Hellenic Happenings Coast-to-Coast
This week’s National Herald’s compilation of events and people in the community includes Nia Vardalos’ sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding. TORONTO, CANADA – Canadian-Greek actress Nia Vardalos seems to...
View ArticleGus Constantine’s “Escaping Cyprus” Shouts: “Never Forget”
NEW YORK – Achilleos Argyros. Yiannis Zouvannis. Those are the first and last names on a notorious list: the 1,587 men and women missing after the illegal Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The...
View ArticleLoukianos Cavadias: Something of a Recorded Life
Over the past twenty years, the documentation on the early history of Greek music in North America has increased past all expectations. In just this short period of time public documents dating from...
View ArticleCoffee Mogul John A. Vassilaros is Mourned by Community
NEW YORK – On July 10, with grace and in peace, John A. Vassilaros, “our beautiful and admired Johnny,” in the words of family members “passed in the soulful glowing love of his family at their home...
View ArticleRep. Maloney Outraged By Troika Threats
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney released a letter on July 15 condemning what her office called “threats against Greek national security that were reportedly made during Greek debt...
View ArticleCretan Dad’s Assertiveness, Sales Lessons
By Lynn (Paitakes) Lotkowitcz If you’re lucky enough to experience great success in your career, you wonder what the conditions and influences are that impacted your path. It wasn’t until many years...
View ArticleFire Ravages St. Nicholas in Babylon
BABLYON, N.Y. – A fire broke out at 9:30 PM on July 21 that scorched the altar of the Church of St. Nicholas at 200 Great East Neck Road. “It was bad, but it could have been a lot, lot worse,” the...
View ArticleEfforts Behind the Scenes Regarding the Selection Of the Next Archbishop
CONSTANTINOPLE – Metropolitan Elpidoforos of Bursa, Abbot of the Holy Trinity Patriarchal Monastery on the island of Chalki, is making efforts to succeed Demetrios as the future Archbishop of America,...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Greek Crisis in US
ASTORIA, N.Y. – All across the United States Greek-Americans are feeling the effects of the ongoing financial crisis in Greece. Greek Chicagoans, a community of more than 300,000, are trying to adapt...
View ArticleSavopoulos Family’s Alleged Killer Eluded Immigration Authorities
WASHINGTON, DC – A story that continues to be featured prominently in the mainstream media is the murder of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco on July 1. Steinle was walking with her father along Pier...
View ArticleRep. Bilirakis Hears From Community Leaders in Astoria
ASTORIA, N.Y. – The conversation between the Greek- and Cypriot-American leaders and businesspersons with Congressman Gus Bilirakis of Florida at the Kopiaste Taverna on July 16 was heartfelt and...
View ArticleLA Greeks Welcome Special Olympics Flame of Hope in LA July 25
By Vasilis Papoutsis LOS ANGELES, CA – The World Summer Games, the flagship event for the Special Olympic movement, will take place in Los Angeles July 25-August 2. It will be the largest sporting...
View ArticleThe First Greeks in Hawaii: A Case of History Not Always Being What it Seems
Who writes history? Why? Are certain individuals somehow better qualified to read, understand and then compose history than you or I? Do you believe that the histories we are presented with are nothing...
View ArticleAnother Dark Anniversary for Cyprus, But Light Appears in Tunnel, Unity Hope
NEW YORK – Forty one years have now passed since Turkey’s invasion and occupation of Cyprus. At memorial services around the world and across the country, congregations chanted – “eternal be their...
View ArticleHamptons Greek Festival a Hit
SOUTHAMPTON – Thousands of people from across the New York Metropolitan Area journey to the Eastern tip of Long Island for the Hamptons Greek Festival Hosted by the Greek Orthodox Church of the...
View ArticleN. Chios Society Pelineon Celebrates Island Heritage & Feast of St. Markella
MONTICELLO, NY – A few times a year in New York State’s Sullivan County it feels like one is closer to a Greek village than the village of Monticello. This past weekend, the Northern Chios Society of...
View ArticleThanks to Nick Andriotis, Town of Nikia in Nisyros is Now Functional
NISYROS, GREECE – “The problem I had when staying in Nikia,” says Nick Andriotis, a Greek-American businessman about his native village on the Greek island of Nisyros, “is that when I’d get hungry I’d...
View ArticleFour First-Time Greek Travelers, Four Destinations, One Opinion For This Story
By John Guarente [In early June, four Americans set out on their first-ever journey to Greece. Gabe Guarente and his girlfriend, Bonnie Barcellos, along with Gabe’s brother, John, and John’s wife,...
View ArticleGreeks of Jackson Mississippi Weigh in On the Greek Crisis
JACKSON, MS – Last week The National Herald printed a story on Nia Vardalos’ response to media coverage on the Greek financial crisis. Greek-Americans in Jackson, MS said that the media is partly to...
View ArticleCelebrating Arianna Huffington: Post It
Last week, on July 15, 1950, Arianna Huffington was born. The media giant was born in Athens to father Konstantinos and mother Elli. She was named Ariadne-Anna Stasinopoulou. In 1986 she married...
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