Giannis Antetokounmpo is getting his own signature shoe, and he showed the general public a first look at the Greek Freak 1s on Friday. The Milwaukee Bucks star hinted earlier in the day that the Nike shoe had an official name in a Tweet that got ...
Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Greece and FYROM Seek to Reconcile Name Dispute in Skopje
Greek FM Nikos Kotzias (R) with FYROM counterpart Nikola Dimitrov (file photo). Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) counterpart Nikola Dimitrov will meet on Saturday with UN mediator Matthew ...
Greek Navy Pinpoints Sunken WWII Submarine in Aegean
The Greek navy has found the exact spot where the submarine Katsonis was sunk by German forces in the Aegean in September 1942. According to media reports, the Hellenic Navy’s Hydrographic Service used state-of-the-art electronic equipment to find the ...
Greek Tourism Begins Digital Transition Journey
“Through smartphones, before visiting our country, tourists can plan itineraries and be informed on the experiences they can live in GREECE.” – Digital ...
How Greece can still be represented at the 2018 World Cup
Greece may not have qualified for the 2018 World Cup, but there could still be a Hellenic flavour in Russia
The big picture: Butlin’s by the Sea, 1972 by Martin Parr
An early Martin Parr picture of a crowded pool in Filey, North Yorkshire shows a spirit of social realism Martin Parr took this photograph in 1972, when shivering in crowded public baths was the archetypal experience of knock-kneed British seven-year-olds. At the time Parr, aged 20, was a student of photography at Manchester Poly. His real education, though, came from his paid holiday work as an official snapper at Butlin’s by the Sea in Filey, North Yorkshire. This picture, part of an exhibition of Parr’s early work opening next week, was taken in his first year on the job, as a “black and white walkie”. He graduated the following summer to the coveted status of “colour walkie”, able to take pictures at the Hawaiian/Caribbean beachcomber bar, where a tropical storm was conjured every half an hour. You could say that Parr’s mature style as a photographer followed from that promotion. The colour-saturated images of fast food and sunburnt flesh, with which he made his name in the 1980s with series such as The Last Resort, were still to come. And you could also say that the shift in Parr’s style mirrored a shift in British society. His holiday subjects became more singular, atomised; those left behind by packaged fortnights to Greece and Spain. Continue reading...
Top GREEK court to rule on Russian whistleblower's fate on June 14
Greece's Supreme Court will rule on June 14 on whether to execute the European arrest warrants issued against a Russian whistleblower who helped ...
