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Home and Away actor Ada Nicodemou in rumoured split with husband

FRIENDS and family were rallying around Home and Away actor Ada Nicodemou, who was reported to have separated from her husband. There was no official confirmation of the split, but well-placed sources said Nicodemou and husband Chrys Xipolitas had decided...

Renault’s Mégane Coupe-Concept & N-Dubz A Perfect Match

Renault and N-Dubz have teamed up together in the band's new video for 'Say It's Over' with the car manufacturer supplying the futuristic looking Mégane Coupe-Concept. The Camden-based hip-hop trio N-Dubz is mostly Greek with two of the members being...

JLS Want Peter Andre

JLS want to make pop icon Peter Andre the fifth member of their group. The news comes after the 'One Shot' hitmakers say they get along so well with the Greek singer they would love for him to join them. "He's...

Sasha Grey Takes a Purity Pledge in New Movie

After "The Girlfriend Experience" and "Smash Cut" , the horror film by director Lee Demarbre which hits DVD this week, Sasha Grey has landed another role. The Greek-American actress and porn star is set to play a Christian that...

Greek Folk Music in America, Blue Notes

Greek "rebetes" (folk musicians) of the tri-state area and beyond set the traditional Greek spirit loose in various restaurants, tavernas, special occasions and Greek festivals around the US. Mr. Achilleas Papaefthemiou, quoted as the "nightingale of the Greek Diaspora in...

Greek Independence Day Celebrations in Sydney

March 25 is the anniversary of Greece’s struggle for Independence in 1821 after some 400 years of Ottoman occupation. The Inter-Communities Council of NSW of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is organizing a large-scale celebration in honour of Greece's...

Dimitri Vorris Set to Direct “Land of The Angels”

Independent production company Metaphor Entertainment, LLC today announced plans to produce "Land of The Angels," a film depicting the termination of Salonica, Greece's Sephardic Jewish population and the Sonderkommando uprising at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in which 135 Salonica...

Famagusta’s "Sad Story" Presented in New York

Last month, members of the Greek Cypriot and Greek American community of all generations and ages, including an impressive number of people from the general audience packed the Stathakion Cultural Center in Astoria, Queens in response to CYPRECO’s invitation...

Nick’s moment of musical exhilaration

Local double bass player and modern art music composer Nick Tsiavos returns to the stage with the first of a two part concert series entitled Is this what you believe? Tsiavos will be joined at the Forty Five Downstairs by...

Greek Student Film Festival in Victoria

A new institution for Greek students in Victoria is being born. It is the student film festival, bringing together classes or groups of students, or individual students, from different schools that teach the Greek language. It is each teacher's...

Exhibit of Greek Antiquities in Belgrade

The national Museum of Belgrade in cooperation with cultural centers of the European Union (Greek Cultural Institute, Italian Institute, French Institute, Goethe Institute and the Austrian Cultural Forum), along with the embassy of Turkey and Belgium, are organizing the...

Victorians to pay $250,000 to film drama based on Snowtown Greek Murders

The Herald Sun reported that Victorians will pay almost $250,000 to bring one of the worst serial killings in our history to the big screen. Filming of the multi-million-dollar movie adaptation of the Snowtown murders, partly financed by the Victorian...

Justine Cotsonas Shares The Big Screen with Keira Knightly & Eva Mendez

The sexy Greek-American New Yorker, Justine Cotsonas first appeared on the cast of As The World Turns for the role of Sophie Duran. The 24 year old studied acting at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her big...

Julia Roberts Starring in Tom Hanks and Nia Vardalos Film

Tom Hanks is keeping it Greek.  He is working on another project with Nia Vardalos. The new movie is a comedy called Larry Crowne starring Julia Roberts and is about a middle-aged man who is looking to reinvent himself....

Stratton Leopold Co-Produces Wolfman

The Greek-American film producer, Stratton Leopold is on board as co-producer for Wolfman, a remake of the 1941 classic horror film. The Executive Vice President of Production at Paramount Pictures was born in Savannah, GA where he owns and...