Greek Herald news Greek Herald news Rss feed

  • Placido Domingo turns Allende short story into opera

    Under the baton of Placido Domingo, acclaimed Chilean writer Isabel Allende's short story "Una Venganza" ("An Act of Vengeance") emerges from the printed page as the opera "Dulce Rosa", a production with a Latin heart and Greek tragedy in its soul that premiered Friday in Los Angeles. "Dulce Rosa" is a further effort by the L.A. Opera, directed by Domingo, to bring lyric opera to a wider ...

  • Readers tips The Greek Islands

    Plan ahead We have made more than 30 trips travelling independently to the Greek Islands. My advice for travellers would be: Do your research beforehand. In particular study ferry routes and timetables in order to check the practicality of your proposed trip. For novice independent travellers the easiest option is to combine islands on the same ferry run, such as ...

  • Delivery service helps Greek people with financial problems

    There is nothing like mum's cooking and in Greece, where family is the bedrock of society a new delivery service is providing sustenance to people who have flown the nest. Matoula Dovinou cooks her son's favourite meals, packs them up in tupperware boxes and has them delivered to his ...

  • May 19 Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance Day

    In 1994, May 19 was selected by the Greek parliament as the day to commemorate the Pontian Greek Genocide by the Turks. The Pontic Genocide is one of ...

  • The betrayal of the Greek teachers’ strike

    A meeting of the local presidents of Greece's secondary school union, OLME, delivered the final stab in the back on Thursday, scuttling a planned series of strikes during national pre-university Panhellenic Exams.In doing so, the union bureaucracy has delivered a serious blow to the entire Greek working class and strengthened the government and state forces as they impose yet more brutal ...


clear
Athens Weather
22.5°C Clear
Winds: From the WSW at 1.0 MPH Gusting to 7.0 MPH
Sun
clear
27° 20°
Mon
partlycloudy
28° 21°
Tue
clear
28° 20°
Last Updated on May 18, 12:00 PM EEST
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

Movie Review

October Sky

"October Sky" tells the true story of Homer Hickam, a West Virginia teenager who eventually realized his dream of becoming a NASA science engineer. It was a long road to that accomplishment, though, because Homer (Jake Gyllenhaal) grew up in the mining-dominated town of Coalwood in the late fifties, where all the boys either escape on football scholarships or follow their elders' footsteps into th ... ...

On Facebook

More Greek Herald news