Monday night on the sacred uninhabited Greek island Delos: a spectacular classical concert sending a sound message for the climate change. It is is first time a concert was held at the UNESCO World Heritage site of ancient ruins. The emblematic island of Delos, the cosmopolitan center of the Mediterranean …
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Popular Greek singer Dakis passes away at 79
Popular Greek singer Dakis died on Sunday at the age of 79 after a long battle with cancer. Dakis whose real name was Vrassidas Haralambidis was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1943. In 1963 he came to Greece and a year later he started singing in clubs. He spoke six …
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Reunite the Marbles: Desmond Child, Alice Cooper, Bonny Tyler to rock the Parthenon
Grammy Award-winning American composer and producer Desmond Child, Alice Cooper, Bonny Tyler , Sakis Rouvas and other musicians join forces in a concert with the aim of reunite the Parthenon Marbles. The concert with the title “Desmond Child Rocks the Parthenon” is scheduled to take place at the Odeon of …
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 to film in Greece; Casting call for Corfu
The cult film by Nia Vardalos, the sequel: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, was given the green light and filming is to take place partly on the island of Corfu, local media Corfu TV News reported. The local media added that the film production is also seeking to hire …
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“Ad astra, Vangelis”: Space agencies pay tribute to great Greek composer
“Ad astra, Vangelis” the NASA tweeted a few hours after the news that internationally acknowledged Greek composer and musician Vangelis had passed away. With its farewell “to the stars” the NASA highlighted the scores the musician composed for the explorations to the Jupiter mission. Ad astra, Vangelis. The film composer …
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Famous composer Vangelis Papathanasiou passes away at 79 in Paris UPD
Famous Greek composer Vangelis has passed away at the age of 79 in France. Vangelis Papathanasiou was hospitalized in Paris after he was infected with Covid-19, state broadcaster ERT reported. Vangelis died on Tuesday but his family announced it just today, Thursday, as it wanted privacy in their mourning. He …
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Amanda Georgiadi and “Die Together” rank 8. at Eurovision 2022
Amanda Georgiadi enchanted audiences and viewers with “Die together” and won 8th place in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The representative of Greece on the stage in Turin was applauded by the audience and won the impressions by entering the top ten. The Greek-Norwegian singer collected a total of 215 …
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Gallery Walk: 37 art galleries in Athens open to public May 12-13
Thirty-seven Athenian art galleries will be open to the public until evening for the annual Gallery Walk on Thursday and Friday, May 12-13. Organized by the Athens Culture Net of the Municipality of Athens and the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, the event will keep the galleries open as late as …
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Disney+ releases trailer for “Rise,” based on story of Antetokounmpo family
Disney Plus has released the trailer for “Rise,” a film based on the real-life story of the Nigerian-Greek Antetokounmpo family that produced the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league – Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Laker …
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Legendary Greek porn star Kostas Gousgounis passes away at 92
Legendary Greek porn star Kostas Gousgounis passed away at the age of 92. He died last Friday at an Athens hospital after suffering a heart attack a few days previously, media reported. His burial took place on Monday in Artemida, in eastern Attika. Gousgounis, who was born in Larissa on …
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Emma Stone in Athens for premiere of “Bleat” directed by Lanthimos
Hollywood star Emma Stone is currently in Greece for the premiere and promotion of the short, silent black and white film “Bleat” directed by Yiorgos Lanthimos. She arrived in Greek capital Athens on May 4 and her professional duties did not hinder her to watch a basketball game live in …
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“Athenian Routes”: Athens Municipality program in May also in English
The Athens Culture Net of the Municipality of Athens offers the “Athenian Routes” a program with historical tours, artistic experiences and walks in the month of May. The aim of the program is that participants get to know through the routes special parts of the city, invisible corners, but also …
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Private collector Daskalopoulos donates 350 works of contemporary art
Prominent private collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos has announced the donation of a large part of his collection of important works of contemporary art, which consists of more than 500 pieces, to four museums located in in Greece, Britain and the USA. The donation by Daskalopoulos, who is the custodian of the …
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Louise Bourgeois’ monumental Spider “Maman” installed at SNFCC park, Athens
The monumental spider sculpture Maman by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois has been installed at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) and is available to the Greek public for viewing. The iconic giant spider Maman (1999), one of the works that made Bourgeois internationally famous , will be on display …
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Internationally acclaimed Norwegian photographer Knut Bry arrested on Lesvos
Famous Norwegian photographer Knut Bry was arrested on the island of Lesvos on Wednesday afternoon, while shooting pictures at the harbor of the island in the eastern Aegean Sea. According to local non-governmental organizations, Bry was arrested on the charge of espionage. In a brief statement, the Norwegian Embassy in …
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British historian Mark Mazower receives honorary Greek citizenship
Internationally acclaimed British historian and award-winning author Mark Mazower was sworn in as a Greek citizen on Monday, in recognition of his “exceptional contribution” to Greece. At a special event, 63-year-old Mazower was sworn in as a Greek citizen by Interior Minister Makis Voridis. Specializing in Balkan and Greek history, …
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Emblematic Greek painter, Alekos Fasianos, passes away at 86
One of Greece’s most important contemporaneity painters, Alekos Fasianos, passed away at the age of 86 early Sunday evening. He died in his home, surrounded by his wife and their two children. In the last years he was suffering from health problems. The emblematic painter sealed with his works a …
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Ten foreign musicians who live in the country sing “their own Greece”
To celebrate the 200 years of Greek independence, public radio station Kosmos 93.6 asked ten foreign musicians who live and work in Greece to chose a favorite song and cover it in their native language -and music genre. The results were compelling, and the show was broadcasted on March 24 2021, …
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Investigation ordered over movie with sex scene at Acropolis
Greece’s Culture Ministry launched an investigation Friday following the online release of a short film showing two men having sex at the ancient Acropolis in Athens. The 36-minute movie, titled “Departhenon*,” was released on Dec. 21 but came to the attention of authorities this week. The Culture Ministry said it …
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TIME magazine picks symbol picture of Evia wildfires as “Best Photo of 2021”
Editors of Time magazine picked as the Best of 2021 the heartbreaking photo of a desperate elderly woman with the flames of the wild fires nearing her home in Evia in the background. The picture was taken by photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis for the agency SOOC on August 8, 2021. On …
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