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  • 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 ...

  • Greece enters sixth year of recession but prospects improving

    (ATHENS) - Data released last week showed Greece entered its sixth straight year of recession, but there is now cautious optimism about the economy's prospects although unemployment is still hitting record highs and consumers are squeezed by pay cuts and tax hikes.On Tuesday, Greece's battered debt ratings received a rare upgrade from Fitch which noted "clear progress" on ...

  • Top Chinese political advisor meets Greek PM

    Top Chinese political advisor Yu Zhengsheng on Saturday met with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province.The meeting came ahead of the second annual conference of the World Cultural Forum (Taihu, China), which began in Hangzhou on Saturday.Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative ...

  • Greece to buy 142 ships from China

    Greek Shipping Minister Kostis Moussouroulis said in Shanghai Saturday Greek shipowners have recently signed contracts to buy 142 new ships from Chinese shipbuilding ...

  • Greece eyes closer economic ties with China

    Greece pledges deepened cooperation with China with agreements in trade, shipping and tourism, said Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Beijing on ...


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Movie Review

Crazy in Alabama

"Crazy in Alabama" is composed of two distinctly different narratives that run parallel to each other throughout the film, until at the end they are tenuously linked by the theme of "freedom." Either one of these narratives could possibly constitute its own movie. But, for better or worse, "Crazy in Alabama" insists on using both of them and trying to show us how they connect. The fact that the c ... ...

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  • Arts | Long Island Review of Exhibition on Jews in Greece During the Holocaust in Glen Cove

    Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County reflect a vibrant community. But images from the 1940s, of sobbing people on their way to Nazi death camps and of postwar commemorations of the murdered, document a darker ...

  • Eurovision Results Denmark Wins Greece Comes 6th

    Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest – with Greece’s Agathon and Koza Mostra finishing 6th. Greece participated in the competition with the song ';Alcohol is Free,'; s a fusion between electronic dance and rebetiko sounds. The 20-year-old Danish singer won the annual competition with a barefoot performance backed by flutes and drums. ...

  • Samaras Urges Chinese Invest in Greece

    Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, talking to the Hellenic-Chinese business forum in Shanghai, called Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in Greece and to increase their business transactions with Greek entrepreneurs. "Those who invested in Greece's failure were disappointed. We are fighting and we will win the battle, there's no other choice for us. Greece writes its own success ...

  • Crisis not all that bad for Greek mothers

    ATHENS--In a society where family ties traditionally play a prominent role, Greece's deep economic crisis apparently offers a few Greek mothers a reason to be happy. While financial hardship may have forced many to seek their fortune abroad, it has also obliged an increasing number of young people to return to the family nest, where they are fed and provided for by parents often more than ...

  • Police Say Bank Robber Prison Escapee

    Greek police said that they think a second man involved in an armed robbery that netted 1 million euros in Larissa, central Greece, on May 16 is also a fugitive from a Trikala prison break. Authorities said they matched fingerprints found at the scene with those of Klement Kala, one of 11 men who broke out of jail in Trikala, central Greece, in April. Now police believe the other man with him ...

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