UPDATE: Greeks Live from the White House
WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, Aug. 6, senior officials of the Obama Administration invited Diaspora leaders to meet at the White House to discuss the crisis in Greece. TNH Senior Writer Dean Sirigos...
View ArticleStreet Bordering Astoria’s Athens Square Co-Named “Dennis Syntilas Way”
ASTORIA – The name of the late Dennis (Demosthenes) Syntilas, prime mover of the project that became Athens Square in Astoria wi ll soon grace the street signs on 30 th Avenue between 29 th and 30 th...
View ArticleHis Pharmaceutical Genius Made Yancopoulos Rich Helping Humanity
With a penchant for creating world-class drugs, George Yancopoulos, 55, has gone from doing research at Columbia to superstar status in his industry, and made himself a billionaire doing it. Pushed by...
View ArticleFemale Greek Slave Sculpture Opened America’s Eyes to Nudity
Nudity is everywhere these days in the Internet age but Americans were first introduced to it in the arts more than 170 years ago through the sculpture of a woman called Greek Slave. The work by Hiram...
View ArticleDukakis Narrates Film About Cold War Concentration Camps for Women
NEW YORK – If nobody knows the truth, is it still the truth? Beneath the Olive Tree, the remarkable documentary about the concentration camps for women during and after the Greek Civil War, is...
View ArticleJennifer Aniston Weds Theroux in Secret Ceremony
Long over her marriage to Brad Pitt, actress Jennifer Aniston has wedded again, this time to actor and long-time beau Justin Theroux. The couple exchanged vows Aug. 6 of their Bel Air estate, sources...
View ArticleHELLENIC HAPPENINGS FROM COAST TO COAST
BALTIMORE, MD – Everyone loves a small plate of delicious food. Long time Greek-American friends opened up a Cava Mezze in Baltimore, reported the Baltimore Sun. Mezze is not a new concept in the...
View ArticleWhite House Meeting Deemed “A Good Start,” Official Thanks Attendees
TNH Senior Writer Dean Sirigos reported live from the scene: Vice President Joe Biden, along with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, led a team of administration officials who invited...
View ArticleGreeks and Hawaii Pineapples
The Camarinos brothers were among the first Greeks to settle in Hawaii in the 1880s. Originally from the village of Tsintzina near Sparta the Camarinos family relocated to nearby Goritsa. What might...
View ArticleWhistleblower Kiriakou Helps Fight Greek Corruption
NEW YORK – John Kiriakou, the Greek-American counter-terrorism expert and former CIA employee who served 23 months in federal prison for disclosing classified information to journalists, visited Greece...
View ArticleStavrides: The Accidental Admiral
NEW YORK – Retired 4-Star Admiral James Stavridis, Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, will present a lecture titled, “21st...
View ArticleWhite House Meeting With Diaspora Leaders Brought Enthusiasm Tempered With...
NEW YORK – Important endeavors have a stream of causes, and the White House meeting between top administration officials and community leaders on August 6 is no exception. While the details of the...
View ArticleAdmiral Stavridis Speaks at Hamptons
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Retired 4-Star Admiral James Stavridis, Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, presented a lecture titled,...
View ArticleThe National Herald’s 100th Anniversary Celebration Classic Time
NEW YORK – After a century of bringing news to the Diaspora as the paper of record for the community, The National Herald in May marked its anniversary with festivities bringing together notables who...
View ArticleGreeks and Miracles over the Decades
[On August 2, Newsday featured an article titled “Claims of religious miracles on Long Island and in New York City,” focusing on various accounts of miracles over the decades relayed by residents of...
View ArticlePoll Says 67% of Greeks Anti-Semitic
NEW YORK – A new global poll conducted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in which more than 10,000 residents of 19 countries around the world were asked to respond to 11 statements that the poll...
View ArticleFr. Papanikolaou Was Leader, Visionary
PALOS HILLS, IL – Father Byron Papanikolaou, who served the historic parish of Sts. Constantine and Helen in Palos Hills, IL for 55 years, passed away on August 11. In addition to being a renowned...
View ArticleHellenic Happenings Coast to Coast
BALTIMORE, MD – Everyone loves a small plate of delicious food. Long time Greek-American friends opened up a Cava Mezze in Baltimore, reported the Baltimore Sun. Mezze is not a new concept in the...
View Article“We all Scream for Ice Cream!”
HOUSTON, TX – Back in late April, the ice cream man came to our street. It was a quiet spring day, a reminder of why we lived in Houston while the rest of the country dug out from the previous...
View ArticleBlue Dream Gala to Benefit Refugees International, Spotlights Greek Crisis Aid
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – The long-awaited annual Blue Dream Gala, which is held at The Muses Cultural Center and spills out beneath tents evoking the Isles of the Aegean on the grounds of the Kimisis Church...
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