropoulos School of St. Nicholas Sing the Kalanta...
NEW YORK – Students of the William Spyropoulos Greek-American School of St. Nicholas in Flushing on Thursday morning visited the exhibition for the Olympic Games of Athens 1896 hosted by the Consulate...
View ArticleHoly Cross Students at Whitestone, NY Sing the Kalanta
WHITESTONE – The students of the grades 2-4 chorus of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Day School of Whitestone performed the kalanta directed by Music Teacher and Church Chanter Demetri Michael who...
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Greek Diaspora Fellows to Conduct Projects with Greek Universities
NEW YORK – On December 14, the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program announced that beginning in January, twenty-one Greek- and Cypriot-born scholars, hailing from a cross-section of sixteen prominent...
View ArticleNew York Congresswoman Maloney Meets With Daughters of Penelope
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), Co-Chair and Co–Founder of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, met with the Hellenic women’s philanthropic group Daughters of...
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St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church Celebrates 30 Years
LOS ANGELES, CA – St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church’s 30th anniversary was commemorated by a two-day community celebration on December 3 and 4. Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco presided over the...
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Mount Sinai Queens Interfaith Celebration
ASTORIA – Clergy from Astoria, Long Island City and Western Queens neighborhoods converged on December 1 for an interfaith celebration at the medical offices in the new Mount Sinai Queens Ambulatory...
View ArticleN.Y. Agape Luncheon: Working Together to Make Dream Come True
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Around 400 Philoptochos ladies gathered on Dec. 10 at the Long Island Marriot for an elegant celebration benefiting the St. Michael’s Home. The semiannual Agape Luncheon is a time for...
View ArticleAHEPA Honors Local Leader Nikitas Drakotos
RYE, NY – The James Plevritis-Joseph C. Keane New Rochelle AHEPA Chapter No. 405 in its annual Initiation/Luncheon, the chapter’s signature event, honored AHEPA Brother, Nikitas Drakotos for his...
View ArticleTarpon Springs Audio Walking Tour Focuses on Greektown
TARPON SPRINGS, FL – The Greek-American experience in the City of Tarpon Springs, FL will be the highlight of an audio walking tour made possible through a grant from the Florida Humanities Council...
View ArticleComposer Gasparatos’ Body of Work Echoes from Greece to Brooklyn
NEW YORK – The prolific, award-winning Greek composer and sound artist Stavros Gasparatos is building an impressive career with projects around the world. His family originally is from Kefalonia, then...
View ArticleTarpon Springs Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. – The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) made its first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017, which includes a grant of $10,000 to the City of Tarpon Springs. NEA...
View ArticleGianaris, Crowley, Simotas Call Probe of Non-profit Urban Ministry School
ASTORIA – New York State Senator Michael Gianaris, Congressman Joseph Crowley, and Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas called on Attorney General Eric Scheiderman to investigate possible mismanagement of...
View ArticleNew Year’s Carols Raise Funds for Charity
LONG ISLAND CITY – The New Year’s carols and songs of Epirus were performed by members of the Yannina Cultural Association- Georgios Makridis, Demetrios Makridis, and Demetrios Xaxiris on Dec. 30. The...
View ArticleAchilleas Georgiades Tells TNH about the Basso’s Fur Heist
NEW YORK – Expensive furs worth millions of dollars were stolen from designer Dennis Basso’s New York City store on Christmas Eve. Three thieves smashed into the store at 825 Madison Avenue using a...
View ArticleNewborn Left in Trash By Greek-American Mother Meets Rescuers
NEW YORK – Marcus Wallace has never met his birth mother. At age 31, the Brooklyn resident did, however meet the men who saved his life on a cold January morning. As a newborn, he was pulled from a...
View ArticleThe Shocking Story of Kitty Dukakis’ Recovery from Alcoholism, Depression
BROOKLINE, Mass. — Her husband lost the 1988 Presidential election but Kitty Dukakis lost more, falling into a depression and alcoholic haze that wasn’t lifted until she found electroshock therapy. “An...
View ArticleGreece’s Top Film Hit Comes to NY: Director Papakalaitis on Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart, the film that rocked Greece, breaking box office records and ranking No. 1 over any film there in the last decade, is ready to win new audiences in the US. It opens Friday January 13 at...
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Feast of the Epiphany Celebrated Around the World
NEW YORK – The feast of the Epiphany was celebrated across the globe on Jan. 6. The holiday commemorates the baptism of Jesus Christ and the appearance of the Trinity, the Theophany. After presiding...
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Tarpon Springs Celebrates Holy Theophany
TARPON SPRINGS, FL – His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios Geron of America led the festivities surrounding the Feast of Theophany, the Feast of Lights on Jan. 6, which is traditionally celebrated by the...
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