Be A Greek for a Day in Nevada at the Glendi Festival
CARSON CITY, Nevada – Be a Greek for a day at Mourelatos Lakeshore Resort on the beach on Tahoe’s North Shore. Enjoy and participate in a traditional Glendi Greek Festival that will feature authentic...
View ArticleThis Week in Greek History: 4/24-4/30
April 24: On this day in 1184 BC, the traditionally accepted date of the fall of the city-state of Troy occurred. The Trojan War was fought between Greek city states generally in the Achaea region of...
View ArticleDukakis Talks to TNH, Blames Electoral College System for Trump’s Victory
BOSTON, MA – Former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic Presidential Nominee Michael Dukakis told The National Herald he blames the Electoral College system for Donald Trump’s victory in the...
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Gianaris, Simotas, Constantinides in Astoria Park Rally for Climate Action
By Eleni Sakellis ASTORIA – On a hot spring evening, emphasizing the fact that temperatures have been setting record highs in recent years, New York City Council Member Costa Constantinides hosted a...
View ArticleLe Petit Greek Hotel & Restaurant: Commitment to Health and Excellence
By Vasilis Papoutsis LOS ANGELES, CA – Brothers Thomas and Dimitris Houndalas are continuing a family tradition in the hospitality business that started over a hundred years ago. Older brother Thomas...
View ArticleCity Natives Return for All Saints Event in Weirton
WEIRTON — All Saints Greek Orthodox Church will be celebrating 100 years of Eastern Orthodoxy in Weirton May 13-14, and welcoming home many sons and daughters of the church who are returning to the...
View ArticleGreek Orthodox Volunteers Feed Thousands of Salt Lake’s Homeless
What do 7,000 slices of cheese, 1,000 pounds of ham and 500 loaves of bread add up to? The answer: 3,500 sack lunches to feed Salt Lake City’s homeless, as The Salt Lake Tribune reports. That’s the...
View ArticleMilo Yiannopolos is Planning to Start New Media, with $12M in Backing
Alt-right provocateur of Greek descent, Milo Yiannopolos, has wrangled $12 million from secret investors to launch a new media company focused on “making the lives of journalists, professors,...
View ArticleAlbert Henrichs, Professor of Greek Literature, Dies at 74
lbert Henrichs, a longtime Classics professor at Harvard, died on April 16. He was 74. The 10th Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and the first to have been neither born in the United States nor...
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Petros Sofikitis’ First Solo Overseas Exhibition Impresses Art-Lovers
By Eleni Sakellis BROOKLYN – Greek photographer Petros Sofikitis presented his first overseas solo exhibition, Hinterland, which opened on Friday, Apr. 28 in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn....
View ArticleNYC Launches Ferry Service with Queens, East River Routes
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has launched its new ferry service. The NYC Ferry service started Monday with a Rockaway, Queens, route . The area got priority because residents there have some of the...
View ArticleGreek Orthodox Church in Kankakee Bids Farewell to its Longtime Pastor
KANKAKEE, IL – The Greek Orthodox community here is bidding farewell to its longtime pastor, the Rev. William Conjelko, who presided over his last Liturgy on Sunday at the Annunciation Church in...
View ArticleGreek Centenarian Stella Theodore Manios Celebrates 100th Birthday in...
GREENVILLE, SC – Bankers and the wealthy of Greenville have long spotted Stella Theodore Manios, Independent Mail reports. They’d see her coming and either hide or have their checkbooks ready by the...
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Man Suspected of Shooting 7 People in San Diego Identified as Peter Selis
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police shot and killed a 49-year-old man suspected of shooting seven people Sunday at a birthday pool party in an apartment complex near the University of California, San Diego,...
View ArticleReince Priebus on Trump’s Libel Laws Changes, Duterte’s Invitation
WASHINGTON – White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said the Trump administration has “looked at” changes to libel laws that would curtail press freedoms, but said “whether that goes anywhere is a...
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Logothetis Keynote Speaker at the Inaugural Alumni Awards ACS Athens
By Eleni Sakellis NEW YORK – On Sunday, April 30, the American Community Schools of Athens (ACS Athens), a Pre-K-12 institution located in Halandri, Athens, honored two distinguished alumni with...
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Zeus + Dione Bring Greek Fashions to Bergdorf Goodman (Video, Photos)
By Demetris Tsakas NEW YORK –On Saturday, April 29 Greek fashion was on display at the famous Bergdorf Goodman store on 5th Avenue in the heart of Manhattan, as the Greek company Zeus + Dione showed...
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Metropolitan Iakovos Led Chicago Greek Parade (Photos)
CHICAGO – The rain held off for the Greek Independence Parade in Greektown, Chicago, organized by Enosis. His Eminence Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago led the parade again this year joined by the Greek...
View ArticleAstoria’s Akropolis Meat Market Profiled in the NY Times
ASTORIA – The Akropolis Meat Market owned by John Gatzonis, 69, is well-known in the Greek community for over forty years. The business was recently profiled in the New York Times which noted the...
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St. George Cathedral in Hartford Celebrates Patron Saint
HARTFORD, CT – The Greek community of Hartford celebrated the feast day of their patron saint at St. George Cathedral, the Orthodox cathedral of the State of Connecticut, with His Eminence Archbishop...
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