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The 30th edition of the International Environmental Film Festival (Festival international du film d'environnement, FIFE) began on Feb. 19 gathering filmmakers from around the world to present their work on widely or less known environmental issues, and included a number...

The Karolos Koun Theater Awards 2013 and the Critics Theater and Music Awards for 2012 ceremony was held on Feb.12, at the Athens Concert Hall in the Dimitris Mitropoulos hall. The ceremony was opened by the Mayor of Athens Giorgos...

As part of the 63rd International Film Festival in Berlin the film Before Midnight by Richard Linklater - which was shot entirely in Greece - will be presented as the last piece in a trilogy, following Before Sunrise (1995)...

Extra TV host Maria Menounos is headed to the big screen with her latest project, "Adventures of Serial Buddies." The Greek-American talent not only stars in the film, but she is also on-board as producer. The indie centers on Gregory, a...

Greece, which at one point said it might not be able to afford sending an entrant to the Eurovision contest, will be represented by the anti-austerity ditty Alcohol Is Free, performed by the group Koza Mostra and singer Agathonas...

The port city of Thessaloniki will be organizing and hosting one of the most important and prestigious sports events in October 2014,  winning the 2014 World Coastal Rowing Championships. The decision came from the World Rowing Federation (FISA) delivered during...

The New South Wales government has donated $50,000 to the Greek Orthodox Community to assist in staging the annual 2013 Greek Festival of Sydney. Celebrating the Greek identity and its influence on Australian culture, the event is one of New...

Music has no borders nor language. With Greece struggling with a huge economic crisis, Greek nightclub singers are also trying to cope with those difficult times by giving performances wherever they can find them, and that includes Skopje in...

If you're looking for last minute ideas on how to spend Valentine's Day with your agapi, here's a few films we suggest that will set the scene for a night of love, featuring either beautiful Mediterranean scenery, or Greek...

One of the premier writers of Greek history, Britain's Mark Mazower, told an audience at the American College of Greece that the government is seriously underestimating the threat of the neo-Nazi Golden party becoming a mainstream political force. Golden Dawn,...

Toxic Crisis is a much praised documentary in Greek film festivals directed by filmmaker, researcher and environmentalist Omiros Evangelinos. The director from Mykonos decided to produce a film about the environmental crisis in Greece which he said it has...

Audiences in the United States and around the world will have the opportunity to watch a live webcast of this year’s 18th Annual Kimon Friar Lecture at The American College of Greece, which will be delivered by Columbia University Professor Mark...

The Board of Directors of the American Hellenic Council (AHC) has announced its decision to honor Professor, author and poet Thanasis Maskaleris with the Theodore Saloutos Award for his dedication to the Greek language and literature. Maskaleris is the Founding Director at...

With her talent and appearance, Stefania Rizou charmed both the judges of the biggest talent show in France The Voice, and the French audience as well. The presenter of the show, Greek Nikos Aliagas sat at the piano along...

While a fifth of Greeks have been pushed into poverty by austerity measures he imposed on the orders of international lenders, former Prime Minister George Papandreou will live in a luxury apartment in Manhattan, courtesy of the Ivy League...