East Coast

Parishioners of the Holy Cross Church in Whitestone, Queens attended the opening of the community’s new church on Sunday, December 13 th . The inauguration was performed by the Archbishop of America, Demetrios, who had symbolically laid the church’s...

Orange High School graduate George Stephanopoulos is the new co-anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America." He starts Monday. The appointment was widely reported by several media outlets this morning, and ABC is expected to make an official announcement this afternoon. Diane...

The Archbishop of Crete, Irinaios is visiting the omogeneia of NY this week, on the occasion of the major event for the inauguration of the El Greco exhibit at the Onassis Culural Center in NY. During is stay thus far,...

The Association of Magnesia Prefecture held an event in honour of “the Saint” of modern Greek Letters at Stathakeio Cultural Centre. The event was carried out in cooperation with the Hellenic Federation of Greater New York and was attended...

Greek solar manufacturer HelioSphera will build a new photovoltaics module factory in Philadelphia’s historic Navy Yard mixed-use complex. Work on the 160-MW production plant is scheduled to begin next year. “The plan is for the construction start to...

A Greek immigrant family has resumed a quarter-century tradition by hosting a free Thanksgiving dinner at its restaurant near Cleveland. Michael's Family Restaurant (Michael Petrakis, and his wife Anna) in Rocky River prepared 2,500 pounds of turkey Thursday for the...

Drexel University has broken ground for a new science building named for its late president. The $70 million Constantine Papadakis(foto) Integrated Sciences Building at 33rd and Chestnut in Philadelphia is expected to be done in spring of 2011. Drexel Provost...

The literary friendship of the English writer, E.M. Forster and Greek poet Constantine Cavafy – as described in the book, "Forster - Cavafy Letters, Friends at a Slight Angle", was presented at the Greek Consulate in Boston during a...

A new novel by author Ioustini Gragouli-Argyri titled “For the love of others” (Psyhogios publications) was recently presented in Athens’ King George Palace Hotel. Present at the event were, from New York, her son of the book heroine, John...

A revolutionary picture concerning the movement fo the Solar Syatem in the Galaxy and the powers created is presented by expatriate Academic, Stamatis Krimizis with his associates of the Applied Sciences Laboratory at John Hopkins University. The related study...