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Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

The Iphigenia Quartet review – picking over a Greek myth's bloody bones

Euripides’s gory tale of murder is recast in four short plays that draw in Greek soldiers, Hollywood directors and the maid who found Agamemnon’s corpse Myths untangled and rewoven … Shannon Tarbet (Iphigenia) and Susie Trayling (Clytemnestra) in ...


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Greek (Brusco) and Korean (Dooby’s) combine cuisines: One day only

Are you one of the great food explorers, stopping at no end to taste what is new and unique then you don’t want to miss this melding of ethnic flavors from Brusco and Dooby’s. One day only, this Friday, May 6th from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. come to Cava’s ...


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Greek Gov’t Optimistic that Agreement is Imminent

The Greek government is optimistic that a deal with creditors will be signed within the next few days, based on statements by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk. Sources from Maximos Mansion say ...


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Top 10 landmarks in gay and lesbian literature

From Walt Whitman to Colette and even Virginia Woolf, these books offer readers a vision of how we might live differently, and better Ask me on another day and it would be other books: Shakespeare’s sonnets, Gilgamesh, the Greek Anthology, Sappho, Katherine Philips, Plato, Jean Genet, Ronald Firbank … So these 10 items are mere suggestions, not commandments. My favourite working definition is that a gay text is one that is amenable to a gay reading. As simple as that. These categories exist not for their own sake, or for critics’, but in the service of the reader – the gay or lesbian reader first of all, but others too. Continue reading...


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Ousted Greece Coach Now Champion

Fired by Greece, Claudio Ranieri is still struggling to comprehend how he managed to transform Leicester from 5,000-1 outsiders to Premier League champions.


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Cheap Greek Eats To (Not) Die For

Two Athens restaurants were listed by the web site Buzz Feed as among the 31 Places Around The World You Should Eat At Before You Die" - and they're cheap.


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Greek Refugee Camps Full Up Now

Despite no arrivals of refugees on Greek islands for four days through May 3, camps and detention centers where they are being processed are full.


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