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  • Greek Prime Minister seeks to woo Chinese investors

    Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras invited Chinese enterprises over the weekend at a business forum attracting them to invest in Greece and join the country's long-delayed privatization program, amid cautious optimism about Greek economic prospects.Antonis Samaras noted that 28 projects of his country's privatization program, which cover key areas like airport and port construction, ...

  • Salamina Tavern Explosion Injures 13

    An explosion rocked a cafe on the island of Salamina, near Pireaus shortly before 10 a.m. on May 19, injuring 13 people. The tavern was closed and a memorial service was taking place in the Church of Aghios Dimitrios across the street. The explosion caused serious damage to the tavern as well as to the nearby buildings and cars. According to the local authorities, two people were seriously ...

  • New York Pontians Remember The Genocide

    NEW YORK - The Pontian Genocide is one of the most painful moments in Hellenic history, yet for most of the past 100 years knowledge of the catastrophe has been locked up in the hearts of its victims and in dark archives, sealed away both by governments motivated by expediency and parents wishing to spare their children. Events such as the commemoration held under the auspices of the Consulate ...

  • Golden Dawn Wreath Laying Causes Clash

    Skirmishes erupted between members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and leftist supporters in the western Greek town of Agrinio when a lawmaker from the extremists, Kostas Barbarousis stepped forward to lay a wreath at a Pontian Genocide memorial during a commemoration ceremony. A number of people had gathered in Ayios Konstantinos to the 94th anniversary of the genocide, including the city ...

  • Open Call for Greek Designers

    The Hellenic Industrial Property Organization in cooperation with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market has organized an exhibition entitled Greek Design=Good Design which aims to show and promote the Greek design. For this purpose the Hellenic Industrial Property Organization invites all interested artists-designers to submit their creations to participate in the exhibition, ...


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The Beales of Grey Gardens [DVD]

The Beales of Grey Gardens [DVD]

When the Direct Cinema pioneers Albert and David Maysles took their 16mm cameras into the decaying East Hampton mansion known as Grey Gardens to document the wonderfully strange lives of 79-year-old Edith Bouvier Beale and her 56-year-old daughter Little Edie Beale ... ...

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  • Dr. Daskalakis Meningitis Vaccines For Gay Men

    (Danny Ghitis for The New York Times) Demetre Daskalakis, a doctor and gay activist, at Paddles in Chelsea, preparing equipment to vaccinate gay men against a deadly new strain of bacterial meningitis. NEW YORK - At around 4 on a Saturday morning, a time when most of the gay bars in New York have closed and locked their doors, a steady stream of young and middle-aged men, almost all shirtless ...

  • Greece to sell Postbank Proton in July stress-test big banks

    ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's bank rescue fund will aim to sell Hellenic Postbank and Proton by mid-July with big banks continuing to absorb small lenders as part of plans to revive the battered sector, the country's foreign lenders said in an inspection ...

  • Crisis Not So Bad For Some Greek Moms

    Doting Greek mothers are legendary. They love to keep their children, especially the boys, at home as long as they can, even as the offspring grow into adults. During the country's crushing economic crisis, this one followed her protesting son outside the Parliament to make sure he wouldn't catch cold, and now more adult children are returning home to the nest for free rent, home ...

  • Crisis Pushes Greeks Back To Mommy

    Greece’s crushing economic crisis, which has created record unemployment and hardship, is helping out moms who don’t want their adult children straying too far from home. Unable to make it on their own, many of the country’s young, with unemployment for those under 25 at 64 percent, are perfectly content to come back to the parent’s nest and let their mothers care for ...

  • SYRIZA New Democracy Clash Over Golden Dawn

    SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras Greece’s main political parties continue to be befuddled on how to deal with the rising influence of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, with Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative party leader Antonis Samaras’ government backing off an anti-racism bill and saying that the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) has ';many ...

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