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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 to buy 142 ships from China

    Greek Shipping Minister Kostis Moussouroulis said here Saturday Greek shipowners have recently signed contracts to buy 142 new ships from Chinese shipbuilding companies.The orders, which were signed in April, accounted for more than 60 percent of the recent global orders of Greek shipowners, said the Greek official.The shipping industry, including shipbuilding, is one of the most important ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • Greece’s Muslims Cite “Slaughter” Threat

    The Muslim Association of Greece (MAG) said that it has received a threatening note giving all Muslims, Greeks and foreigners, one month's time to evacuate the country or be ';slaughtered like chickens,'; according to a statement released by the association on May 18. The note, published on the association’s webpage, is written in Greek, English and Arabic and the Golden ...

  • No damage or injuries as bomb explodes close to Greek embassy in Libya

    A bomb went of on the street where the Greek embassy in Tripoli, Libya, is located but the building was not damaged and there were no injuries, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday."This lunchtime an small explosive device that had been placed next to a car parked on the road where the embassies of Greece, Saudi Arabia and Algeria are located ...

  • As visit to China concludes Samaras offers incentives to invest in Greece

    Any Chinese person investing more than 250,000 euros in real estate in Greece will be given a five-year residence permit without having to fulfill any other criteria, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a business conference in Shanghai on Saturday.The Greek government also aims to offer bigger investors Greek citizenship in a bid to attract investment from China. ...

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