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Holding a tray full of glasses and a bottle of drink, waiters from all over Greece and other European countries ran a service -race on the morning of May 27. The race started from the Temple of Olympian Zeus and...

The sale of the late tycoon Aristotle Onassis' private island of Skorpios by his granddaughter Athina to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who reportedly bought it for his daughter Ekaterina, will be reviewed by the Greek Council of State to...

"A Green Story" cast and crew celebrated the film's much-anticipated theatrical release with a party in the heart of Hollywood. The star-studded event took place at Madame Tussauds on May 24, 2013 in Hollywood, CA. Among the attendees of the event were actors Ed...

Greek-French actress Adele Exarchopoulos was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes film festival for her role in the film Blue is the Warmest Colour (original title: La Vie d’ Adele). This year the jury  was headed by...

Thousands of runners and their supporters have completed the final mile of Boston Marathon, five weeks after they were interrupted when two bombs exploded near the finishing line on April 15. Three were killed and more than 260 were...

The Greek winery Andreas Dourakis of Chania, Crete was named number two in the London International Wine Fair 2013, among 14,362 entries. The International Wine Fair took place in London on May 20-22 and on May 20, the jury’s president...

For more than 600 years the ancient theater of Messene had hosted cultural and political events attended by major historical figures of the time, such as King Philip V of Macedonia and the Achean skilled general Philopoemen of Megalopolis....

Greek Reporter spoke with Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and director Richard Linklater about their experiences filming "Before Midnight," and why they decided to choose Greece as the backdrop for the third (and hopefully not final) film in the "Before" series. ymu0pPl8REA Jesse...

The Department of Philology (Division of Classics) of the University of Crete in Greece is organizing the seventh Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel (RICAN) on May 27-28. The conference includes four sessions and will be hosted in the...

On May 28, celebrated Greek singer Nana Mouskouri, who lives in Switzerland, is scheduled to receive the National Honor of Quebec from the Premier of the  city, Pauline Marois, for humanitarian work as well as her  career. Mouskouri is...

The Central European University (CEU) and in particular the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) conducted the conference Post-Byzantine Art: Orthodox Christian Art in a Non-Byzantine” World? on May 15-16. The fall of the Byzantine Empire meant the end of...

A special event was held on May 23 at the Grove of Nautical Tradition, at Flisvos Marina, to honor the Naval Movement and the Mutiny of the destroyer Velos. The President of the Parliament, Evangelos Meimarakis, and the political...

For the first time in the history of the Greek theater, the audience will have the opportunity to watch the theatrical adaptation of The Iliad of Homer. In the Athens Festival, the contemporary adaptation of the Iliad  directed by Stathis...

The two Greek Orthodox churches located in the historical Greek Community in the center of Vienna, the church of the Holy Trinity and Saint George, will participate in 2013 Long Night of Churches (Lange Nacht der Kirchen). It is...

Many Australian politicians attended the two-day Paniyiri Greek Festival, an event that hosted over 50,000 people, the vast majority of whom were non-Greeks, and stood as the best advertisement for Greece. The Premier of Queensland, Campbell Newman, served the guests...