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Man Hurling Racial Slurs Kills 2 on Train; Suspect’s Extreme Views Eyed (Video)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two people died and another was hurt in a stabbing on a Portland light-rail train after a man yelled racial slurs at two young women who appeared to be Muslim, one of whom was...
View ArticleOur Everyday Greek: Μαύρο Είναι tο Μολύβι, Black is the Pencil and the Pen
Let’s learn the adjective black together with the desktop vocabulary. Greek word Pronunciation Meaning Ο μαύρος O MAvros black (masculine) Η μαύρη EE MAvri black (feminine) Το μαύρο TO MAvro black...
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The 4th Cretan World Music Festival Opens on July 19 (Vid)
CHANIA – The 4th Cretan World Music Festival takes place on July 19 at the Kapsomenos Foundation. The event is organized by talented world jazz violinist and festival founder Maria Manousaki who spoke...
View ArticleTrump Considers Dispatching Priebus to Serve as Ambassador to Greece:...
WASHINGTON — His whirlwind foreign trip complete, President Donald Trump faces a slew of political and policy challenges at home and mushrooming inquiries into allegations that Russia meddled in the...
View ArticleGreek-American Lawyer for Accused Rapist Arrested for Threatening Victim with...
BALTIMORE – Baltimore attorney Christos Vasiliades, 38, was arrested and charged with trying to intimidate the alleged rape victim in the case by telling her that testifying would make her vulnerable...
View ArticleSecond Annual Timarete Hellenic Art Festival Opens June 1
NEW YORK – The 2nd Annual Timarete Hellenic Art Festival opens on June 1 and runs through June 15 with a variety of events, exhibitions, activities, and performances to attend. The festival’s purpose...
View ArticleΝΥΤ: U.S. Veterans Use Greek Tragedy to Tell Us About War
The ancient Greeks didn’t go to the theater just to be entertained. Aristotle believed that audiences saw themselves reflected in tragic characters and that the very act of watching a character’s...
View ArticleCoast Guard Member Charged with Attacking Woman in Her Long Island Home
MONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a U.S. Coast Guard member attacked a 67-year-old New York woman while she slept in her Long Island home before passing out in her bed. Police tell Newsday...
View ArticleA Greek Has Created One of the Most Successful Wine Importing Companies in...
Takis Soldatos, the Greek, lives in Sweden and has created one of Sweden’s most successful wine importing companies, Oenoforos, with over $100 million in sales at the monopoly, according to the Forbes....
View ArticleGreek NBA All-Star Antentokounmpo in New York
NEW YORK – Greek-American youth of the New York Metropolitan area will have the unique opportunity to participate in basketball exhibition games coached by the NBA All-Star and Milwaukee Bucks’ player...
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Lifeline Hellas Welcomes Ardis Gardella from US and Aid for Deaf Children in...
ATHENS – The humanitarian organization Lifeline Hellas welcomed Mrs. Ardis Gardella, Executive Director of The Holley Institute in the United States and audiologist Dr. Jill Courson, who visited Greece...
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Annual Commemoration of the Fall of Constantinople in Chicago
CHICAGO – The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, together with the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Hellenic Society of Constantinople, and in association with the Greek America...
View ArticleGreece Sends 20 Artifacts for Getty Exhibition “Egypt-Greece-Rome: Cultures...
ATHENS (ANA) – An exhibition on Egypt’s culture and its influence on the Greek and Roman culture will be held from March 27 to September 9 2018 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, USA. The largest...
View ArticleMalliotakis Calls on Mayor to Boycott Puerto Rican Day Parade
NEW YORK – Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis was joined by the son of a victim of the 1975 Fraunces Tavern bombing and the federal prosecutor who waged the first successful prosecution of the FALN...
View ArticleNational Hellenic Museum Hosts Gala at Navy Pier
By Anthe Mitrakos CHICAGO, IL – Over 650 Greek-Americans and their friends attended the National Hellenic Museum Gala at the Aon Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier, May 13. The event’s theme this year,...
View ArticleEvzone AHEPA Chapter: a Westchester Success Story
NEW ROCHELLE, NY – Two imaginative and committed individuals, Joseph Keane and James Zafiros have helped to propel their Westchester AHEPA (American Hellenic Education Progressive Association) chapter...
View ArticleThis Week in Greek History
May 29: On this day in 1453, Hellenism changed forever as the Ottoman Turks successfully captured Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The Turks and neighboring Muslim empires had...
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Nikos Soukos and Iphigenia Kanara Honored by New England Medical Society
BOSTON, MA – The New England Hellenic Medical and Dental Society (NEHMDS) held their 19th Hygeia Award and Scholarship Dinner at Davio’s Restaurant in Boston and honored with the Hygeia Award Dr. Nikos...
View ArticleOur Everyday Greek: Γκρίζα, Grey are My Costume, My Pants and My Shoes
Ο γκρίζος, -α, -ο means grey. Greek word Pronunciation Meaning Ο γκρίζoς O GREEzos grey (masculine) Η γκρίζα EE GREEza grey (feminine) Το γκρίζο TO GREEzo grey (neuter) O...
View ArticleGeneral Secretariat for Greeks Abroad Accepting Applications for its...
NEW YORK – The General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad is accepting applications for its first Philoxenia Program Trip to Greece aimed to further enhance the bonds between twenty (20) U.S. and Canadian...
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