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Proceeds will help fund tickets so students can attend performances presented by Choregus Productions, which is sponsoring the Battle event. The company, founded by Ken Tracy, was named for the person who in ancient Greece was responsible for making sure...

Mild alarm was felt recently as the evening�s guest speaker discovered that he had misplaced his notes while preparing to deliver a speech on �Japanese Music Today� at the Athens Concert Hall. All quickly returned to normal when the 79-year...

Even by the standards of Greek tragedy, the story of Philomela is particularly gruesome. Philomela, sister of Procne, was raped by her brother-in-law Tereus, who then cut out her tongue to prevent her revealing his crime. When Philomela eventually managed...

Leanne Shapton's Important Artifacts is ‘pitch perfect: intimate and piercingly true’. Although I do not think of myself as an especially materialistic person, my meagre possessions, like those of most people, maintain a somewhat tenacious hold over me.

Brazilian actress Morena Baccarin (Way Off Broadway), 30, reportedly said: "I like Jivamukti yoga, which is really hard and acrobatic, but there's a lot of meditation too, which is nice." MTV Award winner American model-actress-singer Carmen Electra (Starsky & Hutch),...

At the age of 18, Dionysios Grammenos became the first wind instrument soloist to win the Eurovision Young Musicians Contest. Kathimerini Clarinet soloist Dionysios Grammenos came into the public spotlight for the first time as the boy wonder who earned...

The Athens State Orchestra will present a program of works by Camille Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich at the Athens Concert Hall tonight. The concert is dedicated to violinist Pantelis Despotidis and will start at 8.30 p.m.

Apart from Panos Koutras�s �Strella,� which is currently earning positive reviews at French movie theaters, the French capital is also hosting the 6th Panorama of Contemporary Greek Cinema, which started yesterday and runs to December 8. Jointly organized by the...

For Greek cinema, the shadow of auteur Theo Angelopoulos has cast long over the blue sky of the Cote d'Azur in Cannes. With a minimal presence abroad, Greek film has often relied on the reputable auteur for international recognition.