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  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • Two cargo ships collide off Greece 10 missing

    ATHENS, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Two cargo ships collided early Monday off southwestern Greece, with 10 crew members missing, the Greek coastguard said. One ship under a Cook Islands flag was seriously damaged and sank, according to the Greece ...

  • Brisbane’s inner-Greek shines till last light

    View all 17 photos Tens of thousands of people have enjoyed the weather, fine food, wine and dance at the 2013 Paniyiri at Brisbane’s Musgrave Park this weekend. 
As the last of the autumn sun began to lose its warmth yesterday there was still sizeable crowd in Musgrave Park in front of the Greek Club at South Brisbane. It included those who are part and parcel of Brisbane’s ...

  • Pro-drachma party launches urging Greece to leave the euro

    A political party in Greece is calling for the country to leave the euro and go back to using the drachma as its national currency. Plan B held its first general meeting in Athens on Saturday and is headed up by the former leader of the left-wing opposition Syriza party. So far, Plan B is a small party with only around 400 members. Describing the party’s stance on leaving the euro, Plan ...

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